10 Youngest Captains in IPL History

Producer: Peuli Bakshi

Shubman Gill

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Virat Kohli

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Steven Smith

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Shreyas Iyer

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Rishabh Pant

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Rashid Khan

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Suresh Raina

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Dinesh Karthik

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Sam Curran

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Rohit Sharma

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