Individual List Captains

Cricket in Test matches

List of captains

Player	Span	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	Draw	NR	W/L	%W	%L	%NR	%
James Lillywhite (ENG)	1877-1877	2	1	1	0	0	0	1.00	50.00	50.00	0.00	50.00
Lord Harris (ENG)	1879-1884	4	2	1	0	1	0	2.00	50.00	25.00	0.00	66.66
A Shaw (ENG)	1881-1882	4	0	2	0	2	0	0.00	0.00	50.00	0.00	0.00
AN Hornby (ENG)	1882-1884	2	0	1	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	50.00	0.00	0.00
Hon.IFW Bligh (ENG)	1882-1883	4	2	2	0	0	0	1.00	50.00	50.00	0.00	50.00
A Shrewsbury (ENG)	1884-1887	7	5	2	0	0	0	2.50	71.42	28.57	0.00	71.42
AG Steel (ENG)	1886-1888	4	3	1	0	0	0	3.00	75.00	25.00	0.00	75.00
WW Read (ENG)	1888-1888	1	1	0	0	0	0	-	100.00	0.00	0.00	100.00
WG Grace (ENG)	1888-1899	13	8	3	0	2	0	2.66	61.53	23.07	0.00	72.72
AE Stoddart (ENG)	1893-1898	8	3	4	0	1	0	0.75	37.50	50.00	0.00	42.85
AC MacLaren (ENG)	1897-1909	22	4	11	0	7	0	0.36	18.18	50.00	0.00	26.66
HM Taberer (SA)	1902-1902	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
JH Anderson (SA)	1902-1902	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
EA Halliwell (SA)	1902-1902	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
PF Warner (ENG)	1903-1904	5	3	2	0	0	0	1.50	60.00	40.00	0.00	60.00
Hon.FS Jackson (ENG)	1905-1905	5	2	0	0	3	0	-	40.00	0.00	0.00	100.00
FL Fane (ENG)	1907-1908	3	1	2	0	0	0	0.50	33.33	66.66	0.00	33.33
AO Jones (ENG)	1908-1908	2	0	2	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
PW Sherwell (SA)	1910-1911	5	1	4	0	0	0	0.25	20.00	80.00	0.00	20.00
JWHT Douglas (ENG)	1911-1921	12	4	8	0	0	0	0.50	33.33	66.66	0.00	33.33
F Mitchell (SA)	1912-1912	2	0	2	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
CB Fry (ENG)	1912-1912	3	1	0	0	2	0	-	33.33	0.00	0.00	100.00
LJ Tancred (SA)	1912-1912	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
Lord Tennyson (ENG)	1921-1921	3	0	1	0	2	0	0.00	0.00	33.33	0.00	0.00
HW Taylor (SA)	1921-1921	3	0	1	0	2	0	0.00	0.00	33.33	0.00	0.00
AER Gilligan (ENG)	1924-1925	5	1	4	0	0	0	0.25	20.00	80.00	0.00	20.00
AW Carr (ENG)	1926-1926	4	0	0	0	4	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
APF Chapman (ENG)	1926-1930	9	6	1	0	2	0	6.00	66.66	11.11	0.00	85.71
JC White (ENG)	1929-1929	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
AHH Gilligan (ENG)	1930-1930	4	1	0	0	3	0	-	25.00	0.00	0.00	100.00
RES Wyatt (ENG)	1930-1934	6	1	2	0	3	0	0.50	16.66	33.33	0.00	33.33
GC Grant (WI)	1930-1931	5	1	4	0	0	0	0.25	20.00	80.00	0.00	20.00
DR Jardine (ENG)	1931-1933	9	5	1	0	3	0	5.00	55.55	11.11	0.00	83.33
HB Cameron (SA)	1931-1932	7	2	5	0	0	0	0.40	28.57	71.42	0.00	28.57
CF Walters (ENG)	1934-1934	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
HF Wade (SA)	1935-1936	5	0	4	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	80.00	0.00	0.00
