Most consecutive matches as captain of a team

Most consecutive matches as captain of a team in ODIs

Most consecutive matches as captain

Player	Team	Mat	From	Until
WJ Cronje	South Africa	130	6 Dec 1994	27 Mar 2000
M Azharuddin	India	98	6 Dec 1991	26 May 1996
SM Pollock	South Africa	89	12 Apr 2000	3 Mar 2003
DPMD Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	85	19 Mar 2006	8 Feb 2009
ADR Campbell	Zimbabwe	76	26 Aug 1996	24 Oct 1999
Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan	75	28 May 2011	10 Oct 2014
MS Dhoni	India	69	29 Sep 2007	18 Dec 2009
WTS Porterfield	Ireland	67	10 Jan 2015	7 Jul 2019
A Vala	Papua New Guinea	64*	4 Nov 2016	5 Apr 2023
LRD Mendis	Sri Lanka	60	19 Mar 1983	30 Oct 1987
SP Fleming	New Zealand	56	25 Mar 1999	28 Feb 2001
A Ranatunga	Sri Lanka	55	16 Jan 1996	24 Jan 1998
IVA Richards	West Indies	54	9 Mar 1985	12 Mar 1988
SR Tendulkar	India	54	28 Aug 1996	28 Dec 1997
AR Border	Australia	53	9 Apr 1987	8 Mar 1990
RB Richardson	West Indies	51	17 Oct 1991	1 Nov 1993
SR Waugh	Australia	49	11 Apr 1999	11 Jan 2001
ST Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	47	22 Aug 1999	25 Mar 2001
Waqar Younis	Pakistan	47	8 Apr 2001	27 Nov 2002
AD Mathews	Sri Lanka	47	26 Jul 2013	20 Jan 2015
Hashmatullah Shahidi	Afghanistan	46*	21 Jan 2022	21 Dec 2024
Mashrafe Mortaza	Bangladesh	45	17 May 2017	5 Jul 2019
MG Erasmus	Namibia	44*	6 Mar 2022	26 Sep 2024
SO Tikolo	Kenya	43	23 Mar 2006	19 Apr 2009
Babar Azam	Pakistan	43	30 Oct 2020	11 Nov 2023
RK Paudel	Nepal	43*	14 Nov 2022	4 Nov 2024
MA Taylor	Australia	42	14 Apr 1994	17 Mar 1996
AN Cook	England	41	3 Sep 2011	23 Jun 2013
MD Shanaka	Sri Lanka	41	18 Jul 2021	10 Oct 2023
Asghar Afghan	Afghanistan	40	16 Oct 2015	19 Feb 2018
A Ranatunga	Sri Lanka	39	5 Apr 1998	30 May 1999
AJ Finch	Australia	39	4 Nov 2018	2 Dec 2020
SA Edwards	Netherlands	39*	19 Jun 2022	11 Nov 2024
N Kapil Dev	India	38	22 Mar 1985	17 Jan 1987
RT Ponting	Australia	38	21 Jan 2003	29 Jan 2004
Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh	38	20 Jul 2007	23 Jan 2009
AR Border	Australia	37	6 Jan 1985	29 Mar 1986
Mushfiqur Rahim	Bangladesh	37	13 Oct 2011	25 Aug 2014
KC Wessels	South Africa	36	26 Feb 1992	18 Dec 1993
A Ranatunga	Sri Lanka	36	3 Aug 1994	21 Dec 1995
LK Germon	New Zealand	36	15 Nov 1995	4 Mar 1997
SP Fleming	New Zealand	36	25 Mar 1997	9 Jan 1999
DL Vettori	New Zealand	36	25 Nov 2007	6 Mar 2009
RT Ponting	Australia	36	12 Sep 2009	3 Jul 2010
ST Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	35	8 Apr 2001	5 Aug 2002
CL Hooper	West Indies	35	28 Apr 2001	9 Nov 2002
AG Cremer	Zimbabwe	35	11 Jun 2016	22 Mar 2018
MD Crowe	New Zealand	34	2 Nov 1990	4 Dec 1992
SP Fleming	New Zealand	34	24 Apr 2002	9 Nov 2003
HH Streak	Zimbabwe	34	10 Feb 2003	14 Mar 2004
