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The eight IPL franchises seek urgent clarity about Ben Stokes' availability for this year's tournament, after he was charged with affray
With Rising Pune Supergiant needing only 33 from the last four overs, that too with eight wickets in hand, it took a special performance from Mumbai Indians' end-overs bowlers to steal a one-run win
While Ben Stokes provided the X factor for Rising Pune Supergiant, it was the consistency shown by the likes of Rahul Tripathi and Washington Sundar that lifted them from the lows of 2016
Pandya-Johnson, Pandya-Sharma and Dhoni-Tiwary make the cut for the top partnerships of the week
Krunal Pandya finished the tournament with 243 runs and 10 wickets
With his more established team-mates falling to Rising Pune Supergiant's traps, it was up to a man playing his first IPL final to take control of it
Stephen Fleming was proud of the planning and execution by Pune this IPL season, and the one-run loss in the final did not change that he said
Unlike the team's 2013 and 2015 IPL title runs, in 2017 Mumbai did not rely on individual brilliance to carry them to the championship, a point of pride for Rohit Sharma
There were rumours about Rising Pune being a bickering and uninterested unit because of off-field decisions, but amid the noise, the think-tank addressed the underlying issue of how to win games
Rising Pune are worried about a Mumbai Indians backlash after emerging victorious on each of the three occasions this season
Several IPL shareholders - players, coaches, franchise owners and administrators - have expressed reservations on various aspects of the rain-affected eliminator between Sunrisers and Knight Riders in Bengaluru, which finished at 1.27 am
For someone so young, with no big variations, the Pune offspinner has done remarkably well thanks to his clarity of thought
MS Dhoni was far from his best leading into and in this game. But when the ball was put in his half, that hardly mattered - much to the delight of even staunch Mumbai Indians fans
MS Dhoni and Manoj Tiwary plundered 41 runs off the last two overs to take Pune to 162
For nearly 15 overs of the Rising Pune Supergiant innings, the run-rate was going nowhere. Then Dhoni changed everything in the space of 12 balls
Jaydev Unadkat and Shardul Thakur combined to take five wickets in seven overs to help Rising Pune Supergiant dismantle Kings XI Punjab for 73
Kings XI Punjab were knocked out of IPL 2017 after they recorded their lowest total in the tournament's history and their director of cricket operations was not pleased one bit
Rahul Tripathi had to give up cricket when his army-man father was posted in Kashmir, but a move to Pune gave renewed impetus to his childhood dream
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