IPL 2020 saw one of the weirdest things to happen when Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) captain Dinesh Karthik gave up the captaincy in midst of the tournament to Eoin Morgan, this despite the team winning 4 out of its first seven matches and well on the path of playoffs’ qualification.

There were rumors that Karthik could be asked to hand over the captaincy to England batsman Eoin Morgan early in the tournament and those rumors finally came true on October 16.

However, the move failed to boost KKR’s chances, as they failed to make it into the final four after winning a total of 7 matches out of 14, with Morgan only winning 3 as captain.

Now Aakash Chopra, former India batsman, and commentator had questioned whether Karthik gave up captaincy willingly or he was made to do it.

“Firstly, I am disappointed because when you win four of your first seven matches and if you replicate that performance, then you are through, eight victories were more than enough for you to qualify. Delhi actually came second with 16 points,” Chopra said in a video shared on his Facebook page.

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“So if things go bad from there, you change the captaincy halfway, it has been said that Dinesh Karthik gave up the KKR captaincy but would he have done that?”

Karthik also failed to inspire the team with the bat while batting at no.4 spot, while Morgan slammed over 400 runs and was one of the better performers for KKR with the bat.

“Did the team’s performances improve after the captaincy was handed over to Eoin Morgan? Is Eoin Morgan the right captain will also be a big question because he is an overseas player and is he right in terms of his tactics and is he a 100% certainty in the team although his performance was good at the end,” Chopra said.

KKR was eliminated from IPL 2020 when Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Mumbai Indians in the last league match of the tournament and KKR's negative NRR came back to haunt them.