IPL 2017 : Rising Pune Supergiants (RPS) is one of the best IPL team and they have world best player squad to hold the T20 cup. Rising Pune Supergiants (RPS) was introduced as a team replacement of the suspended teams Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals for two years.
RPS Team has played their first ever IPL T20 in 2016 and now they set to compete in this 2017 Indian Premier League season.
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni led the RPS team in their first season of IPLT20 and the team did not expose their strength and not perform well. They reached bottom of the points table in the 2016 IPL season. So now they are planning to show their ability with their forcing team squad.This time Steven Smith from Australia lead as a captain.
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In the Rising Pune Supergiants team former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming was appointed as the head coach of RPS for this season 2017. Stephen Fleming was the coach of Chennai team for the last season 2015,2014 etc….Rising Pune team picks total of 5 players from Chennai Super Kings(CSK) and Rajasthan Royals(RR) in the players squad.Team consists of retain players MS Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, Steve Smith, Faf du Plessis and Ravichandran Ashwin.
Below is the List of players of the Rising Pune Supergiants Team for vivo IPL 2017.
Player | Country | Role |
Steve Smith (Captain) | Australia | Batsman |
Mayank Agarwal | India | Batsman |
MS Dhoni | India | Wicket-keeper/Batsman |
Ajinkya Rahane | India | Batsman |
Faf Du Plessis | South Africa | Batsman |
Ravichandran Ashwin | India | Bowler |
Imran Tahir | South Africa | Bowler |
Ankit Sharma | India | All-rounder |
Rajat Bhatia | India | All-rounder |
Ashok Dinda | India | Bowler |
Shardul Thakur | India | Bowler |
Adam Zampa | Australia | Bowler |
Deepak Chahar | India | All-rounder |
Ben Stokes | England | All-rounder |
Baba Aparajith | India | All-rounder |
Ankush Bains | India | Wicket-keeper |
Jaskaran Singh | India | Bowler |
Usman Khawaja | Australia | Batsman |
Daniel Chirstian | Australia | All-rounder |
Manoj Tiwary | India | Batsman |
Lockie Ferguson | New Zealand | Bowler |
Jaydev Unadkat | India | Bowler |
Ishwar Pandey | India | Bowler |
Rahul Chahar | India | Bowler |
Saurabh Kumar | India | Bowler |
Rahul Ajay Tripathi | India | All-rounder |
Milind Tondon | India | All-rounder |
Rising Pune Supergiants Official Informations :
Owner : RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group
Captain : Steve Smith
Home Ground : Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium
Head Coach : Stephen Fleming
Bowling Coach : Eric Simons