Indian national cricket captains
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This is a list of all men, boys and women who have captained an Indian national cricket team at official international level. India became a full member of the Imperial Cricket Conference (now the International Cricket Council) on 31 May 1926. On 25 June 1932 it became the Test nation after England, Australia, South Africa, the West Indies and New Zealand when they took on England at Lord's. They played only seven Tests, which were all against England, before the Second World War, losing five matches and drawing twice. Their first game against other opposition came in 1947/8 when they played Australia.
The Indian teams' greatest successes came in 1983, when they won the Cricket World Cup under the captaincy of Kapil Dev, and in 1999/2000 when they won the Under-19 World Cup under the captaincy of Mohammad Kaif. In Test cricket, India's most successful captain is former captain, Sourav Ganguly, who - as of January 2006 - has won 21 of his 49 Tests at the helm.
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[edit] Men's cricket
[edit] Test match captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian cricket team for at least one Test match.
Notes:
- 1 Includes one tie
- 2 Asian Test Championship
[edit] Men's One-Day International captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian cricket team for at least one one-day international. The table of results is complete to the sixth ODI against Pakistan in 2004/5. The next ODI result to be entered is that for against the West Indies on 1 August. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to an ODI match series in which he captained at least one ODI, that denotes that player was captain for a minor proportion in a series. The most successful captain in term's of percentage win rate (for those who have captained more than one match) is Sourav Ganguly. Next in the list comes Kapil Dev, the only Indian captain to have lifted the Cricket World Cup.
| Indian ODI captains | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Name | Year | Played | Won | Tied | Lost | No result |
| 1 | Ajit Wadekar | 1974 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan | 1975-1979 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 3 | Bishen Singh Bedi | 1975/6-1978/9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | Sunil Gavaskar | 1980/1-1985/6 | 38 | 14 | 0 | 22 | 2 |
| 5 | Gundappa Viswanath | 1980/1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | Kapil Dev | 1982/3-1992/1993 | 74 | 40 | 0 | 32 | 2 |
| 7 | Syed Kirmani | 1983/4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | Mohinder Amarnath | 1984/1985 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Ravi Shastri | 1986/7-1991/2 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 10 | Dilip Vengsarkar | 1987/8-1988/9 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 11 | Krishnamachari Srikkanth | 1989/90 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 12 | Mohammad Azharuddin | 1989/90-1999 | 173 | 89 | 2 | 76 | 6 |
| 13 | Sachin Tendulkar | 1996-1999/2000 | 73 | 23 | 1 | 43 | 6 |
| 14 | Ajay Jadeja | 1997/8-1999/2000 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 15 | Sourav Ganguly | 1999-2005 | 1413 | 73 | 0 | 633 | 5 |
| 16 | Rahul Dravid | 2000/1-2004/5 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 17 | Anil Kumble | 2001/2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Virender Sehwag | 2005 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Note:
- 3 Sourav Ganguly also captained the ACC Asian XI in the one-day international against the ICC World XI held on 10 January 2005 for the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal. The ACC Asian XI lost that ODI.
[edit] Youth cricket
[edit] Test match captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian Under-19 cricket team for at least one under-19 Test match. The table of results is complete to the third "Test" against England in 2004/5. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player was captain for a minor proportion in a series. The very nature of Under-19 cricket means that in practice no youth captains the side for more than one year. Three men, Srikkanth, Shastri and Dravid, have gone on to captain the senior side.
| Indian Under-19 Test match captains | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Name | Year | Opposition | Location | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn |
| 1 | Krishnamachari Srikkanth | 1978/9† | Pakistan | India | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Vedraj Chauhan | 1978/9 | Pakistan | India | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Ravi Shastri | 1981 | England | England | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Saba Karim | 1984/5 | Australia | India | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | Anju Mudkavi | 1984/5† | Australia | India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Amikar Dayal | 1986/7 | Australia | Australia | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | Myluahanan Senthilnathan | 1987/8 | New Zealand | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | Janardhanan Ramdas | 1988/9 | Pakistan | Pakistan | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Ranjib Biswal | 1989/90 | Pakistan | India | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Rahul Dravid | 1991/2 | New Zealand | India | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Manoj Joglekar | 1992/3 | England | India | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Sridharan Sriram | 1993/4 | Australia | India | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Amit Sharma | 1994 | England | England | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Kiran Powar | 1994/5 | Australia | Australia | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 15 | Sanjay Raul | 1995/6 | South Africa | India | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Ajit Agarkar | 1996/7† | Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 17 | Jyoti Yadav | 1996/7 | Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Reetinder Sodhi | 1998/9 | Sri Lanka | India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Ajay Ratra | 2000/1 | England | India | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 20 | Manvindar Bisla | 2002† | England | England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | Yalaka Ganeswara Rao | 2002 | England | England | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Ambati Rayudu | 2004/5 | England | India | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
[edit] Youth One-Day International captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian U-19 cricket team for at least one Under-19 one-day international. The table of results is complete to the end of the Afro-Asia Cup in 2005/6. India's greatest success in Under-19 ODI cricket was in 1999/2000, when they won the Under-19 World Cup under the captaincy of Mohammad Kaif.
