Top 10 Most Successful Cricket Captains of All Time
Top 10 Most Successful Cricket Captains of All Time [Most Wins]
A good leader is not the one who gives
orders and expects that everyone will follow them; a good leader must be
smart and strong enough to help the other players. Captains can make or
break a good game. On another hand, the captain might also face all
kinds of negativity if the whole team loses a match. It is his
responsibility to take all the reactions, may it be positive or
negative. Here are Successful Cricket Captains.
10. Arjuna Ranatunga
In the 10 place on our list of the most
successful cricket captains with most wins in TEST, ODI AND T20I is
former Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga. He played for the national
team from 1982 to 2000, and led the team in 249 matches between 1988 and
1999. During this time, Ranatunga helped in winning 101 matches,
including the 1996 World Cup. He hit a win percentage of 40.56. He was
nicknamed Captain Cool for his temperament, and is credited for bringing
the spotlight on Sri Lanka.
9. Mahela Jayawardene
Another incredibly successful captain of
Sri Lanka is Mahela, who led the team between 2004 and 2013 during his
international career between 1997 and 2015. During his career, he
achieved a win percentage of 54.3, having led his team to gain victory
101 times in 186 matches; this win percentage puts him ahead of
Ranatunga. Jayawardane helped Sri Lanka do amazingly well Cricket World
Cup 2017, Cricket World Cup 2011, ICC World Twenty20 2009 and ICC World
Twenty20 2012 as the captain.
8. Mohammad Azharuddin
A cricketer riddled in many
controversies, both on and off the field, former Indian cricketer
Mohammad Azharuddin’s success cannot be taken away from him, despite his
lifelong BCCI ban. He is one of the most successful cricket captains,
based on number of victories, having won 104 out of 221 matches during
his captaincy from 1990 to 1999. He represented India from 1984 to 2000.
The victories helped him achieve a win percentage of 47.05 as the
captain of the Indian team.
7. Steve Waugh
Steve Waugh played for Australia from
1985 to 2004, is an ICC Cricket Hall of Fame player. He played as the
captain for his team between 1997 and 2004. During this time, Sri Lanka
played 163 matches under his captaincy, and won in 108 of them,
including World Cup 1999. Waugh thus hit an incredible win rate of 66.25
percent, making him, quite rightfully, one of the best captains in the
world, including Test, One Day International and Twenty-20 International
cricket.
6. Hansie Cronje
Hansie Cronje might have been banned for
life from the world of cricket because of match-fixing scandals, but he
was posthumously voted as 11th greatest South African, two years after
he died in a plane crash in 2002. He started playing in 1992, becoming
the captain of the South African team in 1997, and ending his tenure as
the captain with his cricketing career in 2000. During this time, he
achieved a win percentage of 65.96, winning 126 out of 191 matches.
5. Stephen Fleming
Former cricketer Stephen Fleming is a
celebrated player, and a noteworthy captain of New Zealand national team
whom he represented from 1994 to 2009. He was the winning captain of
ICC KnockOut Trophy 2000, the only ICC trophy of the country till date.
He was also the first captain for his country in the world’s historic
first Twenty20 International. Between 1997 and 2007, he led his team to
win 128 out of 303 matches, with a win rate of 42.24.
4. Allan Border
Allan Border started playing for
Australia in 1978, and received captaincy of the team in 1984, a role he
played till the end of his career in 1994, when he retired as his
country’s most capped player, and the highest run-scorer in both ODI and
Test. During his tenure as the captain, this sports legend helped his
team amass 139 victories in 271 matches, reaching a win percentage of
51.29. He has appeared in the second highest number of test matches as
the captain.
3. Graeme Smith
Graeme Smith is a former cricketer of
South Africa. He represented the team in all formats of cricket, between
2002 and 2014, and received the captaincy a year into his career,
performing the responsibility till the end of it. Under his leadership,
South Africa played 286 matches, and won in 163 of them, and he thus had
a win percentage of 56.99, making him one of the noted captains of his
country, as well as one of the most successful captains in the world,
based on number of wins.
2. MS Dhoni
MS Dhoni joined the Indian team in 2004,
and although he has resigned from Test cricket recently, he is still
going strong in the rest of the formats. He captained the team in all
formats from 2007 to 2016, and led the team in a composed way. Leading
the team in 331 games, he tops the list of captains with most matches.
He helped India win 178 of them, including World Twenty20 2007, Asia Cup
2010, World Cup 2011 and Champions Trophy 2013, with a win rate of
53.77.
