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Captaincy Records and Statistics - Test Cricket
Most Consecutive Matches as Captain
Player
Country
Career
Matches
From
To
A R Border
Australia
1978-1994
93
07/12/1984
25/03/1994
R T Ponting
Australia
1995-2012
73
03/11/2004
26/12/2010
S P Fleming
New Zealand
1994-2008
65
01/07/1999
15/12/2006
A N Cook
England
2006-2018
57
15/11/2012
16/12/2016
M A Atherton
England
1989-2001
52
05/08/1993
21/03/1998
M A Taylor
Australia
1989-1999
50
28/09/1994
02/01/1999
G C Smith
South Africa
2002-2014
40
16/12/2009
01/03/2014
G S A Sobers
West Indies
1954-1974
39
03/03/1965
20/04/1972
J E Root*
England
2012-
39
06/07/2017
24/01/2020
S T Jayasuriya
Sri Lanka
1991-2007
38
09/09/1999
08/11/2002
G C Smith
South Africa
2002-2014
37
14/10/2005
24/03/2006
M Azharuddin
India
1984-2000
37
02/02/1990
04/07/1996
Misbah-ul-Haq
Pakistan
2001-2017
35
30/06/2012
17/11/2016
P B H May
England
1951-1961
35
09/06/1955
02/07/1959
J R Reid
New Zealand
1949-1965
34
18/02/1956
08/07/1965
S C Ganguly
India
1996-2008
33
10/11/2000
08/10/2003
D L Vettori
New Zealand
1997-2014
32
08/11/2007
15/01/2011
A D Mathews*
Sri Lanka
2009-
31
08/03/2013
13/08/2016
B B McCullum
New Zealand
2004-2016
31
02/01/2013
20/02/2016
S P D Smith*
Australia
2010-
31
05/11/2015
22/03/2018
D J G Sammy
West Indies
2007-2013
30
15/11/2010
19/12/2013
I M Chappell
Australia
1964-1980
30
12/02/1971
28/08/1975
S R Waugh
Australia
1985-2004
30
23/08/2001
02/01/2004
A J Strauss
England
2004-2012
29
27/05/2010
16/08/2012
C H Lloyd
West Indies
1966-1984
29
22/11/1974
17/03/1978
G C Smith
South Africa
2002-2014
29
15/12/2006
06/03/2009
A Ranatunga
Sri Lanka
1982-2000
28
17/08/1992
26/12/1995
D P M D Jayawardene
Sri Lanka
1997-2014
28
28/02/2006
01/03/2009
M S Dhoni
India
2005-2014
27
24/01/2010
13/01/2012
Mushfiqur Rahim*
Bangladesh
2005-
27
21/10/2011
12/01/2017
W J Cronje
South Africa
1992-2000
26
25/11/1994
30/01/1998
W J Cronje
South Africa
1992-2000
26
26/02/1998
02/03/2000
No. of Records = 32
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