Rising Pune Supergiant in 2017


The Rising Pune Supergiant was a franchise cricket team based in Pune, Maharashtra, India, which played in the Indian Premier League in 2016 and 2017. It was one of the eight teams which were competing in the 2017 Indian Premier League. RPS was captained for the season by Steve Smith and coached by Stephen Fleming. The team lost the final to Mumbai Indians by 1 run, which was the team's last game in the IPL.

Pre-Season

The players auction for the 2017 Indian Premier League was originally scheduled to be held in Bangalore on 4 February 2017, but was pushed forward by at least two weeks due to the BCCI–Lodha committee stand-off. On 3 February, the BCCI announced that the auction will be held on 20 February in Bangalore and that a total of 799 players have signed up for it. On 14 February, the IPL Desk released a list of 351 players.
Rising Pune Supergiant bought the following players at the auction:
NatPlayerBase price
Winning bid
Ben Stokes2001450
Jaydev Unadkat3030
Rahul Chahar1010
Saurabh Kumar1010
Milind Tandon1010
Daniel Christian100100
Rahul Tripathi1010
Manoj Tiwary5050
Lockie Ferguson5050

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:
S.NoPlayerFrom
1Mayank AgarwalDelhi Daredevils
2Shardul ThakurKings XI Punjab

Squad

Rising Pune Supergiant in League Stage

Rising Pune Supergiant in Play-Offs

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Statistics

Most Runs

PlayerRuns
Steve Smith1515347239.33121.9684*033812
Rahul Tripathi1414039127.92146.4493024317
Ajinkya Rahane1616138225.46118.266002359
Manoj Tiwary1513332432.40137.2860023111
Ben Stokes1211131631.60142.98103*112215

Player
Jaydev Unadkat1212245/3013.417.0211.401
Imran Tahir1212183/1820.507.8515.600
Ben Stokes1212123/1826.337.1822.000
Daniel Christian1313112/1027.097.4521.800
Shardul Thakur1212113/1928.638.2520.800