1. Ricky Ponting
Leading the list of the most successful
captains with the highest number of wins is former cricketer Ricky
Ponting, who represented Australia from 1995 to 2012. He served as the
captain from 2002 to 2012. During his tenure as the captain, he led
Australia to a massive 220 victories, including two World Cup victories
in 2003 and 2007. He hit an incredible win rate of 67.90. The period of
his captaincy is regarded as the golden era for the Australia national
cricket team.
Special Mentions:
It is to be remembered that we have
named the most successful captains based on the number of wins they have
led their teams to. The number of matches they played in obviously has a
huge part to play in it. There was a time when Test matches were not
that frequent. The ODIs came much later. And T20I were completely out of
the picture. The captains of that era built great teams, and led
confidently. Captains like Richie Benaud (Australia, 1958-1964), Gary
Sobers (West Indies, 1965-1972), etc. had a class of their own. Mansoor
Ali Khan Pataudi (India, 1962-1971/1974-1975) may have captained and won
in a small number of matches, but he is still regarded as the greatest
captain of the country, a title some fans want to give to Sourav Ganguly
(India, 1999-2005) who built a powerful, confident, go-getter team.
Yesteryear captains like Clive Lloyd (West Indies, 1974-1985), Mike
Brearley (England, 1977-1981) played matches that no one can forget.
A captain has to keep his team playing
and giving their best shot – till the last ball of the last over. When
there’s a lost, it’s a captain’s fault. When there’s a win, it’s the
team’s credit. So, a captain needs to be a true team player and a
mastermind. From the powerhouse captain Sourav Ganguly, to the composed
leader MS Dhoni, every captain has a different way of leading his team.
And the true success of a captain lies not in the number of wins his
team achieves during his tenure, but in how much the audience and his
team members remember him.
Top 10 Most Successful Cricket Captains of All Time [Overall Performance]
The following list has been made,
keeping in mind the number of matches played and they winning streaks.If
you have another opinion about some players, please tell us in the
comment section down below and we will certainly look into it. As for
this one, keep reading and enjoy.
10. MA Atherton (ENG)
Number 10 of Top 10 Successful Cricket
Captains, is occupied by Mike. Mike Atherton was an opener in the era of
classic English tradition. The defense was his strong point, but when
his bad back wasn’t playing up, he managed to hook freely and timed the
ball sweetly through point. In opponents’ eyes, he was England’s most
sought man for the seven years until his retirement at the end of the
2001 Ashes. Thrust into the captaincy at the early age of 25, he proved
more durable than successful, but after ultimately resigning in 1998, he
slipped rather comfortably into the role of elder statesman.
Michael Atherton Captaincy Record in Test Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | %W | %L |
| 1993-2001 | 54 | 13 | 21 | 0 | 20 | 0.61 | 24.07 | 38.88% |
Michael Atherton Captaincy Record in ODI Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | % |
| 1994 – 1997 | 43 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 48.80% |
9. A Ranatunga (SL)
speaking of Top 10 Successful Cricket
Captains, Ranatunga can’t be missed. A specialist
left-handed batsman and a part-time medium pace bowler, Ranatunga’s
glittering career with the Sri Lankan national team started in 1982 when
Sri Lanka were relative newcomers to international cricket. He was a
key player in the team. Under Ranatunga’s captaincy, Sri Lanka had
started to improve rapidly. Their growing success rate culminated with a
blistering performance and triumphed in the 1996 Cricket World Cup.
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | %W | %L |
| 1989-1999 | 56 | 12 | 19 | 0 | 25 | 0.63 | 21.42 | 33.92% |
Arjuna Ranatunga Captaincy Record in ODI Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | % |
| 1988- 1999 | 193 | 89 | 95 | 1 | 8 | 48.37% |
8. SR Waugh (AUS)
Stephen Rodger Waugh was presumed to be
in the early stages of his career as only a “moderately talented”
player, at one point losing his Test place to his brother Mark, he
became one of the leading batsmen of his time. He is one of only 12
players to have run over 10,000 Test runs, led Australia to fifteen of
their record sixteen consecutive Test victories, and to victory in
the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
Steve Waugh Captaincy Record in Test Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | %W | %L |
| 1999- 2004 | 57 | 41 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 4.55 | 71.92 | 15.78% |
Steve Waugh Captaincy Record in ODI Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | % |
| 1997-2002 | 106 | 67 | 35 | 3 | 1 | 65.23 |
7. AN Cook (ENG)
A gem for the cricket world, Cook is at
number 7 of Top 10 Successful Cricket Captains. He is widely assumed as
one of the greatest and most successful batsmen ever to have played for
England, and one of the most skilled batsmen of the modern era. Cook
played for Essex’s Academy and made his debut for the first XI back in
2003. He played in a variety of England’s youth teams from 2000 until
his inclusion to the Test side in 2006.
