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It is the first time Rising Pune Supergiant team playing the IPL finals and it is against the two-time champions Mumbai Indians. Though RPS team started the tournament with few losses, they bounced back with the help of Rahul Tripathi, MS Dhoni, Ben Stokes, Washington Sundar and Unadkat. Finally, they are in the finals facing Mumbai Indians.


The former RPS skipper MS Dhoni looked a bit inconsistent in the beginning of the tournament but managed to play few match winning knocks and played a key role in pushing his team to the finals of this year’s IPL. Despite all this, nothing stopped the Pune franchise owner Sanjeev Goenka from comparing two of the most important players in his team MS Dhoni and Steve Smith.


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After all, Goenka’s brother Harsh’s Twitter posts created more stir than the man who would take off like a helicopter and till recently was Captain Cool. Goenka followed up on the comment about Dhoni’s cerebral faculties with one more in sync with a team that has won nine of its last 11 games and are in Sunday’s final of IPL 10 here.


In a recent interview, Goenka lauded Dhoni as one of the greatest minds but said Aussie skipper Steve Smith is even one step ahead. “MS is one of the greatest minds I have interacted with. And he is the best wicketkeeper in the world. The one mind ahead of Dhoni’s is Smith’s,” Goenka said.


He further said, referring to RPS captain Steve Smith. “My brief to Smith was: win the championship. It’s difficult to believe the way he has planned some dismissals, the tact, and firmness with which he has dealt with tricky situations and the win-or-nothing attitude he has been able to infuse into the team, get them to gel as a unit. And he’s gone out in the strategic timeouts to tell batsmen to either score 30 from the next 12 balls or get out. If we had a bad start, it was because Smith was out with food poisoning,” said Goenka.


 



 

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