Tuesday, 26 January 2016

IPL 2015

The 2015 season of the Indian Premier League, abbreviated as IPL 8 or Pepsi IPL 2015, was the eighth season of the IPL, 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 Salt Lake Stadium 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 in the Final at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, Mumbai Indians won the tournament by defeating Chennai Super Kings by 41 runs 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 Knight Riders was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the season.



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


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.


Venues

12 venues were selected to host the league stage matches.[4] Mumbai, Pune and Ranchi hosted Qualifier 1, Eliminator and Qualifier 2 respectively and Kolkata hosted the Final.[5]
Group Stage
Ahmedabad Bangalore Chennai Delhi
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 [6] Capacity: 36,760 [7] Capacity: 37,220 Capacity: 55,000
Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium Ahmedabad.jpg MChinnaswamy-Stadium.jpg MAC Chepauk stadium.jpg Firoze shah.jpg
Hyderabad Kolkata
Sunrisers Hyderabad Kolkata Knight Riders
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium Eden Gardens
Capacity: 55,000 Capacity: 67,000[8]
Uppal stadium.jpg Eden gardens ipl 2011.jpg
Mohali Mumbai
Kings XI Punjab Mumbai Indians
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium Wankhede Stadium
Capacity: 40,000 Capacity: 33,320
PCA Stadium, Mohali 1.jpg Wankhede Stadium Feb2011.jpg
Mumbai Pune Raipur Vishakhapatnam
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
Brabourne.jpg Sahara Stadium Pune 4.jpg Raipur Stadium.JPG Vizagacavdca.jpg
Playoffs
Kolkata Mumbai
Final Qualifier 1
Eden Gardens Wankhede Stadium
Capacity: 67,000 Capacity: 33,320
Eden gardens ipl 2011.jpg Wankhede Stadium Feb2011.jpg
Pune Ranchi
Elimi
nator Qualifier 2
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium JSCA International Cricket Stadium
Capacity: 36,000 Capacity: 39,000
Sahara Stadium Pune 4.jpg JSCA cricket stadium Entrance.jpg




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