The Volts seem set to take a different approach this season as players perhaps share the captaincy role.
The team was caught out last season as a result of the form of Rob Nicol. He captained the team in all three formats but, with the exception of the twenty20 tournament, really struggled for runs.
He announced his retirement earlier this month, leaving coach Rob Walter with the job of appointing a replacement.
The departure of senior players Derek de Boorder, Neil Wagner and Jimmy Neesham has not made Walter's task any easy.
Brad Wilson and Hamish Rutherford shared the captaincy in 2016-17, so they are strong options. But Walter indicated he wanted to give players opportunities to foster their leadership skills.
''What is imperative is we need to grow leadership in the group,'' Walter said.
''A portion of that is captaincy.
''It is still early days for us as a group to say this person or that person is going to be the captain.
''We are not going to do that. What we will do is identify some people in our group who we feel could do that and then also potentially provide some opportunities for guys along the way to grow themselves in that space - whether that be doing that [in the provincial A tournament] first and then building into the Volts.
''We are in a position now where, along with investing game time opportunity to our younger guys, we also have to give them leadership opportunities which captaincy is only a portion of.''
How that will play out is not clear, although Walter expressed a preference for assigning the captaincy on a ''campaign by campaign'' basis.
''We may have a different captain for different formats. We ran into a few issues when our skipper lost form [last summer] and so that brought about a dynamic.
''We obviously want to make sure that, first things first, the captain is going to make the team and we can't decide that now.
''I would say we would probably be doing it campaign by campaign and seeing what our line-up is going to look like, and seeing what guys are going to make the team.''
Nicol has not responded to Otago Daily Times interview requests since announcing his retirement on a social network earlier this month.
''He keeps his cards pretty close to his chest but I mean we understand there were some family reasons behind it,'' Walter said.
''It was probably a big portion of it, to be fair. It is very tough ... having two children and not being able to be part of their lives on a daily basis.''
Nicol also struggled with injuries and had a lean run, particularly in first-class cricket.
''You put all those things together and you can understand why he thought this was the time to call it to a close.''
