David Warner will not become captain of any IPL team, last year's events haven't gone down well: Aakash Chopra

Aakash Chopra said that while David Warner will be an expensive buy, he won't be made captain by any team because of his fallout with SunRisers Hyderabad in the last IPL season.

David Warner will be an expensive buy but he may not be made captain of any team in the Indian Premier League (IPL), former India opener Aakash Chopra has said. Warner, who had a fallout with SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) last season, being unceremoniously sacked as captain and then dropped from the team altogether during the season.

Chopra said that while there could be a bidding war between multiple teams for the batter, there is little chance that any of them could consider him for captaincy considering what happened last season.

"They can think about it but in my opinion, they will not make him the captain. I believe David Warner will not become the captain of any team although three teams are probably looking for a skipper. Even if we leave out Punjab, still two teams are looking for a captain," he said on his YouTube channel.

"He will definitely go to some team or the other. He will go expensive as well but no team will consider him as a captain, that is what I believe because IPL is a small family, everyone has got an idea what happened last year, what were the reasons and the problems. It hasn't really gone down very well amongst the players and the franchises," he explained.

Warner scored just 195 runs in eight matches last season, which was the first time he scored less than 500 runs in a season in six years. However, he said that his dip in form had solely been because he hardly played before the second half of the IPL and he went on to play a leading role in Australia's run to their maiden T20 World Cup title just a month after the end of the season. He was also Australia's second highest run scorer in the Ashes which they won 4-0.