List of New Zealand national cricket captains

This is a complete list of all of New Zealand's national cricket captains at official international level. As such it includes details of all the men who have captained at least one Test match or One Day International, all boys who have captained in at least one Youth Test or Youth ODI, and all women who have captained at least one women's Test match or women's one-day international. New Zealand became a full member of the Imperial Cricket Conference (now the International Cricket Council) on 31 May 1926 at the same time as India were made up to full membership, and their first-class cricket matches against other full member nations since that date have been Tests.

Men's cricket

Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand cricket team for at least one Test match. 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 for a minor proportion in a series.

The table of results is complete up to the second Test against Pakistan cricket team in January 2021.

New Zealand Test match captains[1]
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	Tom Lowry	1929–30	England	New Zealand	4	0	1	3
		1931	England	England	3	0	1	2
		Total			7	0	2	5
2	Curly Page	1931–32	South Africa	New Zealand	2	0	2	0
		1932–33	England	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
		1937	England	England	3	0	1	2
		Total			7	0	3	4
3	Walter Hadlee	1945–46	Australia	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		1946–47	England	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1949	England	England	4	0	0	4
		1950–51	England	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		Total			8	0	2	6
4	Bert Sutcliffe	1951–52	West Indies	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		1953–54†	South Africa	South Africa	2	0	2	0
		Total			4	0	3	1
5	Merv Wallace	1952–53	South Africa	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
6	Geoff Rabone	1953–54	South Africa	South Africa	3	0	2	1
		1954–55	England	New Zealand	2	0	2	0
		Total			5	0	4	1
7	Harry Cave	1955–56	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	0	2	1
		1955–56	India	India	5	0	2	3
		1955–56†	West Indies	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		Total			9	0	5	4
8	John Reid	1955–56	West Indies	New Zealand	3	1	2	0
		1958	England	England	5	0	4	1
		1958–59	England	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		1961–62	South Africa	South Africa	5	2	2	1
		1962–63	England	New Zealand	3	0	3	0
		1963–64	South Africa	New Zealand	3	0	0	3
		1964–65	Pakistan	New Zealand	3	0	0	3
		1964–65	India	India	4	0	1	3
		1964–65	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	0	2	1
		1965	England	England	3	0	3	0
		Total			34	3	18	13
9	Murray Chapple	1965/6†	England	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
10	Barry Sinclair	1965–66	England	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
		1967–68†	India	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		Total			3	0	1	2
11	Graham Dowling	1967–68	India	New Zealand	3	1	2	0
		1968–69	West Indies	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		1969	England	England	3	0	2	1
		1969–70	India	India	3	1	1	1
		1969–70	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	1	0	2
		1970–71	England	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		1971–72†	West Indies	West Indies	2	0	0	2
		Total			19	4	7	8
12	Bevan Congdon	1971–72	West Indies	West Indies	3	0	0	3
		1972–73	Pakistan	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
		1973	England	England	3	0	2	1
		1973–74	Australia	Australia	3	0	2	1
		1973–74	Australia	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		1974–75	England	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		Total			17	1	7	9
13	Glenn Turner	1975–76	India	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		1976–77	Pakistan	Pakistan	2	0	2	0
		1976–77	India	India	3	0	2	1
		1976–77	Australia	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		Total			10	1	6	3
14	John Parker	1976/7†	Pakistan	Pakistan	1	0	0	1
15	Mark Burgess	1977–78	England	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		1978	England	England	3	0	3	0
		1978–79	Pakistan	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
		1980–81†	Australia	Australia	1	0	1	0
		Total			10	1	6	3
16	Geoff Howarth	1979–80	West Indies	New Zealand	3	1	0	2
		1980–81	Australia	Australia	2	0	1	1
		1980–81	India	New Zealand	3	1	0	2
		1981–82	Australia	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		1982–83	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		1983	England	England	4	1	3	0
		1983–84	England	New Zealand	3	1	0	2
		1983–84	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	3	2	0	1
		1984–85	Pakistan	New Zealand	3	2	0	1
		1984–85	West Indies	West Indies	4	0	2	2
		Total			30	11	7	12
17	Jeremy Coney	1984–85	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	0	2	1
		1985–86	Australia	Australia	3	2	1	0
		1985–86	Australia	New Zealand	3	1	0	2
		1986	England	England	3	1	0	2
		1986–87	West Indies	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		Total			15	5	4	6
18	Jeff Crowe^1	1986–87	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	1	0	0	1
		1987–88	Australia	Australia	3	0	1	2
		1987–88	England	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
		Total			6	0	1	5
19	John Wright	1987–88†	England	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1988–89	India	India	3	1	2	0
		1988–89	Pakistan	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
		1989–90	Australia	Australia	1	0	0	1
		1989–90	India	New Zealand	3	1	0	2
		1989–90	Australia	New Zealand	1	1	0	0
		1990	England	England	3	0	1	2
		Total			14	3	3	8
20	Martin Crowe^1	1990–91	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	0	3	0
		1990–91	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
		1991–92	England	New Zealand	3	0	2	1
		1992–93	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	1	0	1
		1992–93	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	2	0	1	1
		1992–93	Australia	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		1993–94	Australia	Australia	1	0	0	1
