IPL 2016: Massive blow to Rising Pune Supergiants again, Steve Smith heads home with wrist injury

Australia cricket captain Steve Smith has pulled out of the Indian Premier League to head home for treatment on a wrist injury. It is another big blow to MS Dhoni led Rising Pune Supergiants. 

Cricket Australia said Smith had laboured due to pain in his right wrist for the past week while playing for Rising Pune Supergiants in the Twenty20 tournament. "From the information we have so far, this doesn't appear to be a serious injury but we are keen to give him the time to recover and rehabilitate before heading to the West Indies at the end of May," CA said in a statement on Monday.

All-rounder Mitchell Marsh who too played for Pune was also pulled from the IPL to have treatment on a side strain, CA had said on Sunday. Australia will play a one-day international tournament with West Indies and South Africa in June.

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With Smith and Mitch Marsh injured, Dhoni led Pune team's torrid luck with foreign players continue. Earlier Kevin Pieterson and Faf Du Plessis who were part of the Pune side were ruled out due to injury. 

Pune is currently languishing at the sixth position in the points table having just won 2 out of their 8 games. 

With Reuters inputs