Captain are the pillars of a team in any format of the game. We have seen some of great captains throughout the last 50 years. They have played an important role whenever there team wins any major trophy. Since 1970's many captains led theirs team to win the ICC trophies in different formats of the game. Meanwhile, we have also seen some aggressive captains on the field like Saurav Ganguly, Virat Kohli, Babar and Pollard. While we have seen some cool and calm captains like MS Dhoni, Williamson, and Morgan.
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In this article, we will take a look at the cricket team captains of each test playing nations. Meanwhile, this list includes the teams like England, Australia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, West Indies, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and New Zealand. However, the following list, we will see each teams captains in every format of the game.
Cricket team Captains of every team (Test playing nations only) :
TEAM | TEST | ODI | T20I |
---|---|---|---|
Australia | Pat Cummins | Aaron Finch | Aaron Finch |
England | Joe Root | Eoin Morgan | Eoin Morgan |
India | Virat Kohli | Rohit Sharma | Rohit Sharma |
New Zealand | Kane Williamson | Kane Williamson | Kane Williamson |
Bangladesh | Mominul Haque | Tamim Iqbal | Mahmudullah |
Pakistan | Babar Azam | Babar Azam | Babar Azam |
South Africa | Dean Elger | Temba Bavuma | Temba Bavuma |
Sri Lanka | Dimuth Karunaratne | Dasun Shanaka | Dashun Shanaka |
West Indies | Kraigg Braithwaite | Kieron Pollard | Kieron Pollard |
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However, in these teams only New Zealand and Pakistan has the same captains in three different formats of the game. On the other hand, only Bangladesh has three different skippers in three formats.
N.B: The stats are accurate a of 16/12/2021.