		Total			16	2	7	7
21	Ian Smith	1990–91†	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
22	Ken Rutherford	1992–93	Pakistan	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		1993–94†	Australia	Australia	2	0	2	0
		1993–94	Pakistan	New Zealand	3	1	2	0
		1993–94	India	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1994	England	England	3	0	1	2
		1994–95	South Africa	South Africa	3	1	2	0
		1994–95	West Indies	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		1994–95	South Africa	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		1994–95	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		Total			18	2	11	5
23	Lee Germon	1995–96	India	India	3	0	1	2
		1995–96	Pakistan	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		1995–96	Zimbabwe	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
		1995–96	West Indies	West Indies	2	0	1	1
		1996–97	Pakistan	Pakistan	2	1	1	0
		1996–97	England	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		Total			12	1	5	6
24	Stephen Fleming	1996–97†	England	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		1996–97	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		1997–98	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	0	0	2
		1997–98	Australia	Australia	3	0	2	1
		1997–98	Zimbabwe	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		1998	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	3	1	2	0
		1998–99	India	New Zealand	2	1	0	1
		1999	England	England	4	2	1	1
		1999–2000	India	India	3	0	1	2
		1999–2000	West Indies	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		1999–2000	Australia	New Zealand	3	0	3	0
		2000–01	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	2	0	0
		2000–01	South Africa	South Africa	3	0	2	1
		2000–01	Zimbabwe	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		2000–01	Pakistan	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		2001–02	Australia	Australia	3	0	0	3
		2001–02	Bangladesh	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		2001–02	England	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		2002	Pakistan	Pakistan	1	0	1	0
		2002	West Indies	West Indies	2	1	0	1
		2002–03	India	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		2003	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	2	0	0	2
		2003–04	India	India	2	0	0	2
		2003–04	Pakistan	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		2003–04	South Africa	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		2004	England	England	3	0	3	0
		2004–05	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	2	2	0	0
		2004–05	Australia	Australia	2	0	2	0
		2004–05	Australia	New Zealand	3	0	2	1
		2004–05	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	2	1	0	1
		2005	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	2	0	0
		2005–06	West Indies	New Zealand	3	2	0	1
		2005–06	South Africa	South Africa	3	0	2	1
		2006–07	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	2	1	1	0
		Total			80	28	27	25
25	Dion Nash	1998–99	South Africa	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
26	Daniel Vettori	2007–08	South Africa	South Africa	2	0	2	0
		2007–08	Bangladesh	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		2007–08	England	New Zealand	3	1	2	0
		2008	England	England	3	0	2	1
		2008–09	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	2	1	0	1
		2008–09	Australia	Australia	2	0	2	0
		2008–09	West Indies	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
		2008–09	India	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
		2009	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	2	0	2	0
		2009–10	Pakistan	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
		2009–10	Bangladesh	New Zealand	1	1	0	0
		2009–10	Australia	New Zealand	2	0	2	0
		2010–11	India	India	3	0	1	2
		2010–11	Pakistan	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		Total			32	6	16	10
27	Ross Taylor	2011–12	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	1	1	0	0
		2011–12	Australia	Australia	2	1	1	0
		2011–12	Zimbabwe	New Zealand	1	1	0	0
		2011–12	South Africa	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
		2012	West Indies	West Indies	2	0	2	0
		2012	India	India	2	0	2	0
		2012–13	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	2	1	1	0
		2016–17†	India	India	1	0	1	0
		Total			14	4	8	2
28	Brendon McCullum	2012–13	South Africa	South Africa	2	0	2	0
		2012–13	England	New Zealand	3	0	0	3
		2013	England	England	2	0	2	0
		2013–14	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	2	0	0	2
		2013–14	West Indies	New Zealand	3	2	0	1
		2013–14	India	New Zealand	2	1	0	1
		2014	West Indies	West Indies	3	2	1	0
		2014–15	Pakistan	United Arab Emirates	3	1	1	1
		2014–15	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		2015	England	England	2	1	1	0
		2015–16	Australia	Australia	3	0	2	1
		2015–16	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		2015–16	Australia	New Zealand	2	0	2	0
		Total			31	11	11	9
29	Kane Williamson	2016	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	2	0	0
		2016	South Africa	South Africa	2	0	1	1
		2016–17	India	India	2	0	2	0
		2016–17	Pakistan	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		2016–17	Bangladesh	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		2016–17	South Africa	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
		2017–18	West Indies	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		2017–18	England	New Zealand	2	1	0	1
		2018–19	Pakistan	United Arab Emirates	3	2	1	0
		2018–19	Sri Lanka	New Zealand	2	1	0	1
		2018–19	Bangladesh	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		2019	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	2	1	1	0
		2019–20	England	New Zealand	2	1	0	1
		2019–20	Australia	Australia	2	0	2	0
		2019–20	India	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		2020–21	West Indies	New Zealand	1	1	0	0
		2020-21	Pakistan	New Zealand	2	2	0	0
		Total			35	21	8	6
30	Tom Latham	2019–20	Australia	Australia	1	0	1	0
		2020–21	West Indies	New Zealand	1	1	0	0
		Total			2	1	1	0
Grand Total[2]					446	105	175	166

