

Very obviously the target that he has set his eyes on will be the Cricket 1 Test rankingĪnd held onto it with an iron grip while also reaching the joint top position Under Kohli, India have ascended to the No. Indian Men’s cricket team is on verge of winning theīorder-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia this year with India going with a 2-1 lead into Got 2818 runs and finally in 2018 he amassed a total of 2735 runs.ĮSPN CricInfo tweeted the following picture which shows the In the year 2016 he scored 2595 runs, in the year 2017 he Highest run-getter across all formats in international cricket in a calendar Not just for India, but also in the world Kohli has been the In-form and spearheading the team to wins. Virat Kohli has been nothing less than a run machine this year. On the other hand, Men’s cricket team limited over Captain Indian to sign with Surrey Stars in ECB’s Kia Super League. To script India’s highest-ever T20 chase. The deal came about on the back of an impressive showingĭuring India’s tour of Australia in January 2016, where she made a 31-ball 46 She’s a path-breaker too, having become the first IndiaĬricketer – male or female – to sign a Big Bash League contract with Sydney Kaur is ranked third in the ICC Women’s Player Rankings for T20. Matches in the calendar year, she accumulated 663 runs at a strike-rate ofġ26.2. The tournament, Kaur scored 183 runs at a strike-rate of 160.5, while in the 25 Semi-finals of the ICC Women’s World T20 2018 in the Caribbean in November. Harmanpreet was rewarded for spearheading her side to the Her team mates Smriti Mandhana and Poonam Yadav also Recently declared captain of the International Cricket Council (ICC) women’s Kaur is the captain of women’s ODI and T20 team. Women’s team Captain Harmanpreet Kaur and Men’s team Captain Virat Kohli did commendable jobs both as players and leaders. Ajit Wadekar was India’s first ODI captain.Bhubaneswar: Indian men and women teams’ cricket team captains ended their year in a high. Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag,and Anil Kumble have also led India in a small number of ODIs, with a high win percentage. In between Azharuddin and Ganguly’s captaincy stints, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid captained India with different degrees of success. Ganguly’s shirt-flinging on the Lord’s balcony, in response to Andrew Flintoff taking off his shirt after leading England to a series-leveling win over India, remains an unforgettable moment. Virat Kohli named captain of ICC World T20 2016 Team of The Tournament Virat Kohli and Ashish Nehra are the only Indians to feature in ICC men's team of the tournament.

The highlight of Ganguly’s ODI captaincy was him leading India to victory in the 2002 NatWest Trophy final, with Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif helping India recover from a precarious 145 for five before Kaif finished off the match in the company of Zaheer Khan. Under Azharuddin, India reached the semi-finals of the 1996 Cricket World Cup on home soil, while Ganguly led India to the final of the 2003 World Cup, only to be crushed by 125 runs by Australia in the Johannesburg final. Mohammad Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly were integral to the rise of Indian cricket in the 1990s and early-2000s.

Kapil Dev is the other Indian World Cup-winning captain, leading the country to victory over the fabled West Indies team in the 1983 final at Lord’s. Kohli has scored 15 ODI centuries since the start of 2017 and India won on 11 of those occasions they lost thrice and one match was tied. Much of India’s transformation under Kohli came through his own phenomenal success and numbers as an ODI batsman. It speaks volumes of how Kohli has transformed the team since taking over permanently from Dhoni.
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Under his captaincy, India equalled Australia’s record for the most consecutive bilateral series wins, while the 5-1 ODI series win on South African soil in early-2018 and the 2-1 ODI series win in Australia in early-2019 were India’s first ODI bilateral series wins in the two countries. He recorded 65 wins in 95 matches as captain, giving him a win percentage of 68.42. Kohli’s ODI captaincy record speaks for itself. Dhoni led India in 200 ODIs and had a win percentage of 55 (110 wins) when he passed on the baton to Virat Kohli. Under Dhoni, India also won the Asia Cup twice, in 20. The 2011 World Cup won on home soil is not the only major ODI success under Dhoni’s captaincy, which also yielded the 2013 Champions Trophy that was won on English soil, beating the home team in a pulsating final at Edgbaston in Birmingham. This was followed by India’s semi-final finish at the 2015 World Cup, which was held in Australia and New Zealand. MS Dhoni is India’s most successful ODI captain to date, having relinquished his captaincy in January 2017, less than six years after leading the country to the pinnacle of one-day cricket by winning the 2011 World Cup. Rohit Sharma is India’s current and newly-appointed ODI captain as he takes over on a full-time basis. Check out: Longest-version captains, Teams stats
