{"id":62790,"date":"2017-02-19T11:28:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T11:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=62790"},"modified":"2017-02-19T11:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T11:29:41","slug":"mahendra-singh-dhoni-sacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/mahendra-singh-dhoni-sacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahendra Singh Dhoni Sacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhoni has been sacked as the captain of the Rising Pune Supergiants for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League. The franchise has appointed Australia&#8217;s Steve Smith as the new skipper.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have opted for Steve Smith as captain of RPS for the forth coming IPL season,&#8221; RPS owner Sanjeev Goenka told .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Despite having a good side the team did not get expected results last year. Last year we failed. We could have done much better,&#8221; he added.Pune, one the two franchises to replace the suspended Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, finished seventh in their debut season last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62791\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/dhoni_2825660f_1487494571_749x421.png\" alt=\"Mahendra Singh Dhoni sacked\" width=\"749\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/dhoni_2825660f_1487494571_749x421.png 749w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/dhoni_2825660f_1487494571_749x421-500x280.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under Dhoni, the team managed to win only five of their 14 matches in the IPL 9.Dhoni&#8217;s form was also a cause of concern for the side. He managed to score only 284 runs from 12 innings with only one fifty to his credit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 35-year-old is one of the three captains to have won the cash-rich T20 league twice. He led Chennai Super Kings for nine editions starting from the league&#8217;s inaugural season in 2008.Under him, CSK won the IPL in 2010 and 2011 while the Champions League in 2010 and 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhoni has been sacked as the captain of the Rising Pune Supergiants for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League. The franchise has appointed Australia&#8217;s Steve Smith as the new skipper. &#8220;We have opted for Steve Smith as captain of RPS for the forth coming IPL season,&#8221; RPS owner Sanjeev Goenka told . &#8220;Despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[3345,32734,32737,5904,32730,32735,32729,32732,32733,32731,32736],"class_list":["post-62790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-australia","tag-chennai-super-kings","tag-csk","tag-dhoni","tag-indian-premier-league","tag-rajasthan-royals","tag-rising-pune-supergiants","tag-rps","tag-sanjeev-goenka","tag-steve-smith","tag-t20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ms-dhoni_india-vs-england1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}