IPL 2024: Was Ruturaj the Ideal Captaincy Choice?

MS Dhoni, the most successful captain in IPL history has passed on the baton to Ruturaj Gaikwad who will be making his IPL captaincy debut tonight. As we approach this special game in the history of CSK, let's have a look at Ruturaj's T20 captaincy stats.

Ruturaj Gaikwad has decent captaincy stats. He has captained in 16 T20 matches so far and has won 10 of them, while losing 5 (1 ending as a draw). It will be MS Dhoni's grooming that will make the difference for Ruturaj. It was evident that Dhoni had no prospective successors in sight, with Jadeja no longer being a captaincy option. So it had to be Ruturaj.

While CSK fans hope that Ruturaj makes a great start to his captaincy career tonight, he will definitely have huge shoes to fill.