On Saturday evening, Chennai Super Kings confirmed that Ravindra Jadeja will handover the captaincy to MS Dhoni for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n
Former Indian cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin reacted to the announcement on the \u2018Not just Cricket\u2019 show, saying, \u201c I don\u2019t know why Chennai gave the captaincy to Jadeja, which exposed his game, to be honest. He is a brilliant fielder and he dropped some easy catches\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking further, he stated, \u201cIf Dhoni is in the XI, he has to be the captain\u201d.<\/p>\n
This season, Jadeja has struggled with both bat and ball. He has 112 runs at an average of 22.4 and a strike rate of 121.74 in eight matches, far less than the stats he had achieved in the past two years. His 227 runs in 2021 came at a strike rate of 145.51, with a high of 62*.<\/p>\n
Before this IPL season, Jadeja never had led a team at the senior level, and it\u2019s possible that the decision to provide him the captaincy was fast. Given that Dhoni guided an ageing squad to the trophy last season while not scoring many runs himself, it was difficult to see why the 40-year-old wouldn\u2019t utilise his savvy as a captain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following CSK\u2019s terrible start to the season, Jadeja, who\u2019d been made captain two days before the start of the ongoing IPL season, dropped down as captain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":40413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[320,69],"class_list":["post-19757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-chennai-super-kings","tag-ms-dhoni"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}