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Mumbai Indians' Rohit Sharma and Chennai Super Kings's MS Dhoni are the most successful captains with five IPL titles each. [7] [8] Dhoni also holds the records for most matches (226) and most wins (133) as a captain. [9] [6] Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, and Steven Smith are the only players to have captained three different teams.
The inaugural season of the IPL was held in 2008, and the tournament has been held annually in India [a] ever since. [1] Currently, ten teams compete for the championship. [3] Since the league's inception, seven teams have won the title, with the Mumbai Indians (MI) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) both securing five titles each.
Under his leadership, Mumbai has won the IPL in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020; they also won the former Champions League Twenty20 competition in 2013. [106] Sharma has been one of the most successful players in the IPL as captain since 2013 of the Mumbai Indians, who have won the tournament five times under his leadership.
Altogether, thirteen teams have played in the past ten seasons of the IPL tournament. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Of these, three teams are no longer a part of the tournament. [ 22 ] In 2011, BCCI terminated the franchise of Kochi Tuskers Kerala for contractual breach. [ 23 ]
Most wins as captain of India, with 40 wins out of 68 matches. ... Most runs in a single edition of IPL ... ICC Test Team of the Year: 2017 (captain), [181] ...
Dhoni led the team from 2008 to 2023 and is one of the most successful captains in the IPL, having led the Super Kings to ten finals of which the team has won five. [83] [178] In 2022, Jadeja was appointed as the captain succeeding Dhoni but handed the captaincy back to Dhoni after a poor start to the IPL season. [179]
The 2022 season of the IPL offered total prize money of ₹ 46.5 crore (equivalent to ₹ 49 crore or US$5.8 million in 2023), with the winning team netting ₹ 20 crore (equivalent to ₹ 21 crore or US$2.5 million in 2023) and the second-placed team ₹ 13 crore (equivalent to ₹ 14 crore or US$1.6 million in 2023).
He is also the team's longest-serving and most successful captain with 28 test victories and led the team to win the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, the team's first International Cricket Council trophy. Fleming captained New Zealand in the first ever Twenty20 International against Australia in 2005.