# captaincy

#IPL 2026#Pat Cummins#Ishan Kishan

Pat Cummins Holds the SRH Captaincy as Ishan Kishan Take-Over Push Stalls

Sunrisers Hyderabad

5 May 2026

Sunrisers Hyderabad's IPL 2026 produced internal franchise discussion about whether Ishan Kishan should take over the SRH captaincy from Pat Cummins. The Cummins-Kishan internal debate, reported across cricket media, saw the franchise eventually back Cummins through the season — partly on the strength of his bowling contribution, partly on the difficulty of switching captains mid-tournament.

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Bumrah-Hardik Field-Placement Clash — MI vs PBKS, IPL 2026

Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings

16 April 2026

Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya and senior bowler Jasprit Bumrah were involved in a visible on-field disagreement over field placements during MI's defeat to Punjab Kings at the Wankhede Stadium on 16 April 2026. The incident, broadcast live, came during PBKS's chase as Prabhsimran Singh — eventually 80 not out and player of the match — was building his innings. After Bumrah dropped a catch from Pandya's bowling, Pandya was filmed reacting angrily towards his senior bowler. The defeat was MI's fourth in a row.

#IPL 2026#Mumbai Indians#Jasprit Bumrah

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Virat Kohli Removed as ODI Captain — BCCI Power Play

India (internal)

8 December 2021

Virat Kohli was stripped of the ODI captaincy and replaced by Rohit Sharma in a move he claimed was made without prior consultation, exposing rifts within the BCCI and Indian cricket's power structure.

#virat kohli#captaincy#bcci

#steve-waugh#australia#captaincy

Steve Waugh Takes the Captaincy — Australia's Era Begins, 1999

West Indies vs Australia

1999-03-04

In February 1999 Mark Taylor retired and Steve Waugh became Australia's Test captain. His first series — the Caribbean tour — was a 2-2 dramatic draw featuring Brian Lara's 213 and 153 not out. From there Waugh built the most dominant Test team in cricket history, including a record 16 consecutive Test wins.

#sachin tendulkar#azharuddin#captaincy

Sachin Tendulkar vs Mohammad Azharuddin Captaincy Rivalry

India (internal)

1 January 1997

Sachin Tendulkar's brief and unhappy stint as India captain in the late 1990s, replacing Azharuddin, was marked by poor results, factional politics, and the eventual return of captaincy to Azharuddin.

#hansie-cronje#south-africa#pakistan

Hansie Cronje Becomes Test Captain — South Africa, 1994

Pakistan vs South Africa

1994-10-13

In October 1994, at age 25, Hansie Cronje took over as full-time South African Test captain after Kepler Wessels stepped down. He was the youngest South African captain in 96 years. Over the next six years he would lead South Africa to 27 Test wins, 99 ODI victories — and eventually the match-fixing scandal that destroyed his career.

#imran-khan#pakistan#1992-world-cup

Imran Khan Retires — Trophy Lifted, Career Closed, March 1992

Pakistan vs England

1992-03-25

Immediately after lifting the World Cup at the MCG on March 25, 1992, Imran Khan announced his retirement from international cricket. At 39, the cornered tigers' captain walked away on the highest possible note: world champion, in his last match, with a personal score of 72.

#imran-khan#pakistan#1992-world-cup

Imran Khan's 'Cornered Tigers' — Pakistan's 1992 World Cup Rallying Cry

Pakistan

1992-03-25

Pakistan won just one of their first five matches at the 1992 World Cup and were one rained-out point from elimination. Captain Imran Khan, wearing a t-shirt with a tiger printed on it, told his players to 'fight like cornered tigers' — and the team won every match thereafter, lifting the trophy on March 25 at the MCG.

#clive-lloyd#west-indies#captaincy

Clive Lloyd Retires from Captaincy — End of an Era, 1985

West Indies

1985-01-20

Clive Lloyd retired from international cricket and the West Indies captaincy at the end of the 1984-85 Australian tour, ending an 11-year reign that included two World Cup finals, the Blackwash, and the most successful captaincy in cricket history at the time.

