- Indian national cricket captains
This is a list of all cricketers who have captained Indian national cricket team at the international level. The list includes all Indian captains of men's cricket, women's cricket and youth cricket. 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 atLord's . They played only seven tests, which were all against England, before theSecond World War , losing five matches and drawing twice. Their first game against other opposition came in 1947–48 when they played Australia.The Indian team's greatest successes came in 1983, when they won the
Cricket World Cup under the captaincy ofKapil Dev , and in 1999–2000 when they won the Under-19 World Cup under the captaincy ofMohammad Kaif . Also, under the captaincy ofMahendra Singh Dhoni , India won the inaugral ICC T20 World Cup. India's most successful captain in Test cricket isSourav Ganguly , who has won 21 of his 49 Tests at the helm.Mithali Raj led India to its best result in Women's ODI cricket when the team advanced to the finals of the 2005 Women's Cricket World Cup. Raj is also one of the three women's captains who have led their side to a victory in women's Test cricket, the others beingShantha Rangaswamy andMamatha Maben .__TOC__Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, it denotes that the player deputised for the appointed captain or was appointed for a minor proportion in a series.
Men's cricket
Test match captains
India has played 421 Test Matches (as of August 11, 2008). This is the list of the 31 cricketers who have captained the Indian cricket team for at least one Test match.
The table of results is complete as of 11 August 2008.
Women's One-Day International captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the
Indian women's cricket team for at least onewomen's one-day international . The World Cup Final appearance against Australia in 2004/5 represents India's best performance in a Women's World Cup.The table of results is complete as of the end of the 2006/07 season.
References
External links
* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/ CricketArchive]
* [http://www.cricinfo.com/ Cricinfo]
*"Wisden Cricketers' Almanack "
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