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: Kumar Sangakkara – Cameron White
There was one more change in 2012, as the Deccan Chargers once again changed their captain in between a season. The year 2012 was the last one for the Deccan Chargers in the IPL as the franchise got dissolved after that.
In IPL 2012, Kumar Sangakkara was captaining the franchise and they lost their five games on the trot. Rain abandoned their sixth game and they were yet to win a match after playing six games. Skipper Sangakkara even dropped himself from the playing XI. The franchise announced the 29-year-old Australian all-rounder Cameron White as their captain later.
However, despite changing their skipper, there was no change in their results as they went on to lose five out of their next eight games. That marked the end of the Deccan Chargers franchise, the winners of IPL 2009.
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