Australian National Cricket Captains

Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Australian cricket team for at least one Test match. The table of results is complete to the third Test against Pakistan in 2004/2005. The next Text result to be entered is that for the first Test against New Zealand, which is scheduled to start on 10 March 2005. 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 were appointed by the home authority for a minor proportion in a series. The dagger classification follows that adopted by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
colspan=7 style="border-right:0px;"; | Australian Test match captains
Number Name Period of captaincy Played Won Lost Drawn
1 Dave Gregory 1876/7-1878/9 3 2 1 0
2 Billy Murdoch 1880-1884/5
1890
Total		 14
2
16		 5
0
5		 5
2
7		 4
0
4
3 Tom Horan 1884/5 2 0 2 0
4 Hugh Massie 1884/5† 1 1 0 0
5 John Blackham 1884/5†
1891/2-1894/5
Total		 1
7
8		 1
2
3		 0
3
3		 0
2
2
6 Tup Scott 1886 3 0 3 0
7 Percy McDonnell 1886/7-1888 6 1 5 0
8 George Giffen 1894/5 4 2 2 0
9 Harry Trott 1896-1897/8 8 5 3 0
10 Joe Darling 1899-1902/3
1905
Total		 16
5
21		 7
0
7		 2
2
4		 7
3
10
11 Hugh Trumble 1901/02† 2 2 0 0
12 Monty Noble 1903/1904
1907/9-1909
Total		 5
10
15		 2
6
8		 3
2
5		 0
2
2
13 Clem Hill 1910/1-1911/2 10 5 5 0
14 Syd Gregory 1912 6 2 1 3
15 Warwick Armstrong 1920/21-1921 10 8 0 2
16 Herbie Collins 1921/2-1926 11 5 2 4
17 Warren Bardsley 1926† 2 0 0 2
18 Jack Ryder 1928/9 5 1 4 0
19 Bill Woodfull 1930-1934 25 14 7 4
20 Vic Richardson 1935/6 5 4 0 1
21 Don Bradman 1936/7-1938
1946/7-1948
Total		 9
15
24		 4
11
15		 3
0
3		 2
4
6
22 Bill Brown 1945/6 1 1 0 0
23 Lindsay Hassett 1949/50-1953 24 14 4 6
24 Arthur Morris 1951/2†
1954/5†
Total		 1
1
2		 0
0
0		 1
1
2		 0
0
0
25 Ian Johnson 1954/5-1956/7 17 7 5 5
26 Ray Lindwall 1956/7† 1 0 0 1
27 Ian Craig 1957/8 5 3 0 2
28 Richie Benaud 1958/9 28 12 4 121
29 Neil Harvey 1961† 1 1 0 0
30 Bob Simpson 1963/4-1967/8
1977/8
Total		 20
10
39		 8
4
12		 7
5
12		 14
1
15
31 Brian Booth 1965/6† 2 0 1 1
32 Bill Lawry 1967/8-1970/1 25 9 8 8
33 Barry Jarman 1968† 1 0 0 1
34 Ian Chappell 1970/1-1975 30 15 5 10
35 Greg Chappell 1975/6-1977
1979/80-1980/1
1981/2
1982/3
Total		 17
16
9
6
48		 8
6
4
3
21		 5
4
3
1
13		 4
6
2
2
14
36 Graeme Yallop 1978/9 7 1 6 0
37 Kim Hughes 1978/9-1979/80
1981
1982/3
1983/4-1984/5
Total		 7
6
3
12
28		 1
1
0
2
4		 2
3
3
5
13		 4
2
0
5
11
38 Allan Border 1984/5-1993/4 93 32 22 301
39 Mark Taylor 1994/1995-1998/9 50 26 13 11
40 Steve Waugh 1998/9-2003/4 57 41 9 7
41 Adam Gilchrist 2000/1†
2001†
2004†
2004/5
Total		 1
1
1
3
6		 1
0
1
2
4		 0
1
0
0
1		 0
0
0
1
1
42 Ricky Ponting 2003/4-2004
2004/5-present
Total		 4
6
10		 3
5
8		 0
1
1		 1
0
1
Notes:
  • 1 Includes one tie

ODI captains

colspan=8 style="border-right:0px;"; | Australian ODI captains
Number Name Period of captaincy Played Won Lost Tied No result
1 Bill Lawry 1970/1 1 1 0 0 0
2 Ian Chappell 1972-1975 11 6 5 0 0
3 Greg Chappell 1975/6-1982/3 49 21 25 0 3
4 Bob Simpson 1977/8 2 1 1 0 0
5 Graeme Yallop 1978/9 4 2 1 0 1
6 Kim Hughes 1979-1984/5 49 21 23 1 4
7 David Hookes 1983 1 0 1 0 0
8 Allan Border 1984/5-1993/4 178 107 67 1 3
9 Ray Bright 1985/6 1 0 1 0 0
10 Geoff Marsh 1986/7-1990/1 4 3 1 0 0
11 Mark Taylor 1992/3-1997 67 36 30 1 0
12 Ian Healy 1996-1996/7 8 5 3 0 0
13 Steve Waugh 1996/7-2001/2 106 67 35 3 1
14 Shane Warne 1997/8-1998/9 11 10 1 0 0
15 Adam Gilchrist 2000/1-2003/4 7 6 1 0 0
16 Ricky Ponting2 2001/2-present 86 67 14 1 4
Notes:

Rebel captains

Captains of World Series Cricket teams (during the Packer split) and of the Rebel Australian XI to visit apartheid South Africa in 1985/6 are as follows:

South Africa 1985/6

Kim Hughes captained a Rebel Australian XI to South Africa in 1985/6. He captained his Australian XI in 3 Rebel "Tests", losing 1 of them and drawing the other two.

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