GOB Allen (ENG)	1936-1937	5	2	3	0	0	0	0.66	40.00	60.00	0.00	40.00
RWV Robins (ENG)	1937-1937	3	1	0	0	2	0	-	33.33	0.00	0.00	100.00
WR Hammond (ENG)	1938-1947	9	1	3	0	5	0	0.33	11.11	33.33	0.00	25.00
WA Brown (AUS)	1946-1946	1	1	0	0	0	0	-	100.00	0.00	0.00	100.00
WA Hadlee (NZ)	1946-1946	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
NWD Yardley (ENG)	1947-1948	6	0	5	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	83.33	0.00	0.00
L Amarnath (IND)	1947-1948	5	0	4	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	80.00	0.00	0.00
FG Mann (ENG)	1949-1949	2	0	0	0	2	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
FR Brown (ENG)	1949-1951	9	2	4	0	3	0	0.50	22.22	44.44	0.00	33.33
AD Nourse (SA)	1949-1950	5	0	4	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	80.00	0.00	0.00
JDC Goddard (WI)	1951-1952	6	2	3	0	1	0	0.66	33.33	50.00	0.00	40.00
JB Stollmeyer (WI)	1952-1955	3	0	2	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	66.66	0.00	0.00
JE Cheetham (SA)	1952-1954	12	7	2	0	3	0	3.50	58.33	16.66	0.00	77.77
L Hutton (ENG)	1953-1955	12	6	1	0	5	0	6.00	50.00	8.33	0.00	85.71
DS Atkinson (WI)	1955-1956	7	3	3	0	1	0	1.00	42.85	42.85	0.00	50.00
AH Kardar (PAK)	1955-1956	4	3	0	0	1	0	-	75.00	0.00	0.00	100.00
Ghulam Ahmed (IND)	1955-1955	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
PR Umrigar (IND)	1955-1956	7	2	2	0	3	0	1.00	28.57	28.57	0.00	50.00
PBH May (ENG)	1956-1961	20	8	6	0	6	0	1.33	40.00	30.00	0.00	57.14
DJ McGlew (SA)	1957-1962	6	2	2	0	2	0	1.00	33.33	33.33	0.00	50.00
CB van Ryneveld (SA)	1957-1958	4	0	3	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	75.00	0.00	0.00
Fazal Mahmood (PAK)	1959-1959	2	0	1	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	50.00	0.00	0.00
Imtiaz Ahmed (PAK)	1959-1959	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
GS Ramchand (IND)	1959-1960	5	1	2	0	2	0	0.50	20.00	40.00	0.00	33.33
FMM Worrell (WI)	1960-1961	5	1	2	1	1	0	0.50	20.00	40.00	0.00	37.50
MC Cowdrey (ENG)	1961-1968	6	1	2	0	3	0	0.50	16.66	33.33	0.00	33.33
ER Dexter (ENG)	1962-1964	13	4	2	0	7	0	2.00	30.76	15.38	0.00	66.66
TL Goddard (SA)	1963-1964	8	1	1	0	6	0	1.00	12.50	12.50	0.00	50.00
MAK Pataudi (IND)	1964-1969	22	7	9	0	6	0	0.77	31.81	40.90	0.00	43.75
Hanif Mohammad (PAK)	1964-1965	8	2	0	0	6	0	-	25.00	0.00	0.00	100.00
GS Sobers (WI)	1965-1972	18	4	5	0	9	0	0.80	22.22	27.77	0.00	44.44
MJK Smith (ENG)	1965-1966	11	4	1	0	6	0	4.00	36.36	9.09	0.00	80.00
PL van der Merwe (SA)	1966-1967	5	3	1	0	1	0	3.00	60.00	20.00	0.00	75.00
CG Borde (IND)	1967-1967	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
TW Graveney (ENG)	1968-1968	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
R Illingworth (ENG)	1969-1973	19	9	2	0	8	0	4.50	47.36	10.52	0.00	81.81
Intikhab Alam (PAK)	1969-1973	9	1	4	0	4	0	0.25	11.11	44.44	0.00	20.00