#viv-richards#west-indies#captaincy

Viv Richards Becomes West Indies Captain — 1985

West Indies

1985-02-15

Viv Richards inherited the West Indies captaincy from Clive Lloyd in 1985 and led the side through a six-year peak in which he never lost a Test series — a captaincy distinction unique in modern cricket history.

#allan-border#australia#captaincy

Allan Border's Captaincy — Australia's 1980s Reconstruction

Australia

1984-12-15

Allan Border inherited a broken Australian Test side from Kim Hughes in 1984 and, by the end of the decade, had rebuilt it into the team that would win the 1989 Ashes 4-0 and dominate world cricket for the next twenty years.

#imran-khan#pakistan#captaincy

Imran Khan's Captaincy — Pakistan's Transformation 1982-89

Pakistan

1982-04-01

Imran Khan's first captaincy stint between 1982 and 1989 transformed Pakistan from a talented but inconsistent side into the team that would win the 1992 World Cup and dominate the 1990s.

#ian-botham#england#captaincy

Ian Botham Resigns the England Captaincy — Lord's, 1981

England, Australia

1981-07-07

After making a pair at Lord's and presiding over a 12-Test winless captaincy run, Ian Botham resigned the England captaincy minutes before the selectors were going to sack him.

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Greg Chappell's Four Ducks in a Row — Australian Summer 1981-82

Australia

1981-12-12

Australian captain Greg Chappell, the most prolific batsman in the country, made four ducks in a row across Tests and ODIs during the 1981-82 home summer — and seven ducks across the season — earning the temporary nickname 'Chappello'.

#greg-chappell#australia#ducks

#garry sobers#west indies#captaincy

Garry Sobers Takes the West Indies Captaincy — 1965

West Indies vs Australia

1965-03-03

When Bob Simpson's Australia arrived in the Caribbean in early 1965, Garfield Sobers led West Indies into a Test for the first time as full-time captain. He inherited the job from the retired Frank Worrell and within five Tests had won the Frank Worrell Trophy 2-1 on home soil — the first time West Indies had ever held it.

#mansur ali khan pataudi#tiger pataudi#india

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi — Youngest Test Captain at 21, March 1962

West Indies vs India

1962-03-23

Six days after Charlie Griffith's bouncer fractured Nari Contractor's skull, India promoted the 21-year-old vice-captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi to lead the side in the third Test at Bridgetown on 23 March 1962. At 21 years and 77 days he became the youngest Test captain in history — a record he held for 42 years. Pataudi had lost the use of his right eye in a car crash in Hove eight months earlier.

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Frank Worrell — The First Black West Indies Captain, 1960

West Indies

1960-09-15

After more than three decades of West Indies Test cricket being captained exclusively by white men, Frank Worrell was appointed as the regular captain for the 1960-61 tour of Australia. The decision followed a year-long campaign by C.L.R. James in the Trinidad newspaper The Nation, which framed the colour bar in West Indies captaincy as a colonial relic that had to fall. Worrell would justify the choice with a tour that revived Test cricket and earned the team a half-million-strong farewell parade in Melbourne.

#frank worrell#clr james#west indies

#england#len-hutton#captaincy

Len Hutton — England's First Professional Test Captain, 1952

England vs India

1952-06-05

When MCC named Len Hutton to lead England in the first Test against India in June 1952, it broke a tradition that had governed English cricket for more than half a century — only amateurs led the national side. Hutton, a Yorkshire professional and the country's leading batsman, refused to relinquish his professional status to take the job. The decision marked a quiet but decisive crack in cricket's class divide.

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Vizzy's Captaincy and the 1936 Indian Tour Farce

England v India

1936-06-27

The 1936 Indian tour of England was captained by the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram — 'Vizzy' — a princely Test cricketer whose 8-Test record at 8.25 was earned through an absurd political appointment. Vizzy mismanaged a talented squad, alienated CK Nayudu, sent the brilliant Lala Amarnath home before the first Test on a discipline charge, and led India to a 2-0 series defeat. The tour became a byword for princely interference in Indian cricket and was cited for decades afterward in arguments for democratic selection.

