Shane Warne had led the Rajasthan Royals to its fairy tale title win against Chennai Super Kings in the inaugural edition of the IPL in 2008 as their captain.
In the first match of the series against Sri Lanka in Lucknow Rohit Sharma once again became T20I cricket's leading run-getter by going ahead of Martin Guptill's 3299 runs. Following these two is Virat Kohli with 3296 runs.