A Bacher (SA)	1970-1970	4	4	0	0	0	0	-	100.00	0.00	0.00	100.00
RB Kanhai (WI)	1973-1973	5	0	2	0	3	0	0.00	0.00	40.00	0.00	0.00
IM Chappell (AUS)	1973-1974	6	3	1	0	2	0	3.00	50.00	16.66	0.00	75.00
BE Congdon (NZ)	1973-1974	6	1	3	0	2	0	0.33	16.66	50.00	0.00	25.00
MH Denness (ENG)	1974-1975	8	2	4	0	2	0	0.50	25.00	50.00	0.00	33.33
JH Edrich (ENG)	1975-1975	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
AW Greig (ENG)	1975-1977	4	0	1	0	3	0	0.00	0.00	25.00	0.00	0.00
CH Lloyd (WI)	1975-1985	25	12	8	0	5	0	1.50	48.00	32.00	0.00	60.00
SM Gavaskar (IND)	1976-1981	13	4	2	0	7	0	2.00	30.76	15.38	0.00	66.66
BS Bedi (IND)	1976-1978	10	4	4	0	2	0	1.00	40.00	40.00	0.00	50.00
Mushtaq Mohammad (PAK)	1976-1979	11	5	2	0	4	0	2.50	45.45	18.18	0.00	71.42
GS Chappell (AUS)	1977-1982	8	4	1	0	3	0	4.00	50.00	12.50	0.00	80.00
GM Turner (NZ)	1977-1977	2	0	1	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	50.00	0.00	0.00
JM Brearley (ENG)	1977-1981	21	14	4	0	3	0	3.50	66.66	19.04	0.00	77.77
G Boycott (ENG)	1978-1978	3	1	1	0	1	0	1.00	33.33	33.33	0.00	50.00
AI Kallicharran (WI)	1978-1978	3	1	1	0	1	0	1.00	33.33	33.33	0.00	50.00
DL Murray (WI)	1979-1979	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-
Javed Miandad (PAK)	1980-1993	16	7	4	0	5	0	1.75	43.75	25.00	0.00	63.63
IT Botham (ENG)	1980-1981	3	0	1	0	2	0	0.00	0.00	33.33	0.00	0.00
GP Howarth (NZ)	1980-1982	5	1	2	0	2	0	0.50	20.00	40.00	0.00	33.33
MG Burgess (NZ)	1980-1980	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
Imran Khan (PAK)	1982-1990	10	3	2	0	5	0	1.50	30.00	20.00	0.00	60.00
RGD Willis (ENG)	1982-1984	12	4	4	0	4	0	1.00	33.33	33.33	0.00	50.00
DS de Silva (SL)	1983-1983	2	0	2	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	100.00	0.00	0.00
LRD Mendis (SL)	1983-1987	5	0	3	0	2	0	0.00	0.00	60.00	0.00	0.00
Zaheer Abbas (PAK)	1983-1984	6	2	1	0	3	0	2.00	33.33	16.66	0.00	66.66
IVA Richards (WI)	1984-1991	18	8	3	0	7	0	2.66	44.44	16.66	0.00	72.72

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Performances in matches that overlap decades are credited to the year in which they occurred - this results in some unknown data, especially in regard to bowling figures
Performances in matches that overlap years are credited to the year in which they occurred - this results in some unknown data, especially in regard to bowling figures

Records includes the following current or recent matches:

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka at Chattogram, ICC World Test Championship 2nd Test, Mar 30-Apr 3, 2024 [Test # 2537]

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka at Sylhet, ICC World Test Championship 1st Test, Mar 22-25, 2024 [Test # 2536]

New Zealand v Australia at Christchurch, ICC World Test Championship 2nd Test, Mar 8-11, 2024 [Test # 2535]