Note:

• ¹ Jeff Crowe and Martin Crowe are brothers.

Men's One-Day International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand cricket team for at least one One Day International.

New Zealand ODI captains
Number	Name	Year	Played	Won	Lost	Tied	No result
1	Bevan Congdon	1973–1975	7	1	3	0	3
2	Glenn Turner	1975–1976	7	5	2	0	0
3	Mark Burgess	1978–1980	8	2	6	0	0
4	Geoff Howarth	1980–1985	60	31	26	0	3
5	John Wright	1983–1990	31	16	15	0	0
6	Jeremy Coney	1984–1987	25	8	16	0	1
7	Jeff Crowe	1986–1988	16	4	12	0	0
8	Martin Crowe	1990–1993	44	21	22	0	1
9	Andrew Jones	1992	2	0	2	0	0
10	Ken Rutherford	1993–1994	37	10	24	1	2
11	Gavin Larsen	1994	3	1	2	0	0
12	Lee Germon	1995–1997	36	15	19	2	0
13	Stephen Fleming	1997–2007	218	98	106	1	13
14	Dion Nash	1999	7	3	3	0	1
15	Craig McMillan	2001–2002	8	2	6	0	0
16	Chris Cairns	2002–2003	7	1	6	0	0
17	Daniel Vettori	2004–2011	82	41	33	1	7
18	Brendon McCullum	2009–2016	62	36	22	1	3
19	Ross Taylor	2010–2012	20	6	12	0	2
20	Kane Williamson	2012–present	50	26	22	0	2
21	Kyle Mills	2013–2014	4	1	2	0	1
22	Tom Latham	2017–2018	6	5	1	0	0
23	Tim Southee	2018	1	0	1	0	0
Grand total			740	333	362	6	39

Twenty20 International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand cricket team for at least one Twenty20 International.