#india#vizzy#1936

#ck-nayudu#india#first-test

C.K. Nayudu Leads India in Inaugural Test — Lord's, 1932

England v India

1932-06-25

On 25 June 1932 Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu led India onto Lord's for India's first Test match, the first non-white captain of an Empire side at headquarters. Mohammad Nissar's three early wickets reduced England to 19 for 3 and India lost by only 158 runs in a result that took English critics by surprise.

Warwick Armstrong's 'Big Ship' Crew — Cricket's First Ashes Whitewash, 1920-21

Australia v England

1921-03-01

When Warwick Armstrong's Australians sealed the fifth Test on 1 March 1921, they had become the first side in cricket history to win an Ashes series 5-0. Captained from the front by the 22-stone all-rounder nicknamed 'The Big Ship', a side rebuilding from the Great War crushed Johnny Douglas's England in every match of a series that would not be matched in scale until Ricky Ponting's team in 2006-07.

#ashes#australia#england

#lionel-tennyson#ashes#1921

Lionel Tennyson Bats with One Hand — Headingley Ashes, 1921

England v Australia

1921-07-04

Captaining England in only his second Test, the Honourable Lionel Tennyson split his left hand fielding a Macartney drive, returned the next day to bat virtually one-handed, and made 63 and 36 against the Gregory-McDonald attack — an act of leadership remembered for a century as one of the bravest innings ever played by an England captain.

#stanley-jackson#ashes#1905

Stanley Jackson — Five Tosses, Two Tests, Ashes Held 1905

England, Australia

1905-08-21

Captaining England for the first time in 1905, Stanley Jackson won all five tosses against Joe Darling, topped both batting and bowling averages on either side (492 runs at 70.28; 13 wickets at 15.46), and led England to a 2-0 series win to retain the Ashes. He retired from Test cricket immediately afterwards, never having toured Australia.

#joe-darling#australia#captaincy

Joe Darling's Australian Captaincy — 1899 to 1905

Australia

1905-08-15

Joe Darling led Australia in three separate Ashes series — 1899, 1902 and 1905 — and on the 1901-02 and 1902 tours commanded the Australian touring sides at the height of the country's Edwardian cricket. A left-handed batter from South Australia, he combined a measured tactical sense with the durability of the bush cricketer and was the first Australian captain to win an Ashes series in England since 1888.

Plum Warner — First MCC Tour Captain to Australia, 1903-04

England, Australia

1904-03-05

Pelham 'Plum' Warner captained the first MCC-organised tour to Australia in 1903-04, regaining the Ashes 3-2 — England's first Ashes series win since 1896. Warner's selection was controversial (Archie MacLaren refused to tour because of it), but the campaign produced R.E. Foster's 287, Bosanquet's googly debut and Warner's own bestselling book 'How We Recovered The Ashes'.

#plum-warner#mcc#england

#archie-maclaren#lancashire#1895

Archie MacLaren — 424 at Taunton (1895) and the Lancashire Captaincy

Lancashire, Somerset

1895-07-16

Archibald Campbell MacLaren scored 424 for Lancashire v Somerset at Taunton on 15-16 July 1895 — the first quadruple-century in first-class cricket and the highest individual innings until Bill Ponsford's 429 in 1923. The score remained the English first-class record until Brian Lara's 501 not out in 1994. MacLaren went on to captain Lancashire and England across the 1900s.

#lord-hawke#yorkshire#professional-cricket

Lord Hawke's Winter Pay — How Yorkshire's Captain Reformed the Lot of the Professional Cricketer, 1890s

Yorkshire

1894-12-01

Lord Hawke captained Yorkshire from 1883 to 1910, taking the side from a hard-drinking ungovernable team to four County Championships in the 1890s. His most enduring change had nothing to do with on-field tactics: he introduced winter pay for professionals (who until then earned only during the summer), made benefit money trustee-managed for long-term security, and dismissed players he felt failed in their conduct. Bobby Peel's 1897 sacking was the most famous case.