Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has been ruled out of the remainder of the 15th season of the Indian Premier League due to a rib injury.

“Ravindra Jadeja won’t be playing CSK’s next two games as he has suffered a rib cage injury. He has already gone home,” CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan told PTI on Wednesday. 

The 33-year-old apparently didn’t play the game against Delhi Capitals due to an upper body injury that he sustained during an earlier match against the Royal Challengers Bangalore. 

The injury comes days after he “relinquished” CSK captaincy and handed it back to veteran Mahendra Singh Dhoni after the team lost six out of its first 8 matches.

“Ravindra Jadeja has decided to relinquish captaincy to focus and concentrate more on his game & has requested MS Dhoni to lead CSK. MS Dhoni has accepted to lead CSK in the larger interest & to allow Jadeja to focus on his game,” CSK had said in a statement.

Jadeja has had a forgettable season as all he could manage was just 116 runs at an average of 20 in 10 games and only five wickets at an economy rate of 7.51.

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Meanwhile, the ‘Yellow brigade’ has won three out of four games since Dhoni came back as the leader.

Speaking about the captaincy change, MSD had said, “I think Jadeja knew last season he’d be captaining this year. For the first two games, I oversaw his work and let him be later. I insisted he’d take his own decisions and responsibility for them. Once you become captain, it means a lot of demands come in and can affect the player’s performance and occupy their mind which I think was the case with him. I think captaincy burdened his prep and performances, it meant he could not go with the bat and ball with the same intensity, we had a deep-midwicket fielder. We have had a lot of drops which we need to improve on. We do not want bowlers to be lost, with the younger bowlers, you need to be with them and tell them about the fields.”