IPL: Captains who stepped down in the middle of a season
Ravindra Jadeja recently gave CSK's captaincy back to MS Dhoni. first time that a captain was changed in the middle of a season.
2012: Daniel Vettori – Virat Kohli
The Royal Challengers Bangalore start every IPL season as favorites but they are yet to win a title after playing 14 seasons. They have come closer to the title, reaching the final thrice but have failed to lift the trophy. One of those three occasions came in 2011 when the kiwi spinner Daniel Vettori led the side to the finals.
In the following season, RCB won just two games of their first five, and Virat Kohli was named the captain of the franchise in the middle of the season. Kohli was a young rising Indian batter at that time, who was yet to show the world, what he could do. So, making him the captain was a brave decision taken by the management that too in the middle of the season.
The team did partially well under him in the remaining games, finishing at number five on the points table. Kohli was then named the full-time captain of RCB in 2013 and he continued to captain the team for eight more years. His tenure as a captain did not see as many highs as the lows. The breakthrough year for RCB came in 2016 when they reached the IPL final for the third time.
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