Rising Pune Supergiants
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| Captain: | Steve Smith |
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| Coach: | Stephen Fleming |
| City: | Pune, Maharashtra, India |
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| Owner: | RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group |
| Founded: | 2015 |
| Home ground: | Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune |
| Secondary home ground(s) | Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam |
| Official website: | risingpunesupergiant |
 Rising Pune Supergiant in 2017
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The Rising Pune Supergiant (often abbreviated as RPS) is a 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 Rising Pune Supergiant franchise is owned by RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group controlled by Sanjiv Goenka. The team name was announced (as Rising Pune Supergiants) on 18 January 2016 by Goenka in Kolkata and Raghu Iyer was appointed CEO. The owners changed the team name to Rising Pune Supergiant on 26 March 2017.
The Rising Pune Supergiant's 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. 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.
The official merchandise is provided by SEVEN and the principal shirt sponsor is Jio,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.
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