List of New Zealand national cricket captains explained

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 national 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 South Africa in February 2024.

New Zealand Test match captains^[1] ! Number! Portrait! Name! Year(s)! Opposition! Location! Played! Won! Lost! Drawn!Win %

1		Tom Lowry	1929–30		New Zealand	4	0	1	3
			1931		England	3	0	1	2
			Total			7	0	2	5	0.00
2		Curly Page	1931–32		New Zealand	2	0	2	0
			1932–33		New Zealand	2	0	0	2
			1937		England	3	0	1	2
			Total			7	0	3	4	0.00
3		Walter Hadlee	1945–46		New Zealand	1	0	1	0
			1946–47		New Zealand	1	0	0	1
			1949		England	4	0	0	4
			1950–51		New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			Total			8	0	2	6	0.00
4		Bert Sutcliffe	1951–52		New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			1953–54†		South Africa	2	0	2	0
			Total			4	0	3	1	0.00
5		Merv Wallace	1952–53		New Zealand	2	0	1	1	0.00
6		Geoff Rabone	1953–54		South Africa	3	0	2	1
			1954–55		New Zealand	2	0	2	0
			Total			5	0	4	1	0.00
7		Harry Cave	1955–56		Pakistan	3	0	2	1
			1955–56		India	5	0	2	3
			1955–56†		New Zealand	1	0	1	0
			Total			9	0	5	4	0.00
8		John R. Reid	1955–56		New Zealand	3	1	2	0
			1958		England	5	0	4	1
			1958–59		New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			1961–62		South Africa	5	2	2	1
			1962–63		New Zealand	3	0	3	0
			1963–64		New Zealand	3	0	0	3
			1964–65		New Zealand	3	0	0	3
			1964–65		India	4	0	1	3
			1964–65		Pakistan	3	0	2	1
			1965		England	3	0	3	0
			Total			34	3	18	13	8.82
9		Murray Chapple	1965/6†		New Zealand	1	0	0	1	0.00
10		Barry Sinclair	1965–66		New Zealand	2	0	0	2
			1967–68†		New Zealand	1	0	1	0
			Total			3	0	1	2	0.00
11		Graham Dowling	1967–68		New Zealand	3	1	2	0
			1968–69		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
			1969		England	3	0	2	1
			1969–70		India	3	1	1	1
			1969–70		Pakistan	3	1	0	2
			1970–71		New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			1971–72†		West Indies	2	0	0	2
			Total			19	4	7	8	21.05
12		Bevan Congdon	1971–72		West Indies	3	0	0	3
			1972–73		New Zealand	3	0	1	2
			1973		England	3	0	2	1
			1973–74		Australia	3	0	2	1
			1973–74		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
			1974–75		New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			Total			17	1	7	9	5.88
13		Glenn Turner	1975–76		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
			1976–77		Pakistan	2	0	2	0
			1976–77		India	3	0	2	1
			1976–77		New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			Total			10	1	6	3	10.00
14			1976/7†		Pakistan	1	0	0	1	0.00
15		Mark Burgess	1977–78		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
			1978		England	3	0	3	0
			1978–79		New Zealand	3	0	1	2
			1980–81†		Australia	1	0	1	0
			Total			10	1	6	3	10.00
16		Geoff Howarth	1979–80		New Zealand	3	1	0	2
			1980–81		Australia	2	0	1	1
			1980–81		New Zealand	3	1	0	2
			1981–82		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
			1982–83		New Zealand	2	2	0	0
			1983		England	4	1	3	0
			1983–84		New Zealand	3	1	0	2
			1983–84		Sri Lanka	3	2	0	1
			1984–85		New Zealand	3	2	0	1
			1984–85		West Indies	4	0	2	2
			Total			30	11	7	12	36.67
17		Jeremy Coney	1984–85		Pakistan	3	0	2	1
			1985–86		Australia	3	2	1	0
			1985–86		New Zealand	3	1	0	2
			1986		England	3	1	0	2
			1986–87		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
			Total			15	5	4	6	33.33
18		Jeff Crowe1	1986–87		Sri Lanka	1	0	0	1
			1987–88		Australia	3	0	1	2
			1987–88		New Zealand	2	0	0	2
			Total			6	0	1	5	0.00
19		John Wright	1987–88†		New Zealand	1	0	0	1
			1988–89		India	3	1	2	0
			1988–89		New Zealand	2	0	0	2
			1989–90		Australia	1	0	0	1
			1989–90		New Zealand	3	1	0	2
			1989–90		New Zealand	1	1	0	0
			1990		England	3	0	1	2
			Total			14	3	3	8	21.42
20		Martin Crowe1	1990–91		Pakistan	3	0	3	0
			1990–91		New Zealand	2	0	0	2
			1991–92		New Zealand	3	0	2	1
			1992–93		Zimbabwe	2	1	0	1
			1992–93		Sri Lanka	2	0	1	1
			1992–93		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
			1993–94		Australia	1	0	0	1
			Total			16	2	7	7	12.50
21			1990–91†		New Zealand	1	0	0	1	0.00
