Best Captains in Cricket History

Описание: Top 10 Best Captains in Cricket History

10. Stephen Fleming

Stephen Fleming the former captain of New Zealand Cricket team was one of the youngest captains in the cricket history.
He is the longest-serving and most successful of all the other New Zealand captains having led the side to 28 victories.
He is much famous for his enthusiastic spirit and periodically changing strategies.

9. Nasser Hussain

Nasser Hussain One of the Top Captain that has never struggled doing captaincy and batting at the same time.
Although he was born in Madras India, he has been the captain of England team for about 4 years.
He always makes changes in the field position randomly and is the most energetic among the other best cricket captains.

8. Hansie Cronje

The only captain who spoke to his players with his eyes rather than his hands and mouth. He set the field with his eye movements.
He was a perfect all-rounder and led SA to 99 victories out of the 138 matches he captained them in ODIs.
He was voted the 11th greatest South African in 2004 despite having been banned for life from cricket for match-fixing scandal.

7. Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly is one of the most promising Indian captains.
He was the captain of Test team of India from 2000-2005 and for ODI from 1999-2005.
Under his 6 years of captaincy, Team India has won 21 Test matches out of 49 and 76 ODI’s out of 146.
Popularly known as Dada, he was very aggressive.

6. Imran Khan

Imran Khan is the only captain who led Pakistan to win first and only world cup victory in 1992 at the age of 39.
He had been the captain of Pakistan cricket team between 1982-1992 the longest time span among all the other team captains.
He was Pakistan's most successful cricket captain.

5. Graeme Smith

Graeme Smith led his team to an equal position where the top teams like Australia and India stands.
Who can imagine that a team can chase a target of 434 runs in 50 overs and win that game, but he made it as a captain.
Smith holds the world record of highest number of wins in test matches as a captain with 50 wins.

4. Arjun Ranatunga

At the time when Arjun Ranatunga is nominated as the captain, Sri Lankan team was under praised and low rating cricket nations.
But he led his team in the World Cup of 1996 and Won that billion dollar cup.
And this defines what an empowered leader Arjun is. He was one of the remarkable personalities in Cricket.

3. Steve Waugh

Steve Waugh has a record of winning 16 consecutive test Victories. Under his captaincy, Australia has also won the World Cup of 1999.
He served as an Australian Captain both in ODI’s and Test from 1999 to 2004.
He was a perfect all-rounder and a great right hand Batsman. He is often known as “Mr cool” by his team mates.

2. Ricky Ponting

Ponting is the man behind building Australian team as one of the successful teams the World has ever seen.
Ricky has also lead Australian team to won 2 World Cup titles consecutively.
Ponting holds the world record for being part of a team in most ODI wins- he finished on the winning side in 262 ODIs.

1.M S Dhoni

Under Dhoni’s captaincy Team India has won almost all the top-level awards including an ODI World Cup, Champions Trophy and a T20 World Cup.
He is surely the Best Captain India has ever got. Dhoni is much famous for his strategies in the field including some bizarre steps he takes.
He is the First Captain who implemented to bowl a spinner the very first over in an innings. He is often known for his powerful Sixes.