Alastair Cook Captaincy Record in Test Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | %W | %L |
| 2010- 2016 | 59 | 24 | 22 | 0 | 13 | 1.09 | 40.67 | 37.28% |
Alastair Cook Captaincy Record in ODI Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | % |
| 2010-2014 | 69 | 36 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 54.47 |
6. MS Dhoni (India)
Know as one of all time finest finishers in cricket.
Dhoni holds many captaincy records such as most wins by an Indian
captain in Tests and ODIs, and most back-to-back victories by an Indian
captain in ODIs. He took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in
2007 and eventually led the team to its first-ever bilateral ODI series
wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Indian Skipper and Wicket keeper deserve to be among Top 10 Successful Cricket Captains.
MS Dhoni Captaincy Record in Test Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | %W | %L |
| 2008- 2014 | 60 | 27 | 18 | 0 | 15 | 1.50 | 45.00 | 30.00% |
MS Dhoni Captaincy Record in ODI Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | % |
| 2007-2016 | 199 | 110 | 74 | 4 | 11 | 59.57 |
5. CH Lloyd (WI)
CH Lloyd is at number 5 of Top 10
Successful Cricket Captains. He captained the West Indies between the
years 1974 and 1985 and oversaw their surreal rise to become the
dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relieved in the
latter half of the 1990s.
Clive Lloyd Captaincy Record in Test Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | %W | %L |
| 1974 – 1985 | 74 | 36 | 12 | 0 | 26 | 3.00 | 48.64 | 16.21% |
Clive Lloyd Captaincy Record in ODI Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | % |
| 1975-1985 | 84 | 64 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 77.71 |
4. RT Ponting (AUS)
He is considered by many to be one of
the Top 10 Successful Cricket Captains of the modern era, alongside the
likes of Sachin Tendulkar of India and Brian Lara of the West Indies. On
1 December 2006, he reached the highest career rating achieved by a Test batsman in the last 50 years.
Ricky Ponting Captaincy Record in Test Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | %W | %L |
| 2001 – 2010 | 77 | 48 | 16 | 0 | 13 | 3.00 | 62.33 | 20.77% |
Ricky Ponting Captaincy Record in ODI Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | % |
| 2002-2012 | 230 | 165 | 51 | 2 | 12 | 76.14 |
3. SP Fleming (NZ)
He was especially noted for his
captaincy, having been appreciated by the likes of Shane Warne as the
“best captain in world cricket” and most recently, Graeme Swann. He said
that Fleming is one of the two true leaders that he’s ever seen,
alongside Andrew Strauss and is among Top 10 Successful Cricket
Captains.
Stephen Fleming Captaincy Record in Test Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | %W | %L |
| 1997 – 2006 | 80 | 28 | 27 | 0 | 25 | 1.03 | 35.00 | 33.75% |
Stephen Fleming Captaincy Record in ODI Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | % |
| 1997-2007 | 218 | 98 | 106 | 1 | 13 | 48.04 |
2. AR Border (AUS)
He played 156 Test matches in his
career, a marvelous record until it was passed by fellow
Australian Steve Waugh. He has the record for most consecutive test
starts with 153. Border still retains the world record for the number of
consecutive Test appearances of 153. He is second on the list of Top 10
Successful Cricket Captains.
Allan Border Captaincy Record in Test Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | %W | %L |
| 1984 – 1994 | 93 | 32 | 22 | 1 | 38 | 1.45 | 34.40 | 23.65% |
Allan Border Captaincy Record in ODI Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | % |
| 1985-1994 | 178 | 107 | 67 | 1 | 3 | 61.42 |
1. GC Smith (ICC/SA)
A tall, left-handed opening batsman, on
the famous 2003 South African tour of England made double centuries in
consecutive Test matches: 277 at Edgbaston, and 259 at Lord’s. The 259
is the highest score made at Lord’s by a foreign player. On 24 October
2013, that batsman Smith became the second South African and 12th
overall to complete 9,000 runs in test cricket in his 112th test match.
He is a true skipper and is among Top 10 Successful Cricket Captains, to
say the least.
Graeme Smith Captaincy Record in Test Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | %W | %L |
| 2003 – 2014 | 109 | 53 | 29 | 0 | 27 | 1.82 | 48.62 | 26.60% |
Graeme Smith Captaincy Record in ODI Matches
| Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | % |
| 2003-2011 | 150 | 92 | 51 | 1 | 6 | 64.23 |
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