22		Ken Rutherford	1992–93		New Zealand	1	0	1	0
			1993–94†		Australia	2	0	2	0
			1993–94		New Zealand	3	1	2	0
			1993–94		New Zealand	1	0	0	1
			1994		England	3	0	1	2
			1994–95		South Africa	3	1	2	0
			1994–95		New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			1994–95		New Zealand	1	0	1	0
			1994–95		New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			Total			18	2	11	5	11.11
23		Lee Germon	1995–96		India	3	0	1	2
			1995–96		New Zealand	1	0	1	0
			1995–96		New Zealand	2	0	0	2
			1995–96		West Indies	2	0	1	1
			1996–97		Pakistan	2	1	1	0
			1996–97		New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			Total			12	1	5	6	8.33
24		Stephen Fleming	1996–97†		New Zealand	1	0	1	0
			1996–97		New Zealand	2	2	0	0
			1997–98		Zimbabwe	2	0	0	2
			1997–98		Australia	3	0	2	1
			1997–98		New Zealand	2	2	0	0
			1998		Sri Lanka	3	1	2	0
			1998–99		New Zealand	2	1	0	1
			1999		England	4	2	1	1
			1999–2000		India	3	0	1	2
			1999–2000		New Zealand	2	2	0	0
			1999–2000		New Zealand	3	0	3	0
			2000–01		Zimbabwe	2	2	0	0
			2000–01		South Africa	3	0	2	1
			2000–01		New Zealand	1	0	0	1
			2000–01		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
			2001–02		Australia	3	0	0	3
			2001–02		New Zealand	2	2	0	0
			2001–02		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
			2002		Pakistan	1	0	1	0
			2002		West Indies	2	1	0	1
			2002–03		New Zealand	2	2	0	0
			2003		Sri Lanka	2	0	0	2
			2003–04		India	2	0	0	2
			2003–04		New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			2003–04		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
			2004		England	3	0	3	0
			2004–05		Bangladesh	2	2	0	0
			2004–05		Australia	2	0	2	0
			2004–05		New Zealand	3	0	2	1
			2004–05		New Zealand	2	1	0	1
			2005		Zimbabwe	2	2	0	0
			2005–06		New Zealand	3	2	0	1
			2005–06		South Africa	3	0	2	1
			2006–07		New Zealand	2	1	1	0
			Total			80	28	27	25	35.00
25			1998–99		New Zealand	3	0	1	2	0.00
26		Daniel Vettori			South Africa	2	0	2	0
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
					New Zealand	3	1	2	0
					England	3	0	2	1
					Bangladesh	2	1	0	1
					Australia	2	0	2	0
					New Zealand	2	0	0	2
					New Zealand	3	0	1	2
					Sri Lanka	2	0	2	0
					New Zealand	3	1	1	1
					New Zealand	1	1	0	0
					New Zealand	2	0	2	0
					India	3	0	1	2
					New Zealand	2	0	1	1
			Total			32	6	16	10	18.75
27		Ross Taylor			Zimbabwe	1	1	0	0
					Australia	2	1	1	0
					New Zealand	1	1	0	0
					New Zealand	3	0	1	2
					West Indies	2	0	2	0
					India	2	0	2	0
					Sri Lanka	2	1	1	0
			2016–17†		India	1	0	1	0
			Total			14	4	8	2	28.57
28		Brendon McCullum			South Africa	2	0	2	0
					New Zealand	3	0	0	3
					England	2	0	2	0
					Bangladesh	2	0	0	2
					New Zealand	3	2	0	1
					New Zealand	2	1	0	1
					West Indies	3	2	1	0
					United Arab Emirates	3	1	1	1
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
					England	2	1	1	0
					Australia	3	0	2	1
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
					New Zealand	2	0	2	0
			Total			31	11	11	9	35.48
29		Kane Williamson			Zimbabwe	2	2	0	0
					South Africa	2	0	1	1
					India	2	0	2	0
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
					New Zealand	3	0	1	2
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
					New Zealand	2	1	0	1
					United Arab Emirates	3	2	1	0
					New Zealand	2	1	0	1
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
					Sri Lanka	2	1	1	0
					New Zealand	2	1	0	1
					Australia	2	0	2	0
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
					New Zealand	1	1	0	0
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
					England	1	0	0	1
					England	1	1	0	0
					India	1	–	–	1
					England	3	–	3	-
			Total			41	22	11	8	57.89
30		Tom Latham			Australia	1	0	1	0
					New Zealand	1	1	0	0
					England	1	1	0	0
					India	1	0	1	0
					New Zealand	2	1	1	0
					New Zealand	1	1	1	0
					India	2	2	0	0
			Total			11	6	6	0	50
31		Tim Southee			Pakistan	2	0	0	2
					New Zealand	2	1	1	0
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
					Bangladesh	2	1	1	0
					New Zealand	2	2	0	0
			2024		New Zealand	2	0	2	0
			2024		Sri Lanka	2	0	2	0
			Total			14	6	6	2	42.85
Grand Total[2]						468	115	183	170	24.57

