Call it a superstition or not but this time around, Rising Pune Supergiants have decided to remove the last “s” and call themselves as Rising Pune Supergiant. If the team spokesperson is to be believed, this has nothing to do with any superstitious belief but a fact that they believe that the entire team is a supergiant.

“Last year when he called ourselves Supergiants, we were looking at four to five players in the squad who had supergiant abilities. While we were preparing for this IPL, we thought why just a few players, the entire team is supergiant. So, that is why we decided to go with Supergiant this time,” the spokesperson said.

Earlier, the Pune team decided to replace MS Dhoni with Steven Smith for IPL -10.

The team debut last year was not what they had expected as they lost nine matches out of 14 and were placed second last in the table. Hope the new name and new captain changes fortune for them this time.

Today’s Match – IPL 2016 Final – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad
Date – May 29, 2016
Time – 20.00 (8pm Indian Time)
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
Toss – Sunrisers Hyderabad elected to bat
Result – Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 8 runs

Today’s Match – IPL 2016 Final – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Sunrisers Hyderabad
Date: May 29, 2016
Time: 20.00 (8pm Indian Time)
Venue: M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

The VIVO IPL 2016 season will come to an end today with the final between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.

Royal Challengers Bangalore who at one stage were almost out of the league with just two wins out of eight had a dramatic turnaround of events thanks to Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers. The duo not only shattered dreams of other teams to qualify but also broke confidence of bowlers by smashing fours and sixes. RCB won five of their remaining six matches to eventually end up second on points table. In the last match, though they were 68/6 but again AB de Villiers took the challenge and brought the team in final.

Sunrisers Hyderabad on the other hand had a decent season and were at the top of the table but with two defeats they dropped to number 3 just before the league stage ended. In the eliminator against KKR, they looked jittery but it was captain David Warner who single handily took the team to the final.

If both teams are compared, they have equally strong batting and bowling lineups. It is expected to be a scintillating evening and RCB would be hoping for a third title where as Sunrisers would be hoping for their maiden title win.

Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL 2016 Squad

Virat Kohli (C), AB de Villers, Chris Gayle, David Wiese, Adam Milne, Mitchell Starc, Abu Nechim Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Kedar Jadhav, Sreenath Arvind, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Varun Aaron, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shane Watson, Kane Richardson, Stuart Binny, Travis Head, Samuel Badree, Praveen Dubey, Vikas Tokas, Vikramjeet Malik, Akshay Karnewar, Iqbal Abdullah and Sachin Baby.

Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2016 Squad

David Warner (C), Shikhar Dhawan, Eoin Morgan, Moises Henriques, Kane Williamson, KL Rahul, Naman Ojha, Parvez Rasool, Trent Boult, Ashish Reddy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Bipul Sharma, Karn Sharma, Ricky Bhui, Siddharth Kaul, Yuvraj Singh, Aditya Tare, Ashish Nehra, Deepak Hooda, Mustafizur Rahman, Barinder Singh Sran, Abhimanyu Mithun, Ben Cutting, Vijay Shankar and T Suman.

Match: Qualifier 2 IPL 2016 – Gujarat Lions v Sunrisers Hyderabad
Date: May 27, 2016
Venue: Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Toss: Sunrisers Hyderabad elected to field
Result: Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 4 wickets.

Today’s Match – Eliminator – Sunrisers Hyderabad v Kolkata Knight Riders
Date – Wed May 25 (20 ovs)
Time – 20:00 local (14:30 GMT)
Venue – Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Toss – Kolkata Knight Riders elected to field
Result – Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 22 runs
Man Of The Match – Moises Henriques