Steve smith replaces ms dhoni as rising pune supergiants captain in ipl session 10

A day before the 2017 Indian premier league player’s auction,MS Dhoni has been replaced as the captain of rising pune supergiants by australian skeeper steve smith,the franchise said on sunday.

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Confirming the developement, RPS owner sanjiv  goenka said,”Yes we have opted for steve smith  as a captain of RPS for the forthcoming IPL season. I have been thinking about this decision since the end of the last season and discussing with my management team. And our thought is to have a young captain at the helm of the team this year. We have a very good mix of youth and experience in the team and feel we need a young mind and young captain with different  ideas to spearhead RPS.”

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The 35 year old mahi, who led chennai super kings to two consecutive ipl titles in 2010 and 2011, recently decided to hand over the captaincy bandwagon of indian cricket team to virat kohli.