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 national cricket team for at least one One Day International.

New Zealand ODI captains^[3] ! Number! Name! Year(s)! Played! Won! Lost!Tied! No result!Win %

1		1973–1975	7	1	3	0	3	25.00
2		1975–1976	7	5	2	0	0	71.42
3		1978–1980	8	2	6	0	0	25.00
4		1980–1985	60	31	26	0	3	54.39
5		1983–1990	31	16	15	0	0	51.61
6		1984–1987	25	8	16	0	1	33.33
7		1986–1988	16	4	12	0	0	25.00
8		1990–1993	44	21	22	0	1	48.84
9		1992	2	0	2	0	0	0.00
10		1993–1994	37	10	24	1	2	28.57
11		1994	3	1	2	0	0	33.33
12		1995–1997	36	15	19	2	0	41.67
13		1997–2007	218	98	106	1	13	47.80
14		1999	7	3	3	0	1	50.00
15		2001–2002	8	2	6	0	0	25.00
16		2002–2003	7	1	6	0	0	14.29
17		2004–2011	82	41	33	1	7	54.67
18		2009–2016	62	36	22	1	3	61.02
19		2010–2012	20	6	12	0	2	33.33
20		2012–present	91	46	40	1	4	50.55
21		2013–2014	4	1	2	0	1	33.33
22		2017–2023	44	28	15	0	1	63.63
23		2018	1	0	1	0	0	0.00
24	Mitchell Santner	2022	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
Grand total			801	369	382	6	43

Twenty20 International captains

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

New Zealand Twenty20 International captains^[4] ! No.! Name! Year(s)! Played! Won! Tied! Lost! NR

