Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) was a franchise cricket team based in Pune, Maharashtra, India, which played in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2016 and 2017. It was one of eight teams which competed in the 2017 Indian Premier League. The team was captained for the season by Steve Smith and coached by Stephen Fleming. They lost the final to Mumbai Indians by 1 run in what was to be the team's last match.
Pre-season Steve Smith replaced MS Dhoni as the team's captain before the start of the season. The franchise changed its name to Rising Pune Supergiant, removing the 's', on 26 March 2017.
Player acquisition
The player auction for the 2017 season was held on 20 February in Bangalore. Rising Pune Supergiant bought the following players at the auction:
Ben Stokes Jaydev Unadkat Rahul Chahar Saurabh Kumar Milind Tandon Daniel Christian Rahul Tripathi Manoj Tiwary Lockie Ferguson
The first trading window was open in December 2016 while the second trading window was open from 13 to 20 January 2017. The following transfers were made by Rising Pune Supergiant during the trading windows:
Mayank Agarwal from Delhi Daredevils Shardul Thakur from Kings XI Punjab
Squad Players with international caps are listed in bold No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Year signed Salary Notes Batsmen 3 Ajinkya Rahane Right-handed Right-arm medium 2016 13 Faf du Plessis Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2016 Overseas 22 Mayank Agarwal Right-handed Right-arm off break 2017 45 Manoj Tiwary Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly 2017 49 Steve Smith Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2016 Captain/Overseas 52 Rahul Tripathi Right-handed Right-arm medium 2017 100 Usman Khawaja Left-handed Right-arm medium 2016 Overseas All-rounders 5 Baba Aparajith Right-handed Right-arm off break 2016 18 Ankit Sharma Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2016 25 Mitchell Marsh Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2016 Overseas 29 Rajat Bhatia Right-handed Right-arm medium 2016 54 Daniel Christian Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2017 Overseas 55 Ben Stokes Left-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2017 Overseas 555 Washington Sundar Left-handed Right-arm off break 2017 Replacement signing Wicket-keepers 7 MS Dhoni Right-handed Right-arm medium 2016 27 Ankush Bains Right-handed 2016 Milind Tandon Right-handed 2017 Bowlers 1 Rahul Chahar Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly 2017 9 Deepak Chahar Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2016 10 Shardul Thakur Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2017 11 Ashok Dinda Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2016 63 Adam Zampa Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly 2016 Overseas 69 Lockie Ferguson Right-handed Right-arm fast 2017 Overseas 77 Jaydev Unadkat Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2017 99 Ravichandran Ashwin Right-handed Right-arm off break 2016 999 Imran Tahir Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly 2017 Replacement signing Overseas Ishwar Pandey Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2016 Jaskaran Singh Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2016 Saurabh Kumar Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2017
League stage No.Date Opponent Venue Result Man of the Match Scorecard1 Mumbai Indians Pune Won by 7 wickets Steve Smith 84*(54) Scorecard2 Kings XI Punjab Indore Lost by 6 wickets Scorecard3 Delhi Daredevils Pune Lost by 97 runs Scorecard4 Gujarat Lions Rajkot Lost by 7 wickets Scorecard5 Royal Challengers Bangalore Banaglore Won by 27 runs Ben Stokes 3/18 (4 overs) Scorecard6 Sunrisers Hyderabad Pune Won by 6 wickets MS Dhoni 61*(34) Scorecard7 Mumbai Indians Mumbai Won by 3 runs Ben Stokes 2/21 (4 overs) Scorecard8 Kolkata Knight Riders Pune Lost by 7 wickets Scorecard9 Royal Challengers Bangalore Pune Won by 61 runs Lockie Ferguson 2/7 (4 overs) Scorecard10 Gujarat Lions Pune Won by 5 wickets Ben Stokes 103*(63) Scorecard11 Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata Won by 4 wickets Rahul Tripathi 93(52) Scorecard12 Sunrisers Hyderabad Hyderabad Won by 12 runs Jaydev Unadkat 5/30 (4 overs) Scorecard13 Delhi Daredevils Delhi Lost by 7 runs Scorecard14 Kings XI Punjab Pune Won by 9 wickets Jaydev Unadkat 2/12 (3 overs) Scorecard League stage record of 9–5; second in points table; qualified for playoffs
Play-offs Qualifier 1
Final
Statistics
Most runs
Player Runs Steve Smith 15 15 3 472 39.33 121.96 84* 0 3 38 12 Rahul Tripathi 14 14 0 391 27.92 146.44 93 0 2 43 17 Ajinkya Rahane 16 16 1 382 25.46 118.26 60 0 2 35 9 Manoj Tiwary 15 13 3 324 32.40 137.28 60 0 2 31 11 Ben Stokes 12 11 1 316 31.60 142.98 103* 1 1 22 15
Source: ESPNcricinfo
Most wickets
Player Jaydev Unadkat 12 12 24 5/30 13.41 7.02 11.4 0 1 Imran Tahir 12 12 18 3/18 20.50 7.85 15.6 0 0 Ben Stokes 12 12 12 3/18 26.33 7.18 22.0 0 0 Daniel Christian 13 13 11 2/10 27.09 7.45 21.8 0 0 Shardul Thakur 12 12 11 3/19 28.63 8.25 20.8 0 0
Source: ESPNcricinfo
References
External links Official Website