It is about 19 February 2017, when the new team of IPL Rising Pune Supergiants issued a statement saying that MS Dhoni will no longer be the captain of the team. In his place, Steve Smith has been made the captain of the team. Let us tell you that this was when Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals (2016, 2017) were banned for 2 years due to betting and in their place two new teams Rising Pune Supergiants and Gujarat Lions were entered in IPL. Rising Pune Supergiants made Dhoni the captain in the year 2016, but he took away the captaincy even before the start of the next season. For the first time in the history of IPL, a franchise had dismissed Dhoni from the captaincy.
Dhoni became a part of Rising Pune Supergiant after CSK was banned.
Lucknow Supergiants owner Sanjeev Goenka was the owner of Rising Pune Supergiants team in 2016-17. After the ban of Chennai Super Kings, Rising Pune Supergiant included MS Dhoni in its team in the year 2016 and made him the captain. However, under the captaincy of Dhoni that season, the performance of Rising Pune Supergiant was very poor. The team could win only 5 out of 14 matches and was at 7th out of 8 in the points table.
Captaincy snatched from Dhoni just before the start of the season
MS Dhoni’s bat also remained silent that season. Dhoni could score only 284 runs while batting in 12 innings. After this, everything changed in the next season. Suddenly, just before the start of the 2017 season, Rising Pune Supergiants announced that MS Dhoni would no longer be the captain of the team. Australian batsman Steve Smith will captain in his place. Dhoni played only as a wicketkeeper batsman that season.
Fans were angry when Dhoni snatched the captaincy
Controversy arose after Dhoni was removed from the captaincy. Fans were very angry with Rising Pune Supergiant owner Sanjeev Goenka. Seeing the growing controversy, Sanjeev Goenka had given clarification and said that the last season was not good for us. We wanted to make a young player the captain. However, he also said that he fully respects Dhoni as a player and human being. Meanwhile news came that Dhoni himself wanted to leave the captaincy. No one knows what this truth is, but the fans believed that Dhoni had been insulted and they were very angry about this.
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