IPL: Captains who stepped down in the middle of a season

2014: Shikhar Dhawan – Darren Sammy

The southpaw from Delhi, Shikhar Dhawan was named as the captain of the Sunrisers Hyderabad for IPL 2014. Dhawan is among the top run-scorers in the history of IPL but when it comes to captaincy, he has not been successful in the role. He has been playing the IPL right from the first season but despite having so much experience, he is still not considered captaincy material.

In IPL 2014, SRH won two games out of their first four, and Dhawan was struggling with the bat. He realized that the workload of captaincy was affecting his batting and he decided to step down. Darren Sammy, who was the skipper of the West Indies limited-overs side back then, was appointed as the new skipper of the team.

Despite changing the captain, the result did not go in the favor of the Hyderabad-based franchise and they could not qualify for the playoffs that season. After the completion of that edition, SRH released Sammy and later found a great leader in the form of David Warner, who took SRH to glory in 2016.