2009 में कोलकाता नाइट राइडर्स ने टीम के 4 कप्तान घोषित कर दिए। KKR ने जो किया वह तो अद्भुत था- वैसा तो आज तक किसी और ने सोचा भी नहीं।कहानी दिलचस्प हैं
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00:00You are watching IPL Trivia.
00:03I remembered an interesting story related to IPL.
00:06Every IPL team has one captain.
00:09But in a season of IPL, a unique experiment was done
00:13in which not one captain of a team
00:16but four captains were made.
00:19Now, was this multi-captain idea a hit or a flaw?
00:23Let's see.
00:24See, IPL's new season is again in the news.
00:32And every team is entering the field with a new strategy.
00:36But in 2009, what the team of Kolkata Knight Riders,
00:40that is, KKR, did was amazing.
00:43Just think, one of the owners of the team,
00:46Shahrukh Khan's thinking did not even reach there.
00:49You will remember that in the debut season of IPL,
00:52that is, in 2008, KKR's captain was Prince of Kolkata,
00:57that is, his Sourav Ganguly.
00:59But that year, KKR's performance in IPL was very bad.
01:03In the league of eight teams, KKR was on the sixth number,
01:06that is, second from the bottom.
01:09Now, in 2009, in search of victory,
01:12coach John Buchanan changed the team's strategy.
01:15He did a new experiment.
01:17He did not remove Sourav Ganguly from the captaincy,
01:20but removed the title of fixed captain from his name.
01:24And in that season, he announced four captains for the team.
01:29Yes, there were four captains of one team.
01:32Chris Gayle, Brendan MacCullum, Brad Hodge and Sourav Ganguly.
01:37In which it was decided that before the match,
01:39it will be told who will be the captain in this match.
01:41Even Laxmi Ratan Shukla, who used to be the captain of Bengal,
01:45was counted as a reserve captain.
01:47Obviously, Sourav Ganguly hid this fact and said in the media
01:51that tomorrow, a captain can also ask for four coaches for his team.
01:55Anyway, there was a commotion and the media
01:58insulted Kolkata by calling it Sourav Ganguly's demotion.
02:03The matter was so big that coach John Buchanan had to
02:06put his hand on Sourav Ganguly's shoulder in front of the media
02:09and give a clarification that there is no dispute between us.
02:13Actually, 37-year-old Sourav Ganguly was not fitting in
02:18the strategy of Buchanan's T20 scheme.
02:22But the coach forgot that he is from Kolkata
02:25and Sourav Ganguly is a favorite player of this city.
02:29The good news also reached Shahrukh that if these two
02:32keep aiming at each other and create a ruckus in the media,
02:37it will have a bad effect on the team's brand image
02:40and the local sponsors were running away.
02:42As a result, Shahrukh called everyone to his home in Mumbai
02:47and there was a compromise.
02:50In which, Shahrukh himself decided as a selector
02:54and announced in front of the media that Sourav Ganguly
02:57will remain the captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders.
03:01But the truth is that after one season of IPL,
03:05the reputation of Indian cricketers, reputation
03:09or icon players had started to shake.
03:13In Bangalore, Rahul Dravid was replaced by Vijay Mallya's Royal Challengers Bangalore
03:18and in Hyderabad, VVS Laxman was replaced by Deccan Chargers.
03:23KKR also did the same and stopped their multi-captain strategy
03:27and replaced Ganguly with Brandom McCullum.
03:31Coincidentally, IPL was not played in India in 2009.
03:37So when these captains were removed, the atmosphere in their city calmed down.
03:42So in the early years of IPL, these feelings of their city
03:47have no place in today's IPL.
03:50And this rebellion started in 2009
03:54when in KKR, coach John Buchanan was successful in removing Ganguly from the captaincy
03:58but he was very sorry that his multi-captain theory could not be applied.
04:04Records clearly show that in the first two years of KKR IPL,
04:07there was no claim of winning any title.
04:10The team which had 100 of Ganguly, one of the best players of Wande,
04:14Brad Hodge, who was a star in T20 cricket at that time and had the highest record of runs,
04:19Chris Gayle, who was the only batsman to score 100 runs in the international T20
04:24and Brandom McCullum was a great hitter.
04:27Along with this, they also had a great young batsman like Ishaan Sharma.
04:31So imagine, with such a team like KKR,
04:34the record of their useless performance does not match at all in the early years.
04:41So this multi-captain theory of the coach flopped.
04:44But coach John Buchanan did not agree.
04:47He extended this theory and implemented another multi-captain theory in the field.
04:53What was it?
04:54According to this experiment, McCullum was the captain on the ground
04:58but Brad Hodge was the silent captain to help him.
05:01It did not end here.
05:02There were three more assistant captains.
05:05Matthew Mott, Andy Bickle and John Buchanan were sitting in different places in the stands
05:11who were talking to each other on action with walkie-talkie.
05:14It was a drama.
05:16McCullum used to look here and there for a hint
05:19and the result was that the batsman used to get different instructions for each ball.
05:23You must be thinking that KKR must have created a ruckus in the IPL season
05:28because of this unique experiment of coach Sarkesh.
05:32No, no, no.
05:33Nothing like that happened.
05:35Actually, KKR won only three matches in that season
05:39and had to face defeat in 10 matches.
05:42And out of those, KKR's team lost 9 consecutive matches
05:47which is still a record of IPL.
05:50In the third match, the series of defeats started with a super over
05:54and KKR won only one match till the 12th match.
05:58If they had not won the last two matches,
06:00they would have made the new record of the worst season of any team in the history of franchisee cricket.
06:06This multi-captain experiment of IPL was a flop.
06:10What happened next with KKR?
06:12Sourav Ganguly was back.
06:15But that is a different story, a different trivia.
06:18And I will be back with that story.
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