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This is a list of England cricket captains, comprising all the men, women and youths who have captained an England cricket team at official international level. The international match categories are Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I).
This category is for the cricketers who have captained England in at least one match. For a list of captains together with period of tenure and the number of games won, lost and drawn as captain see: English national cricket captains. NB: for county club captains, see Category:Captains of English first-class cricket teams
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the governing body of English cricket and the England cricket team. The Board has been operating since 1 January 1997 and represents England on the International Cricket Council. The ECB is also responsible for the generation of income from the sale of tickets, sponsorship and broadcasting rights ...
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Although Test match cricket had not been invented in his heyday of the late 1860s and 1870s, he continued playing into his fifties, finally retiring from Test cricket at the turn of the century. Shrewsbury (35) and Stoddart (56) go down amongst the great captains of the period, as well as two of the many cricketing suicides. Johnny Briggs (47 ...
He is widely considered as one of the greatest ever captains of England. [2] Under his captaincy, England won the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, the first time they won the tournament, along with reaching the finals of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20, where the team lost to the West Indies by 4 wickets.
However, in 1931, he was asked to captain England in a Test against New Zealand. Although there were some initial misgivings about his captaincy, Jardine led England in the next three cricket seasons and on two overseas tours, one of which was the Australian tour of 1932–33. Of his 15 Tests as captain, he won nine, drew five and lost only one.
Paul Collingwood played in 197 ODI matches, the second most of any England player, after Eoin Morgan (225). Eoin Morgan scored 6,957 runs, the most of any England player, and is the only English player to reach 200 ODI caps. James Anderson took 269 wickets, the most of any England player.