| Indian Under-19 ODI captains | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Name | Year | Played | Won | Tied | Lost | No result |
| 1 | Ravi Shastri | 1981 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Saba Karim | 1984/5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | Anju Mudkavi | 1984/5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Amikar Dayal | 1986/7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | Myluahanan Senthilnathan | 1987/8 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 6 | Arjan Kripal Singh | 1987/8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Ranjib Biswal | 1989/90 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | Rahul Dravid | 1991/2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | Manoj Joglekar | 1992/3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Amit Sharma | 1993/4-1994 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | Kiran Powar | 1994/5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 12 | Sanjay Raul | 1995/6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Amit Pagnis | 1997/8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | Reetinder Sodhi | 1998/9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Mohammad Kaif | 1998/9-1999/2000 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Ajay Ratra | 2000/1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | Parthiv Patel | 2001/2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | Yalaka Ganeswara Rao | 2002 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Ambati Rayudu | 2003/4 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | Dinesh Karthik | 2003/4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | Manoj Tiwary | 2004/5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | Ravikant Shukla | 2005/6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
[edit] Women's cricket
[edit] Test match captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian women's cricket team for at least one women's Test match. The table of results is complete to the Test against New Zealand in 2003/4. The next Test match has not yet been scheduled. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which she captained at least one Test, that denotes that player was captain for a minor proportion in a series. Overall India have played 30 women's Tests, winning twice, drawing 23 times and losing five times.
| Indian women's Test match captains | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Name | Year | Opposition | Location | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn |
| 1 | Shantha Rangaswamy | 1976/7 | West Indies | India | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1976/7 | New Zealand | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 1976/7 | Australia | Australia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1983/4 | Australia | India | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Total | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| 2 | Nilima Jogalekar | 1984/1985† | New Zealand | India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Diana Edulji | 1984/5 | England | India | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1986 | England | England | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Total | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||
| 4 | Shubhangi Kulkarni | 1986† | England | England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1990/1 | Australia | Australia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 5 | Sandhya Agarwal | 1990/1† | Australia | Australia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | Purnima Rau | 1994/5 | New Zealand | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995/6 | England | India | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 7 | Pramila Bhatt | 1995/6† | England | India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Chanderkanta Kaul | 1999 | England | England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Anjum Chopra | 2001/2 | England | India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001/2 | South Africa | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2002 | England | England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Total | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 10 | Mamatha Maben | 2003/4 | New Zealand | India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[edit] Women's One-Day International captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian women's cricket team for at least one women's one-day international. The table of results is complete to the World Cup Final against Australia in 2004/5, which represents India's best performance in a Women's World Cup. The next ODI has not yet been scheduled. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which she captained at least one Test, that denotes that player deputised for the appointed captain or were appointed by the home authority for a minor proportion in a series. Two women have captained India in a women's ODI without captaining India in a women's Test.
| Indian women's ODI captains | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Name | Year | Played | Won | Tied | Lost | No result |
| 1 | Diana Edulji | 1977/8- 1993 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 2 | Shantha Rangaswamy | 1981/2-1983/4 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| 3 | Shubhangi Kulkarni | 1986 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Purnima Rau | 1994/5-1995/6 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 5 | Pramila Bhatt | 1995/6-1997/8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | Chanderkanta Kaul | 1999 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Anju Jain | 2000/1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 8 | Anjum Chopra | 2001/2-2002/3 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| 9 | Mamatha Maben | 2003/4-2004/5 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 10 | Mithali Raj | 2003/4-2004/5 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| National cricket captains |
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