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 Indian Premier League 2015 is the eighth season that started on 8th April 2015 with the opening ceremony at Eden Gardens Stadium.
Indian Premier League 2015 runs until the final on 24th May 2015. There has been a fresh auction of players among teams of Indian Premier League. This season had to be adjusted around a week late than every year because of the tight scheduling of teams due to the 2015 Cricket World Cup, where Australia won the finals against New Zealand Cricket Team. Mumbai Indians won the tournament for the second time, defeating Chennai Super Kings by 41 runs in the final at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on 24 May 2015. Captain Rohit Sharma was the player of the match scoring a rapid 50 off just 26 balls.
The 2015 season of the Indian Premier League, which is abbreviated as IPL 8 or Pepsi IPL 2015, is the eighth season of the Indian Premier League. Kolkata Knight Riders are the defending champions having won the title in the 2014 season of IPL.
The complete tournament of Indian Premier League 2015 held across different cities in India unlike the previous season of 2014 Indian Premier League.
The tournament of Indian Premier League 2015 started on Wednesday, 8th April 2015 after the end of the 2015 Cricket World Cup. The tournament ended on 24 May 2015.
A total of 60 T20 matches was held in the entire tournament. There were no matches in Kolkata between April 12, 2015 and April 25, 2015 due to Kolkata Municipal Elections and the Corporation Elections.
The franchises retained 123 players 8th Indian Premier League 2015 season before moving into auction. The released players provided an option to register themselves for auction. The six players were transferred across teams before the auction took place.
In the Pepsi Indian Premier League 2015, the auction held on February 16 at Bengaluru, Yuvraj Singh was sold to Delhi Daredevils for 16 crores of rupees, for a record bid in Indian Premier League 2015 auction history. A total of 67 players were sold out in the auction and all franchises spent total of 87.60 Crores to buy players.
The season of Indian Premier League 2015 saw 26 match officials. The 13 Indian umpires and four match referees who were officiating. The twenty six match officials (Umpires and Referees) participated in a two-day workshop, organised by the Board of Cricket Council of India, in preparation for the upcoming Pepsi IPL season. The workshop on Indian Premier League 2015 was held at the Cricket Centre, Mumbai, on 4th and 5th April 2015, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Teams of Indian Premier League 2015
| Teams and the Players of IPL 2015 |
| Chennai Super Kings |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni |
| Ravindra Jadeja (Retained Player) |
| Ravichandran Ashwin (Retained Player) |
| Dwayne Bravo (Retained Player) |
| Suresh Raina (Retained Player) |
| Faf Du Plessis |
| Dwayne Smith |
| Brendon McCullum |
| Ashish Nehra |
| Mohit Sharma |
| Ishwar Chandra Pandey |
| Samuel Badree |
| Matt Henry |
| Mithun Manhas |
| Ronit More |
| Baba Aparajith |
| Pawan Negi |
| Michael Hussey |
| Rahul Sharma |
| Kyle Abbott |
| Irfan Pathan |
| Pratyush Singh |
| Ankush Bains |
| Eklavya Dwivedi |
| Andrew Tye |
| Chennai Super Kings (Released Players):David Hussey, Ben Hilfenhaus, John Hastings, Vijay Shankar. |
| Rajasthan Royals |
| Shane Watson (Retained Player) |
| James Faulkner (Retained Player) |
| Stuart Binny (Retained Player) |
| Ajinkya Rahane (Retained Player) |
| Sanju Samson (Retained Player) |
| Steven Smith |
| Rajat Bhatia |
| Tim Southee |
| Dhawal Kulkarni |
| Abhishek Nayar |
| Kane Richardson |
| Ben Cutting |
| Karun Nair |
| Unmukt Chand |
| Iqbal Abdullah |
| Deepak Hooda |
| Dishant Yagnik |
| Kevon Cooper |
| Vikramjeet Malik |
| Ankit Nagendra Sharma |
| Rahul Tewatia |
| Pravin Tambe |
| Chris Morris |
| Juan Theron |
| Barinder Singh Saran |
| Dinesh Salunkhe |
| Sagar Trivedi |
| Pardeep Sahu |
| Rajasthan Royals (Released Players): Amit Mishra, Ankush Bains, Brad Hodge. |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| Shikhar Dhawan (Retained Player) |
| Dale Steyn (Retained Player) |
