List of Canada national cricket captains
This is a list of all cricketers who have captained Canada in an official international match. This includes the ICC Trophy, Under-19's games and One Day Internationals. The table is correct as of the 2007 Cricket World Cup. The current captain of Canadian national team is Saad Bin Zafar, he was appointed as the captain in October 2022.
One Day Internationals
[edit]Canada played their first ODI on June 9, 1979.[1]
| Canadian ODI Captains | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | Year | Played | Won | Tied | Lost | NR | |
| 1 | Bryan Mauricette | 1979 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2 | Joseph Harris | 2003 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 3 | John Davison | 2006–2007 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 0 | |
| 4 | George Codrington | 2006 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 5 | Ashish Bagai | 2007–2014 | 27 | 8 | 0 | 18 | 1 | |
| 6 | Sunil Dhaniram | 2007–2008 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 7 | Zubin Surkari | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 8 | Qaiser Ali | 2008 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 9 | Umar Bhatti | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11 | Jimmy Hansra | 2011–2014 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| 12 | Saad Bin Zafar | 2023–2024 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 13 | Nicholas Kirton | 2024–present | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| Overall | 91 | 24 | 0 | 65 | 2 | |||
Twenty20 Internationals
[edit]Canada played their first Twenty20 Internationals on August 2, 2008.[2]
| Canadian T20I Captains | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | Year | Played | Won | Tied | Lost | NR | |
| 1 | Sanjayan Thuraisingam | 2008 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2 | Sunil Dhaniram | 2008 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | |
| 3 | Ashish Bagai | 2008–2013 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 4 | Rizwan Cheema | 2010–2013 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| 5 | Navneet Dhaliwal | 2019 - 2022 | 23 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| 6 | Saad Bin Zafar | 2022 - present | 19 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
| Overall | 61 | 31 | 2 | 27 | 1 | |||
ICC Trophy
[edit]Canada debuted in the ICC Trophy in the 1979 tournament
| Canadian ICC Trophy Captains | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Name | Year | Played | Won | Tied | Lost | No Result | |
| 1 | Garnet Brisbane | 1979 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2 | Bryan Mauricette | 1979 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Richard Stevens | 1982 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 4 | Clement Neblett | 1986 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 5 | Farooq Kirmani | 1990 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 6 | Danny Singh | 1993–1994 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |
| 7 | Ingleton Liburd | 1993–1997 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 8 | Joseph Harris | 2001 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 9 | John Davison | 2005 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Overall | 54 | 32 | 0 | 20 | 2 | |||
Youth One-Day International captains
[edit]This is a list of Canadian cricketers who have captained their country in an Under-19's ODI.
| Canadian Under 19's Captains | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Name | Year | Played | Won | Tied | Lost | No Result | |
| 1 | Ashish Bagai | 2002 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2 | Nathan Richards | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 3 | Umar Bhatti | 2004 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| 4 | Rustam Bhatti | 2010 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |
| 5 | Nitish Kumar | 2014 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| Overall | 23 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 1 | |||
References
[edit]- ^ "List of Captains for Canada in ODIs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ^ "List of Captains for Canada in T20Is". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
External links
[edit]- Cricinfo
- Canada's ICC Trophy captains at Cricket Archive Archived 2012-10-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Canada's Under-19's captains at Cricket Archive Archived 2013-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
