The dagger classification follows that adopted by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
#Indian cricket captain 2016 series
Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player deputised for the appointed captain or was appointed by the home authority for a minor proportion in a series. India has produced some dedicated cricket captains from different parts of the country.
It has been updated to the end of the Test series against West Indies in May 2009. Indian Cricket Team Captain List Captain of Indian Cricket Team. This is a list of cricketers who have captained the England cricket team for at least one Test match. Later that summer they regained The Ashes from Australia, having not held them since 1989. England were the only team undefeated in 2004, and were, as at June 2005, ranked as the second-best Test nation in the world. From the late 1990s under Nasser Hussain's captaincy, England started to enjoy a revival, which continued under Michael Vaughan. Unsurprisingly, England lost the five-Test series 4–0. Finally, Graham Gooch became England's fourth captain of the summer.
Chris Cowdrey came into the team as captain for the fourth Test and was then injured. He was initially replaced by John Emburey, who was so poor as a captain that he was replaced after two Tests. The desperation was most clear in the "summer of four captains" in 1988, during the West Indies tour of England, when the captaincy started with Mike Gatting, who was sacked after the first Test as a result of a dalliance with a barmaid. The amateur/professional distinction was abolished in 1962, and a new breed of captain in Brian Close and then Ray Illingworth was born.įrom the mid-1980s until the late 1990s, English cricket was in decline, with the England team suffering many heavy defeats.
#Indian cricket captain 2016 professional
They brought with them the tradition of having amateur, rather than professional, captains, and after Shrewsbury there wasn't another professional captain until Len Hutton around sixty years later. Home captains were selected by the home ground authority, who often went for their local favourites.įor around sixty years, from 1902/3, the Marylebone Cricket Club took over the organisation of all overseas tours, with the games played being technically by the "MCC" rather than "England".
However, some amateur tours went abroad under Lord Harris and Lord Hawke. In the 19th century, the captains for overseas tours were chosen by the promoters, with James Lillywhite, Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury being the main professional promoters.
England played in the first Test match in 1877 and have played more Test matches, and had more captains, than any other team. ICC Test team of the year 2016: Alastair Cook (captain), David Warner, Kane Williamson, Joe Root, Adam Voges, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rangana Herath, Mitchell Starc, Dale Steyn, Steve Smith.This is a list of all English national cricket captains, comprising all of the men, boys and women who have captained an English national cricket team at official international level. ICC ODI team of the year 2016: Virat Kohli (captain), David Warner, Quinton de Kock (wk), Rohit Sharma, AB de Villiers, Jos Buttler, Mitchell Marsh, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Starc, Kagiso Rabada, Sunil Narine, Imran Tahir. The other selected cricketers in ICC Test team of the Year 2016 are New Zealand’s Kane Williamson, England’s Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wicket-keeper) and Ben Stokes, Australia’s Steven Smith and Adam Voges, South African speedster Dale Steyn, New Zealand’s Kane Williamson and Sri Lankan left-arm spinner Rangana Herath.īesides, South Africa’s Marais Erasmus has been honoured with the David Shepherd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year, while Pakistan captain, Misbah-ul-Haq won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award. Warner and Starc are two cricketers who have found out a place in both the teams. Star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is the lone Indian in the Test side, which surprisingly will be led by Alastair Cook, who faces an uncertain future as England’s captain. Kohli, who is the vice-captain of India’s ODI and T20 teams, has been named as leader of the 12-member side which features four South Africans and three Australian cricketers besides one each from England and West Indies.Įxplosive batsman AB de Villiers, wicket-keeper Quinton de Kock, pacer Kagiso Rabada and leg-spinner Imran Tahir are the South African cricketers, while David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Mitchell Starc represent Australia in the ICC ODI team of the year.Įnglishman Jos Buttler and wily West Indian spinner Sunil Narine are the other two players in the side.īut despite becoming man-of-the-series with 655 runs while leading India to the 4-0 drubbing of England recently, Kohli surprisingly missed a berth in the ICC Test team of the year 2016. He might be on an 18-match unbeaten streak as India’s Test captain but Virat Kohli was today ignored from the ICC Test team of the year even though he was named skipper of the ODI all-star XI which also featured Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja.
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