in 2015, before the players' auction, chennai super kings gave away ben hilfenhaus, john hastings, vijay shankar and david hussey. at the auction they bought back michael hussey for a price of rs.1.5 crores. they also bought kyle abbott, irfan pathan, andrew tye, eklavya dwivedi, ankush bains, pratyush singh and rahul sharma. in the final, they lost against mumbai.