From Ravindra Jadeja to Dinesh Karthik: IPL captains who stepped down in middle of a season - In Pics

Now-defunct IPL franchise Deccan Chargers lost 12 out of 14 in the inaugural season of the IPL due to which the franchise replace VVS Laxman with Adam Gilchrist as Deccan Chargers' captain in the middle of the season. Notably, the team won the IPL title in the following season under Gilchrist's captaincy.

David Warner led Sunrisers Hyderabad to IPL title in 2016. But in 2021, SRH witnessed a horrible start to their campaign, having won only a single game out of their first seven matches.

The poor performance of the team resulted in a conflict between Warner and the SRH management, which resulted in making Kane Williamson their captain.

However, Williamson failed to revive SRH's campaign as they finished at the bottom of the points table in the IPL 2021.

In IPL 2012, RCB won just two games of their first five under Vettori's leadership, due to which the franchise named Virat Kohli their new skipper in the middle of the season. Under Kohli, RCB finished fifth in that season.

Later in 2013, Kohli was made full-time captain of RCB and he continued to captain the team for eight more years.

In IPL 2014, SRH won two games out of their first four under the captaincy of Dhawan, who was also struggling with the bat. Hence, the opening batter decided to step down as captain and he was replaced by Darren Sammy, who was the skipper of the West Indies limited-overs side back then.

Ricky Ponting stepped down as MI skipper in the middle of IPL 2013 season as Mumbai lost four of their first five games of the season. The franchise then named Rohit Sharma as their new captain and under him, MI witnessed a huge turnaround in the tournament as they went on to win the coveted trophy in 2013.

 

During IPL 2009, RCB lost four of the first five games under Kevin Pietersen which forced the then team owner of RCB, Vijay Mallya, to remove the former England batter from the captaincy.

Following Pietersen's removal, Indian leg-spinning wizard Anil Kumble took over the mantle and under his leadership RCB went on to win eight of the next 10 matches and reached the finals, where they lost to Deccan Chargers.

 

In his first season as the captain in IPL 2022, Jadeja decided to step down as the CSK skipper to focus on his performance, which has been below par so far.

Also, CSK didn't fare well under Jadeja's captaincy in IPL 2022 as they are on a brink of getting eliminated from the tournament.

Meanwhile, Dhoni was once again named CSK skipper after Jadeja stepped down.

Kolkata Knight Riders was doing pretty good in IPL 2020, having won four of their first seven games, but their captain Dinesh Karthik was struggling to score runs. Hence, he decided to step down as KKR skipper and he was replaced by Eoin Morgan.