New Zealand Twenty20 International captains
No.	Name	Span	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	NR
1	Stephen Fleming[3]	2005–2006	5	2	1	2	0
2	Daniel Vettori[3]	2007–2010	28	13	2	13	0
3	Brendon McCullum[3]	2008–2015	28	13	0	14	1
4	Ross Taylor	2010–2012	13	6	2	4	1
5	Kane Williamson	2012–present	42	19	1	21	1
6	Kyle Mills	2013	2	1	0	1	0
7	Tim Southee	2017-2020	15	9	2	4	0
8	Mitchell Santner	2020	2	1	0	0	1
Grand total			135	64	8	59	4

Women's cricket

Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand women's cricket team for at least one women's Test match.

New Zealand women's Test match captains
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	Ruth Symons	1934/5	England	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
2	Ina Lamason	1947/8	Australia	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		1948/9	England	New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		Total			2	0	2	0
3	Rona McKenzie	1954	England	England	3	0	1	2
		1956/7	Australia	Australia	1	0	1	0
		1957/8	England	New Zealand	2	0	0	2
		1960/1	Australia	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		Total			7	0	2	5
4	Trish McKelvey	1966	England	England	3	0	0	3
		1968/9	England	New Zealand	3	0	2	1
		1971/2	Australia	Australia	1	1	0	0
		1971/2	South Africa	South Africa	3	1	0	2
		1974/5	Australia	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1976/7	India	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1978/9	Australia	Australia	3	0	1	2
		Total			15	2	3	10
5	Debbie Hockley	1984	England	England	3	0	0	3
		1984/5	India	India	3	0	0	3
		Total			6	0	0	6
6	Lesley Murdoch	1989/90	Australia	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
7	Karen Plummer	1991/2	England	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
8	Sarah Illingworth	1994/5	India	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1994/5	Australia	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1995/6	Australia	Australia	1	0	0	1
		1996	England	England	3	0	0	3
		Total			6	0	0	6
9	Maia Lewis	2003/4	India	India	1	0	0	1
		2004	England	England	1	0	0	1
		Total			2	0	0	2
Grand total					45	2	10	33

Women's One-Day International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand women's cricket team for at least one women's one-day international. New Zealand's greatest ODI success was under Emily Drumm when they won the 2000/1 World Cup.

New Zealand women's ODI captains
Number	Name	Year	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	Bev Brentnall	1973	5	3	0	2	0
2	Trish McKelvey	1977/8-1981/2	15	7	1	7	0
3	Debbie Hockley	1984-1998/9	27	12	0	15	0
4	Ingrid Jagersma	1984/5	1	1	0	0	0
5	Lesley Murdoch	1985/6-1989/90	15	8	0	6	1
6	Karen Plummer	1991/2	3	1	0	2	0
7	Sarah Illingworth	1992/3-1996	29	18	0	10	1
8	Maia Lewis	1996/7-2004/5	45	19	1	24	1
9	Emily Drumm	1999/2000-2002/3	41	28	0	12	1
10	Catherine Campbell	2000/1	2	2	0	0	0
11	Haidee Tiffen	2004–2009	45	24	0	21	0
12	Aimee Watkins	2008–2011	22	3	0	18	1
13	Amy Satterthwaite	2010	3	3	0	0	0
14	Suzie Bates	2011–present	76	40	0	35	1
Grand total			329	169	2	152	6

Women's Twenty20 International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand women's cricket team for at least one Twenty20 International match.

