5 captains who were sacked unceremoniously

#2 Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar with Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga

The not so impressive record of Sachin Tendulkar as a captain has been well documented all over. But the man himself has expressed disappointment at being sacked as the skipper during 1997 after the series against Sri Lanka.

"At the end of the series, I was unceremoniously sacked as skipper. No one from the BCCI managed to call me or inform me of my removal as captain before someone from the media called to say I was no longer captain," Tendulkar wrote in his autobiography, Playing it my way.

Although Sachin's record as the captain was not very good, his sudden removal did raise many eyebrows, as the reins were then handed over to Mohammed Azharuddin, who did not have too great a record to boot.