Rising Pune Supergiants
The Rising Pune Supergiants (RPS)/(RPSG) are a franchise cricket team based in Pune, Maharashtra, India that plays in the Indian Premier League starting 2016. The team along with Gujarat Lions will feature as two-season replacements for Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, who are suspended for two seasons due to the involvement in illegal betting by their respective owners. The franchise is owned by Sanjiv Goenka-led New Rising.[1] The team name was announced on 18 January 2016 by Goenka in Kolkata and Raghu Iyer was appointed CEO.[2]
Home ground
The Rising Pune Supergiants' home ground is the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. However, controversies arose over holding 2016 IPL games in Maharashtra due to water usage of the cricket stadiums during severe drought and the Bombay High Court ordered all matches in May to be shifted out of the state.[3] On 15 April 2016, it was reported that the Rising Pune Supergiants were considering the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Vishakhapatnam as an alternate home ground.[4]
Seasons
The official merchandise is provided by SEVEN and the principal shirt sponsor is Kent RO Systems. Spykar, Gulf Oil, Gemini Oil, Finolex Pipes, LYF Smartphones, DBS Bank and Marriott International are the associated sponsors for 2016 season. They also signed tournament partners such as OLA, Kingfishers, Deakin University, New India Assurance, Gourmet Renaissance and Fan Garage.
Current squad
- Players with international caps are listed in bold.
- * denotes a player who is currently unavailable for selection.
- * denotes a player who is unavailable for rest of the season.
| No. |
Name |
Nat |
Birth date |
Batting style |
Bowling style |
Signed year |
Salary |
Notes |
| Batsmen |
| 3 | Ajinkya Rahane |  | (1988-06-05) 5 June 1988 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2016 | ₹80 million (US$1.2 million) | |
| 10 | George Bailey |  | (1982-09-07) 7 September 1982 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2016 | ₹10 million (US$150,000) | Overseas |
| 13 | Faf du Plessis[lower-alpha 1] |  | (1984-07-13) 13 July 1984 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2016 | ₹47.5 million (US$710,000) | Overseas |
| 23 | Saurabh Tiwary | | (1989-12-30) 30 December 1989 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | 2016 | Traded player | |
| 24 | Kevin Pietersen[lower-alpha 2] |  | (1980-06-27) 27 June 1980 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2016 | ₹35 million (US$520,000) | Overseas |
| 49 | Steve Smith[lower-alpha 3] | | (1989-06-02) 2 June 1989 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | 2016 | ₹40 million (US$590,000) | Overseas |
| 100 | Usman Khawaja | | (1986-12-18) 18 December 1986 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | 2016 | ₹10 million (US$150,000) | Overseas |
| All-rounders |
| 5 | Baba Aparajith | | (1994-07-08) 8 July 1994 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2016 | ₹1 million (US$15,000) | |
| 16 | Thisara Perera |  | (1989-04-03) 3 April 1989 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2016 | ₹10 million (US$150,000) | Overseas |
| 18 | Ankit Sharma | | (1991-04-20) 20 April 1991 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 2016 | ₹1 million (US$15,000) | |
| 25 | Mitchell Marsh[lower-alpha 4] | | (1991-10-20) 20 October 1991 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2016 | ₹48 million (US$710,000) | Overseas |
| 28 | Irfan Pathan | | (1984-10-27) 27 October 1984 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | 2016 | ₹10 million (US$150,000) | |
| 29 | Rajat Bhatia | | (1979-10-22) 22 October 1979 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2016 | ₹6 million (US$89,000) | |
| 81 | Albie Morkel | | (1981-06-10) 10 June 1981 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2016 | Traded player | Overseas |
| Wicket-keepers |
| 7 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni | | (1981-07-07) 7 July 1981 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 2016 | ₹125 million (US$1.9 million) | Captain |
| 54 | Peter Handscomb | | (1991-04-26) 26 April 1991 | Right-handed | | 2016 | ₹3 million (US$45,000) | Overseas |
| | Ankush Bains | | (1995-12-16) 16 December 1995 | Right-handed | | 2016 | ₹1 million (US$15,000) | |
| Bowlers |
| 1 | Ishant Sharma | | (1988-09-02) 2 September 1988 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | 2016 | ₹38 million (US$560,000) | |
| 9 | R. P. Singh | | (1985-12-06) 6 December 1985 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | 2016 | ₹3 million (US$45,000) | |
| 11 | Ashok Dinda | | (1984-03-25) 25 March 1984 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2016 | ₹5 million (US$74,000) | |
| 26 | Scott Boland | | (1989-04-11) 11 April 1989 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | 2016 | ₹5 million (US$74,000) | Overseas |
| 45 | Deepak Chahar | | (1992-08-07) 7 August 1992 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2016 | ₹1 million (US$15,000) | |
| 63 | Adam Zampa | | (1992-03-31) 31 March 1992 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break googly | 2016 | ₹3 million (US$45,000) | Overseas |
| 89 | Murugan Ashwin | | (1990-09-08) 8 September 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break googly | 2016 | ₹45 million (US$670,000) | |
| 99 | Ravichandran Ashwin | | (1986-09-17) 17 September 1986 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2016 | ₹75 million (US$1.1 million) | |
| | Ishwar Pandey | | (1989-08-15) 15 August 1989 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2016 | ₹2 million (US$30,000) | |
| | Jaskaran Singh | | (1989-09-04) 4 September 1989 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 2016 | ₹1 million (US$15,000) | |
- ↑ ruled out of the season with fractured finger
- ↑ ruled out of the season with calf strain
- ↑ ruled out of the season with a wrist injury
- ↑ ruled out of the season with side strain
Administration and support staff
Results summary
By season - 2016
The Rising Pune Supergiants made an excellent start to the season, convincingly winning their first game against the defending champions, Mumbai Indians, by 9 wickets. However, they went on to lose their next four games - against the Gujarat Lions, Kings XI Punjab, Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Kolkata Knight RIders. The inclusion of Ashoke Dinda, in their 6th game of the season, provided a brief inspiration as the Supergiants beat the Sunrisers Hyderabad by 34 runs. They lost the next two games - against the Gujarat Lions and the Mumbai Indians - at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. The Supergiants were also briefly bolstered by the arrival of Australian batsmen Usman Khawaja and George Bailey against the Delhi Daredevils at the Feroz Shah Kotla and went on to win the game by 7 wickets. In the last match held in Vishakapatnam against the Kings XI Punjab the team was struggling to win despite a good start by the openers and losing wickets in intervals, they needed 23 from 6 balls in last over and the Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni standing in the crease, the Captain hitted 3*6 and 1*4 to win the match in a thrilling way and scoring 63 runs from 23 balls. After the end of the 2016 IPL, the Supergiants won only 5 games out of 14, and won only 2 of their 7 home games - 4 at the MCA Stadium in Pune and 3 at their new home ground, the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Vishakhapatnam. They finished placed at seventh place in the points table.
Performance summary in
Indian Premier League
| Year | Pld | Won | Loss | NR | Tied | SR(%) | Position | Summary |
| 2016 |
14 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
Rising Pune Supergiants in 2016
Rising Pune Supergiants 2016 IPL Fixtures
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