MS Dhoni was the skipper of the Rising Pune Super Giants (RPSG) during the 2016 season. Later, the franchise sacked him. Instead of Dhoni, RPSG, which was owned by Sanjeev Goenka, appointed Australia's star batter Steve Smith, who was very young then, as their new captain.
Faf du Plessis claimed that after a couple of defeats, the team management decided to remove Dhoni from captain's position.
“We hadn’t won a couple of games, and the owner at the time made the decision to change the captain. Everyone was shocked after that call."
Steve Smith appointed as the captain, replacing MS Dhoni
Under the leadership of Smith, RPSG qualified for the IPL 2017 final, only to get defeated by the Mumbai Indians. Mumbai won the final match by 1 run, after scoring 129 runs in the first innings.
Faf du Plessis praises Steve Smith leadership in IPL 2017
Plessis further added that, as the young captain, Smith did a good job in his very first season as the RPSG captain. To date, Faf du Plessis believed that they should have won the IPL 2017 final. They went very close, chasing the 130-run target, but fell short by only one run in the penultimate over of the match.
Smith scored 51 runs off 50 balls; Ajinkya Rahane scored 44 runs off 38 balls. But the rest of the batters in the line-up failed to deliver enough to take the RPSG to the finish line.
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