| David Warner |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar |
| Karn Sharma |
| Ishant Sharma |
| Moises Henriques |
| KL Rahul |
| Parveez Rasool |
| Naman Ojha |
| Ashish Reddy |
| Ricky Bhui |
| Chama Milind |
| Kevin Pietersen |
| Eoin Morgan |
| Kane Williamson |
| Ravi Bopara |
| Laxmi Ratan Shukla |
| Praveen Kumar |
| Trent Boult |
| Hanuma Vihari |
| Prasanth Padmanabha |
| Siddarth Kaul |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad (Released Players): Aaron Finch, Amit Mishra, Amit Paunikar, Brendan Taylor, Darren Sammy, Irfan Pathan, Jason Holder, Manprit Juneja, Prasanth Parameswaran, Srikkanth Anirudha, Venugopal Rao. |
| Mumbai Indians |
| Rohit Sharma (Retained Player) |
| Lasith Malinga (Retained Player) |
| Harbhajan Singh (Retained Player) |
| Ambati Rayudu (Retained Player) |
| Kieron Pollard (Retained Player) |
| Corey Anderson |
| Aditya Tare |
| Jasprit Bumrah |
| Josh Hazlewood |
| Marchant De Lange |
| Pawan Suyal |
| Shreyas Gopal |
| Aaron Finch |
| Pragyan Ojha |
| Mitchell McClenaghan |
| Akshay Wakhare |
| Aiden Blizzard |
| Hardik Pandya |
| Siddhesh Lad |
| J Suchith |
| Nitish Rana |
| Abhimanyu Mithun |
| Mumbai Indians (Released Players): Michael Hussey, Praveen Kumar, Ben Dunk, Pragyan Ojha, Jalaj Saxena, Krismar Santokie, Sushant Marathe, Apoorv Wankhade, Zaheer Khan, C.M. Gautam. |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| Virat Kohli (Retained Player) |
| Chris Gayle (Retained Player) |
| AB De Villiers (Retained Player) |
| Mitchell Starc |
| Varun Aaron |
| Ashok Dinda |
| Parthiv Patel |
| Nic Maddinson |
| Harshal Patel |
| Vijay Zol |
| Abu Nechim Ahmed |
| Sandeep Warrier |
| Yogesh Takawale |
| Yuzvendra Singh Chahal |
| Dinesh Karthik |
| Subramaniam Badrinath |
| Darren Sammy |
| Sean Abbott |
| Adam Milne |
| David Wiese |
| Jalaj Saxena |
| Sarfaraz Naushad Khan |
| Shishir Bhavane |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore (Released Players): Albie Morkel, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ravi Rampaul, Sachin Rana, Shadab Jakati, Tanmay Mishra, Yuvraj Singh. |
| Kolkata Knight Riders |
| Gautam Gambhir (Retained Player) |
| Sunil Narine (Retained Player) |
| Robin Uthappa |
| Piyush Chawla |
| Yusuf Pathan |
| Shakib Al Hasan |
| Morne Morkel |
| Vinay Kumar |
| Umesh Yadav |
| Manish Pandey |
| Chris Lynn |
| Patrick Cummins |
| Ryan Ten Doeschate |
| Suryakumar Yadav |
| Andre Russell |
| Manvinder Bisla |
| Veer Pratap Singh |
| Kuldeep Singh Yadav |
| James Neesham |
| Brad Hogg |
| Aditya Garhwal |
| Sumit Narwal |
| KC Cariappa |
| Vaibhav Rawal |
| Sheldon Jackson |
| Kolkata Knight Riders (Released Players): Debabrata Das, Sayan Sekhar Mandal, Jacques Kallis. |
| Kings XI Punjab |
| Manan Vohra (Retained Player) |
| David Miller (Retained Player) |
| Mitchell Johnson |
| Glenn Maxwell |
| George Bailey |
| Virender Sehwag |
| Rishi Dhawan |
| Wriddhiman Saha |
| Shaun Marsh |
| Beuran Hendricks |
| Thisara Perera |
| Gurkirat Singh Mann |
| Sandeep Sharma |
| Mandeep Hardev Singh |
| Akshar Rajesh Patel |
| Parvinder Awana |
| Shardul Narendra Thakur |
| Anureet Singh |
| Shivam Sharma |
| Karanveer Singh |
| Murali Vijay |
| Nikhil Naik |
| Yogesh Golwalkar |
| Kings XI Punjab (Released Players): Cheteshwar Pujara, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Murali Kartik. |
| Delhi Daredevils |
| Mohammed Shami |
| Nathan Coulter-Nile |
| Quinton De Kock |
| Manoj Tiwary |
| Jean-Paul Duminy |
| Kedar Jadhav |
| Mayank Agarwal |
| Shahbaz Nadeem |
| Saurabh Tiwary |
| Jayant Yadav |
| Milind Kumar |
| Angelo Mathews |
| Yuvraj Singh |
| Amit Mishra |
| Jaydev Unadkat |
| Gurinder Sandhu |
| Shreyas Iyer |
| CM Gautam |
| Dominic Muthuswamy |
| Albie Morkel |
| Travis Head |
| Marcus Stoinis |
| Kona Srikar Bharat |
| KK Jiyaz |
| Zaheer Khan |
| Delhi Daredevils (Released Players): Dinesh Karthik, HS Sharath, James Neesham, Jaydev Unadkat, Kevin Pietersen, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Milind Kumar, Murali Vijay, Rahul Sharma, Rahul Shukla, Ross Taylor, Siddarth Kaul, Wayne Parnell. |
(Last Updated on : 17-06-2015)
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