New Zealand women's Twenty20 International captains
Number	Name	Year	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	Maia Lewis	2004	1	1	0	0	0
2	Haidee Tiffen	2006–2009	8	3	1	4	0
3	Aimee Watkins	2009–2011	29	19	0	10	0
4	Suzie Bates	2011–present	67	42	1	24	0
5	Sophie Devine	2014	4	2	0	1	1
Grand total			106	64	2	39	1

Youth cricket

Test match captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand Under-19 cricket team for at least one under-19 Test match. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player was captain for a minor proportion in a series.

New Zealand Under-19 Test match captains
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	David Hartshorn	1985/6	Australia	Australia	3	0	0	3
2	John Murtagh	1986/7	Australia	New Zealand	3	0	2	1
3	Lee Germon	1987/8	India	New Zealand	1	1	0	0
		1988/9	Australia	Australia	3	0	2	1
		Total			4	1	2	1
4	Chris Cairns	1989	England	England	3	1	0	2
5	Llorne Howell	1990/1	England	New Zealand	3	2	0	1
		1991/2	India	India	2	0	1	1
		Total			5	2	1	2
6	Stephen Fleming	1992/3	Australia	New Zealand	2	1	0	1
7	Richard Jones	1993/4	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	0	0	3
8	Stephen Lynch	1994/5	Pakistan	New Zealand	3	0	0	3
9	Craig McMillan	1995/6	Australia	Australia	3	1	2	0
		1996	England	England	3	1	0	2
		Total			6	2	2	2
10	Jarrod Englefield	1998/9	England	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
11	Brendon McCullum	2000/1	South Africa	New Zealand	3	2	0	1
12	Andrew de Boorder	2007	India	New Zealand	3	1	1	1
13	George Worker	2008	England	England	1	0	1	0
14	Kane Williamson	2008	England	England	1	0	0	1
Grand total					43	11	10	22

Youth One-Day International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand Under-19 cricket team for at least one Under-19 One Day International.

New Zealand Under-19 ODI captains
Number	Name	Year	Played	Won	Tied	Lost	No result
1	David Hartshorn	1985/6	3	0	0	3	0
2	John Murtagh	1986/7	3	0	0	3	0
3	Lee Germon	1987/8-1988/9	10	2	0	8	0
4	Chris Cairns	1988/9-1989	2	0	0	2	0
5	David Mills	1989	2	0	0	2	0
6	Llorne Howell	1990/1-1991/2	5	3	0	2	0
7	Stephen Fleming	1992/3	3	1	0	2	0
8	Richard Jones	1993/4	3	1	0	2	0
9	Stephen Lynch	1994/5	3	2	0	1	0
10	Craig McMillan	1995/6-1996	5	3	0	2	0
11	Jarrod Englefield	1997/8-1998/9	10	6	0	4	0
12	James Franklin	1999/2000	5	1	0	4	0
13	Brendon McCullum	2000/1	3	1	0	1	1
14	Ross Taylor	2001/2	6	3	0	2	1
15	Daniel Flynn	2003/4	6	2	0	4	0
16	Marc Ellison	2006	6	3	0	3	0
17	Andrew de Boorder	2007	3	1	0	2	0
18	Kane Williamson	2008	10	4	1	3	2
19	Craig Cachopa	2010	6	4	0	2	0
20	Will Young	2012	11	4	0	7	0
21	Tim Seifert	2013	3	1	0	2	0
22	Leo Carter	2013	4	1	0	3	0
23	Robert O'Donnell	2014	6	3	0	3	0
24	Josh Finnie	2016	9	4	0	5	0
25	Rachin Ravindra	2016	1	0	0	1	0
26	Kaylum Boshier	2018	7	3	0	4	0
Grand total			136	53	1	78	2

See also

• New Zealand national cricket team

Notes

1. "New Zealand Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
2. "Records | Test matches | Team records | Results summary | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
3. "Cricinfo Statsguru – Twenty20 Internationals – Team records". Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 February 2008.

References

• "New Zealand Captains' Playing Record in Test Matches". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 8 February 2008.
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