Cricket - Test Captains

These are the captains of teams for countries afforded Test status - South Africa, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, West Indies, Australia, England/Wales. They are numbered in order of their appointment as captain. The years they captained or the year they first captained the team and the number of Tests with the win, loss, draw numbers are indicated.
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India 11. Pankaj Roy. One Test against England in 1959 that was lost
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India 12. Gulabrai Sipahimalani Ramchand captained Indian team that secured first ever series win against Australian team in India during 1959-60. Out of the all 5 tests captained by him, 1 won, 2 lost and 2 drawn.
India 13. Nari Contractor. 1960-2. 12-2-2-8. He was left-handed opening batsman whose international career was ended abruptly by a serious head injury in 1962 when hit by a ball playing against West Indies.
India 14. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi ( Nawab of Pataudi or Tiger Pataudi) captained the Indian Cricket team for 40 tests during the period 1961-62 to 1974-75 played against West Indies, England, Australia and New Zealand. 40-9-19-12. He has been described as "India’s greatest cricket captain"
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Inda 15. Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde, known as Chandu Borde is a great cricketer bowler/ batsman who captained the team in 1967-68 against Australia in Australia for 1 test which was lost. All rounder
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India 16. Ajit Wadekar 1970-4. 16-4-4-8- Aggressive batsman
India 17. Srinivas Venkataraghavan 1974-9. 5-0-2-3. Off-spin bowler - played 56 Tests
India 18, Sunil.Gavaskar 1975-85. 47-9-8-30. Played 125 Tests for 10,122 runs. Avg. 51.2
India 19. Bishan Singh Bedi. 1975-9. 22-6-11-5. Left arm spin bowler
20. Gundappa Viswanath captained two tests during 1979-80 one against Pakistan drawn and one against England was lost.
21 Kapil Dev 1982-7. 34-4-7-23 One of the greatest all rounders of all time.
22 Dilip Vengsarkar 1987-9 10-2-5-3. Played 116 Tests at 42.13
23 Ravi Shastri All rounder who captained one Test for a win and played 80 Tests
24 Krishnamachari Srikkanth captained India's tour to Pakistan in 1989-90 and all 4 tests were drawn.