Top 10 Most Successful Captains In ODIs

Top 10 Most Successful Skippers In ODI Cricket;  A captain in a cricket team plays an important role in the success of his team. A captain can turn the tables of the match with his quick thinking and ability to understand the opposition plans and schemes. Over the years, we came across many incredible skippers leading the team with their astute captaincy.

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Being a team captain is quite a big honour. As the captain of a team, you should understand that all the other players in the team trust you and respect your decisions and believe that you can lead them in the right direction. Quite a few legendary players mastered those things perfectly to lead their respective countries in the game of cricket. Meanwhile, we figured out the Top 10 Most Successful Skippers In ODI Cricket.

Top 10 Most Successful Skippers In ODI Cricket:

10. Imran Khan – 75 Wins

Imran Khan was tenacious, gritty, and hard working. He never took no for an answer. Imran always pushed his fellow teammates to their breaking point and made them better cricketers. He never listened to his naysayers. When he lost, he went straight back to the drawing board and practice in the nets. Now he is considered arguably the GOAT in Cricket.

In 139 matches, he bagged 75 wins while 59 games were lost. One game was tied while 4 games have resulted in ”No-result”.

9. Sourav Ganguly – 76 Wins

Indian cricket has been demarcated into two phases, before Ganguly and after Ganguly. Sourav has started his career with 131 runs against England in his test debut and 113 runs against Srilanka in his ODI debut. Since then, he never looked back and went on to become the skipper of the team.

The way he leads team India during the 2000s is something very appreciable and was quite difficult to do. India had just come out of the shadows of match-fixing and from there to lift up the team and to take it to the heights it reached was just phenomenal.

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He won 76 games off 147 matches. 5 games have resulted in No-result while the other 66 games were lost.

8. Arjun Ranatunga – 89 Wins

Another Asian cricketer makes into the chart. Arjun Ranatunga is best known for the World Cup 1996, which Sri Lanka won under his captaincy. He is considered as one of the best captains across the world and he is at the 04th position in the list of most matches as captain in ODIS and 10th position in test matches.

Arjun was a left-handed batsman and a right-handed medium bowler. He won 89 games off 193 matches. 8 games have resulted in No-result while the other 95 games were lost.

7. Mohammad Azharuddin – 90 Wins

One of India’s greatest cricketers and most likely one of the best players to lead the Indian side, arguably one of the best skippers of the Indian National Cricket Team ever had. His ODI career was pretty long, having played 334 matches, mostly batting in the middle order, he led India to many victories.

The second phase of Azhar’s career came when he replaced Srikkanth as the captain of the Indian squad for the tour to New Zealand in February 1990. He went on to lead India in ODIs and Tests for the major part of the 90s. He won 90 matches off 171 games.

6. Graeme Smith – 92 Wins

Smith has been the best skipper ever produced by South Africa. He represented the team in all formats of cricket, between 2002 and 2014, and received the captaincy a year into his career, performing the responsibility till the end of it. Under his leadership, South Africa played 286 matches and won in 163 of them.

With his national squad, he had a win percentage of 56.99, making him one of the noted captains of his country. He went on to lead South Africa in 150 ODI games and won 92 matches.

5. Stephen Fleming – 98 Wins

Arguably, the best skipper produced by New Zealand to the cricketing world. Stephen Fleming led New Zealand in 218 ODIs out of which he emerged victorious in 98. In his tenure as the captain, he led the black caps three World Cups while managing to progress to the two semi-finals before losing to Asian opposition, i.e. Pakistan in 1999 and Sri Lanka in 2007.

Fleming was the winning captain of ICC KnockOut Trophy 2000, the only ICC trophy of the country till date. He was also the first captain for his country in the world’s historic first Twenty20 International.

4. Hansie Cronje – 99 Wins

The former leader of the Proteas, Hansie Cronje, might have been banned for life from the world of cricket because of match-fixing scandals, but he was posthumously voted as 11th greatest South African, two years after he died in a plane crash in 2002.

He started playing in 1992, becoming the captain of the South African team in 1997 and ending his tenure as the captain with his cricketing career in 2000. During this time, he helped Proteas to win 99 matches out of 138 games.

3. Allan Border – 107 Wins

Allan Border is widely regarded as one of the Greatest Cricket Captains Baggy Greens legend Allan Border started playing for Australia in 1978 and received captaincy of the team in 1984. The role he played till the end of his career in 1994 when he retired as his country’s most capped player.

He also retired as the highest run-scorer in both ODI and Test at that time. During his tenure as the captain, the legendary cricketer helped Australia to win 107 matches off 178 games. Arguably, one of the all-time best cricketers in world cricket.

2. Mahendra Singh Dhoni – 110 Wins

Dhoni is one of the coolest captains the world has ever seen. Its no wonder that under his captaincy India has won every major tournament possible. Only a few people would come close to his calmness while leading the side under pressure. His achievements include World Twenty20 2007, Asia Cup 2010, World Cup 2011 and Champions Trophy 2013. He led the Indian team with a brilliant winning-rate.

As per the statistics, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the best captain of the Indian Cricket. He not only won all the major trophies but also made the team be one of the best attacks in world cricket. Under his captaincy, India won 110 matches out of 200 ODI games.

1. Ricky Ponting – 165 Wins

Leading the list of the most successful cricket captains with the highest number of wins is former cricketer Ricky Ponting, who represented Australia from 1995 to 2012. One of the greatest cricketers of all time, Ponting, served as the captain from 2002 to 2012. During his tenure as the captain, he led Australia to a massive 165 victories.

After making his debut in 1995 Ricky Ponting took over Australia’s ODI captaincy in 2002. During his record 34 matches winning streak, he has taken the Australian side to three successful World Cup titles. He captained Australia in 9 ICC tournaments which include three World Cups, two World T20s and 4 Champions Trophies. One of the best skippers and the best batsmen, cricket has ever witnessed.