2015 Indian Premier League

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The 2015 Indian Premier League season (also known as IPL 8 or, for sponsorship reasons, Pepsi IPL 2015) was the eighth season of the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 cricket league established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The tournament featured eight teams and was held from 8 April 2015 to 24 May 2015. The tournament's opening ceremony was held at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on 7 April 2015. Kolkata Knight Riders were the defending champions having won the title in the 2014 season.

On 24 May 2015, Mumbai Indians defeated Chennai Super Kings by 41 runs in the final at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, to win the IPL title for the second time. Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma was awarded player of the match in the final for his knock of 50 from 26 balls. Andre Russell of the Kolkata Knight Riders was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the season. This was the last time that SONY SIX broadcast the tournament before Star Sports Network took the broadcasting rights from the 8th season and are currently bearing the broadcasting rights for the tournament.

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Players auction The eight franchises retained a total of 123 players for the 2015 IPL season before moving into the auction. The released players were provided an option to register themselves for auction. Six players were traded across teams before the auction took place. At the 2015 IPL auction held on 16 February at Bangalore, Yuvraj Singh was sold to Delhi Daredevils for 16 crore, a record bid in IPL auction history. A total of 67 players were sold out in the auction and the franchises spent a total of 87.60 crore to buy the players.

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Officials The 2015 IPL season saw 26 match officials, 13 Indian umpires and four match referees officiating. 26 match officials (umpires and referees) participated in a two-day workshop, organised by the BCCI, in preparation for the 2015 IPL season. The workshop was held at the Cricket Centre, Mumbai, on 4 and 5 April 2015, from 9am to 5pm.

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Venues 12 venues were selected to host the league stage matches. Mumbai, Pune and Ranchi hosted Qualifier 1, Eliminator and Qualifier 2 respectively and Kolkata hosted the Final.

Group stage

Rajasthan Royals	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Chennai Super Kings	Delhi Daredevils
Sardar Patel Stadium	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium	Feroz Shah Kotla
Capacity: 54,000	Capacity: 36,760	Capacity: 37,220	Capacity: 55,000
Sunrisers Hyderabad	Kolkata Knight Riders
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium	Eden Gardens
Capacity: 55,000	Capacity: 67,000
Kings XI Punjab	Mumbai Indians
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	Wankhede Stadium
Capacity: 40,000	Capacity: 33,320
Rajasthan Royals	Kings XI Punjab	Delhi Daredevils	Sunrisers Hyderabad
Brabourne Stadium	Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium	Raipur International Cricket Stadium	ACA-VDCA Stadium
Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 36,000	Capacity: 50,000	Capacity: 38,000

Playoffs

Final	Qualifier 1
Eden Gardens	Wankhede Stadium
Capacity: 67,000	Capacity: 33,320
Eliminator	Qualifier 2
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium	JSCA International Cricket Stadium
Capacity: 36,000	Capacity: 39,000

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IPL Fanpark initiative BCCI started a new initiative IPL Fanpark to spread the reach of IPL across the country. As a part of the initiative, IPL was made available in the stadiums across 15 cities, apart from the 12 venues hosting the matches, on a large screen. The access to these stadiums was free and based on first-come first-served basis.

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Opening ceremony The opening ceremony was held at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, on 7 April 2015. The captains of all eight teams signed the "MCC Spirit of Cricket" pledge. The ceremony featured live performances of Hrithik Roshan, Anushka Sharma, Farhan Akhtar, Shahid Kapoor among others. The ceremony began after a one and a half hours delay due to rain.

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Teams and standings

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Points table

• Top 4 teams were qualified for the playoffs
• advanced to the Qualifier
• advanced to the Eliminator

("C" refers to the "Champions" of the Tournament. 'R'(2nd Position), '3' and '4' are the positions of the respective teams in the tournament.)

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League stage

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Matches

• The 20 wides bowled during the match are a record in the IPL

• The 13 wides bowled by Rajasthan is record in a single innings in the IPL

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Playoff stage

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Preliminary

Qualifier 1

Eliminator

Qualifier 2

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Final

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Statistics

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Most runs

David Warner
Lendl Simmons
Ajinkya Rahane	not out
AB de Villiers	not out
Virat Kohli	not out

• The player with the most runs at the end of the tournament received the Orange Cap.

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Most wickets

Dwayne Bravo	3/22
Lasith Malinga	4/23
Yuzvendra Chahal	3/40
Ashish Nehra	4/10
Mitchell Starc	4/15

• The player with the most wickets at the end of the tournament received the Purple Cap.

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Most catches

Dwayne Bravo	13
Ravindra Jadeja	13
Suresh Raina	11
Ambati Rayudu	9
Kieron Pollard	9

• Source: ESPNcricinfo

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External links

• Tournament website on ESPNcricinfo

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