Sarfaraz Ahmed	Pakistan	34	7 Apr 2017	25 Jan 2019
Saleem Malik	Pakistan	33	3 Mar 1994	26 Feb 1995
Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	33	31 Jan 2010	5 May 2011
JO Holder	West Indies	33	7 Nov 2015	27 Sep 2017
GP Howarth	New Zealand	32	21 Dec 1980	17 Mar 1983
A Ranatunga	Sri Lanka	32	15 Aug 1992	20 Feb 1994
N Hussain	England	32	13 Oct 2001	16 Feb 2003
MP Vaughan	England	32	1 Jul 2003	2 Feb 2005
P Utseya	Zimbabwe	32	29 Jul 2006	24 Jan 2008
IH Romaine	Bermuda	32*	19 Aug 2006	8 Apr 2009
BRM Taylor	Zimbabwe	32	12 Aug 2011	24 Jul 2014
EJG Morgan	England	32	15 Jan 2017	13 Jun 2018
V Kohli	India	32	2 Mar 2019	28 Mar 2021
KJ Coetzer	Scotland	32	21 Jan 2018	3 Jun 2022
PW Borren	Netherlands	31	16 Feb 2010	28 Jan 2014
AB de Villiers	South Africa	31	10 Mar 2013	19 Aug 2014
AD Mathews	Sri Lanka	31	14 Feb 2015	31 Aug 2016
A Ranatunga	Sri Lanka	30	4 Nov 1988	6 Feb 1991
T Taibu	Zimbabwe	29	20 Apr 2004	4 Sep 2005
Habibul Bashar	Bangladesh	29	23 Dec 2004	30 Jul 2006
BC Lara	West Indies	29	29 Apr 2006	21 Jan 2007
Shoaib Malik	Pakistan	29	18 May 2007	29 Jun 2008
DJG Sammy	West Indies	29	15 Oct 2011	10 Feb 2013
EJG Morgan	England	29	9 Jun 2015	4 Sep 2016
RGD Willis	England	28	2 Jun 1982	9 Mar 1984
A Flower	Zimbabwe	28	10 Nov 1993	6 Mar 1996
SC Ganguly	India	28	28 Jan 2002	18 Nov 2002
SC Ganguly	India	28	6 Feb 2004	12 Apr 2005
P Utseya	Zimbabwe	28	17 Oct 2008	27 Oct 2009
AJ Strauss	England	28	19 Jun 2010	26 Mar 2011
WTS Porterfield	Ireland	28	26 Sep 2010	6 May 2014
Mohammad Nabi	Afghanistan	28	6 Mar 2013	13 Mar 2015
AR Border	Australia	27	26 Feb 1991	6 Dec 1992
HH Streak	Zimbabwe	27	27 Sep 2000	11 Apr 2001
GC Smith	South Africa	27	25 Jan 2004	27 Feb 2005
Habibul Bashar	Bangladesh	27	7 Oct 2006	12 May 2007
BC Lara	West Indies	26	16 May 1999	11 Jan 2000
Shakib Al Hasan	Bangladesh	26	26 Jul 2009	21 Jun 2010
V Kohli	India	26	15 Jan 2017	29 Oct 2017
Ahmed Raza	United Arab Emirates	26	8 Dec 2019	14 Aug 2022
RD Berrington	Scotland	26*	1 Dec 2022	4 Nov 2024
SC Ganguly	India	25	9 Mar 2000	11 Dec 2000
SR Waugh	Australia	25	26 Jan 2001	3 Feb 2002
Inzamam-ul-Haq	Pakistan	25	3 Dec 2003	30 Sep 2004
R Dravid	India	25	21 Jan 2007	8 Sep 2007
E Chigumbura	Zimbabwe	25	10 Jul 2015	6 Jan 2016
Zeeshan Maqsood	Oman	25	27 Apr 2019	5 Mar 2022
MD Patel	United States of America	25	28 May 2022	18 Jun 2023
SD Hope	West Indies	25*	18 Jun 2023	12 Dec 2024

* indicates an ongoing sequence

Records includes the following current or recent matches:

New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Auckland, 3rd ODI, Jan 11, 2025 [ODI # 4824]

New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Hamilton, 2nd ODI, Jan 8, 2025 [ODI # 4823]

New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Wellington, 1st ODI, Jan 5, 2025 [ODI # 4822]