#youngest captain

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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.

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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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