Jaipur
Former Australian captain Steve Smith on Saturday replaced Ajinkya Rahane as Rajasthan Royals skipper, hoping the mid-season switch will revive their disappointing campaign so far in the IPL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smith, who is back in \naction after serving a one-year ban for his role in the ball-tampering \nscandal, has been made the leader of the team once again. The \nannouncement was made ahead of Royals’ clash against Mumbai Indians \nhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The hosts, who have lost six out of their eight games, \nneed to win at least five of their remaining six matches to have any \nchance of making the play-offs.Smith was also named captain before the \nstart of the 2018 edition but in the wake of the ball-tampering \nincident, it was decided that Rahane would lead the team in the \nAustralian’s forced absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Rajasthan Royals will be led by the\n Australian batsman Steven Smith for the upcoming matches of the IPL. \nAjinkya Rahane did a fantastic job in leading the team to the playoffs \nlast year, however, the franchisee now thinks a fresh approach is needed\n to bring their 2019 campaign back on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Steve has always \nbeen part of the leadership team within RR and Rahane will continue to \nbe a key voice in the side, therefore the Royals see this as a small \nrestructuring process to secure the results required to move up the \ntable,” said the team in a statement. However, Smith is expected to be \navailable until May 1 but by then, the team would have played majority \nof its league games.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
JaipurFormer Australian captain Steve Smith on Saturday replaced Ajinkya Rahane as Rajasthan Royals skipper, hoping the mid-season switch will revive their disappointing campaign so far in the IPL. Smith, who is back in action after serving a one-year ban for his role in the ball-tampering scandal, has been made the leader of the team once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59640,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59638\/revisions\/59640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}