![]() India matched the West Indians for accuracy and some excellent tight bowling kept the run-rate below three for the innings. He will have been grateful to Mahipal Lomror, at least, for providing a 43-ball resistance if not the 19 runs that came with it.Ĭuriously the West Indies’ two best bowlers in the match – Joseph and John – finished with near identical figures: the former taking three wickets for 39 with no maidens in his 10 overs and the latter conceding one one run fewer. Sarfaraz Khan, the 18-year-old No5, offered resistance with little support: his 89-ball 51 by far the highest score in the innings and one of only three in double figures. Soon after, Joseph caught Washington Sundar off the bowling of Ryan John for seven and Arman Jaffer drove Shamar Springer straight to Keemo Paul at cover to turn a struggle into a near-crisis at 50 for five. The dagger classification follows that adopted by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.Alzarri Joseph, the right-arm medium-quick, knocked over the top three of Rishabh Pant – brilliantly stumped by Tevin Imlach standing back – Ishan Kishan and Anmolpreet Singh to leave India struggling at 27 for three. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player deputised for the appointed captain or was appointed by the home authority for a minor proportion in a series. It has been updated to the end of the Test series against West Indies in May 2009. This is a list of cricketers who have captained the England cricket team for at least one Test match. Later that summer they regained The Ashes from Australia, having not held them since 1989. England were the only team undefeated in 2004, and were, as at June 2005, ranked as the second-best Test nation in the world. From the late 1990s under Nasser Hussain's captaincy, England started to enjoy a revival, which continued under Michael Vaughan. Unsurprisingly, England lost the five-Test series 4–0. Finally, Graham Gooch became England's fourth captain of the summer. Chris Cowdrey came into the team as captain for the fourth Test and was then injured. He was initially replaced by John Emburey, who was so poor as a captain that he was replaced after two Tests. The desperation was most clear in the "summer of four captains" in 1988, during the West Indies tour of England, when the captaincy started with Mike Gatting, who was sacked after the first Test as a result of a dalliance with a barmaid. The amateur/professional distinction was abolished in 1962, and a new breed of captain in Brian Close and then Ray Illingworth was born.įrom the mid-1980s until the late 1990s, English cricket was in decline, with the England team suffering many heavy defeats. They brought with them the tradition of having amateur, rather than professional, captains, and after Shrewsbury there wasn't another professional captain until Len Hutton around sixty years later. Home captains were selected by the home ground authority, who often went for their local favourites.įor around sixty years, from 1902/3, the Marylebone Cricket Club took over the organisation of all overseas tours, with the games played being technically by the "MCC" rather than "England". However, some amateur tours went abroad under Lord Harris and Lord Hawke. In the 19th century, the captains for overseas tours were chosen by the promoters, with James Lillywhite, Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury being the main professional promoters. England played in the first Test match in 1877 and have played more Test matches, and had more captains, than any other team. ![]() ![]() This is a list of all English national cricket captains, comprising all of the men, boys and women who have captained an English national cricket team at official international level.
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