1		2005–2006	5	2	1	2	0
2		2007–2010	28	13	2	13	0
3		2008–2015	28	13	0	14	1
4		2010–2012	13	6	2	4	1
5		2012–present	56	28	1	26	1
6		2013	2	1	0	1	0
7		2017–2021	20	12	2	6	0
8		2021	3	1	0	1	1
9		2021	5	2	0	3	0
Grand total			160	78	8	70	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		1934/5		New Zealand	1	0	1	0
2	Ina Lamason	1947/8		New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		1948/9		New Zealand	1	0	1	0
		Total			2	0	2	0
3	Rona McKenzie	1954		England	3	0	1	2
		1956/7		Australia	1	0	1	0
		1957/8		New Zealand	2	0	0	2
		1960/1		New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		Total			7	0	2	5
4	Trish McKelvey	1966		England	3	0	0	3
		1968/9		New Zealand	3	0	2	1
		1971/2		Australia	1	1	0	0
		1971/2		South Africa	3	1	0	2
		1974/5		New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1976/7		New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1978/9		Australia	3	0	1	2
		Total			15	2	3	10
5	Debbie Hockley	1984		England	3	0	0	3
		1984/5		India	3	0	0	3
		Total			6	0	0	6
6		1989/90		New Zealand	3	0	1	2
7		1991/2		New Zealand	3	0	1	2
8	Sarah Illingworth	1994/5		New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1994/5		New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1995/6		Australia	1	0	0	1
		1996		England	3	0	0	3
		Total			6	0	0	6
9	Maia Lewis	2003/4		India	1	0	0	1
		2004		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		1973	5	3	0	2	0
2		1977/8-1981/2	15	7	1	7	0
3		1984-1998/9	27	12	0	15	0
4		1984/5	1	1	0	0	0
5		1985/6-1989/90	15	8	0	6	1
6		1991/2	3	1	0	2	0
7		1992/3-1996	29	18	0	10	1
8		1996/7-2004/5	45	19	1	24	1
9		1999/2000-2002/3	41	28	0	12	1
10		2000/1	2	2	0	0	0
11		2004–2009	45	24	0	21	0
12		2008–2011	22	3	0	18	1
13		2010	3	3	0	0	0
14		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		2004	1	1	0	0	0
2		2006–2009	8	3	1	4	0
3		2009–2011	29	19	0	10	0
4		2011–present	67	42	1	24	0
5		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		1985/6		Australia	3	0	0	3
2		1986/7		New Zealand	3	0	2	1
3	Lee Germon	1987/8		New Zealand	1	1	0	0
		1988/9		Australia	3	0	2	1
		Total			4	1	2	1
4		1989		England	3	1	0	2
5	Llorne Howell	1990/1		New Zealand	3	2	0	1
		1991/2		India	2	0	1	1
		Total			5	2	1	2
6		1992/3		New Zealand	2	1	0	1
7		1993/4		Pakistan	3	0	0	3
8		1994/5		New Zealand	3	0	0	3
9	Craig McMillan	1995/6		Australia	3	1	2	0
		1996		England	3	1	0	2
		Total			6	2	2	2
10		1998/9		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
11		2000/1		New Zealand	3	2	0	1
12		2007		New Zealand	3	1	1	1
13		2008		England	1	0	1	0
14		2008		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		1985/6	3	0	0	3	0
2		1986/7	3	0	0	3	0
3		1987/8-1988/9	10	2	0	8	0
4		1988/9-1989	2	0	0	2	0
5	David Mills	1989	2	0	0	2	0
6		1990/1-1991/2	5	3	0	2	0
7		1992/3	3	1	0	2	0
8		1993/4	3	1	0	2	0
9		1994/5	3	2	0	1	0
10		1995/6-1996	5	3	0	2	0
11		1997/8-1998/9	10	6	0	4	0
12		1999/2000	5	1	0	4	0
13		2000/1	3	1	0	1	1
14		2001/2	6	3	0	2	1
15		2003/4	6	2	0	4	0
16		2006	6	3	0	3	0
17		2007	3	1	0	2	0
18		2008	10	4	1	3	2
19		2010	6	4	0	2	0
20		2012	11	4	0	7	0
21		2013	3	1	0	2	0
22		2013	4	1	0	3	0
23		2014	6	3	0	3	0
24		2016	9	4	0	5	0
25		2016	1	0	0	1	0
26		2018	7	3	0	4	0
Grand total			136	53	1	78	2

See also

• New Zealand national cricket team

References

• Web site: New Zealand Captains' Playing Record in Test Matches . Cricket Archive . 24 April 2024.
• Web site: New Zealand Captains' Playing Record in Youth Test Matches . Cricket Archive . 2008-02-08 . 16 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131016032414/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/NewZealand/UTests/Captains/Playing_Record_Captain_Overall.html . dead .
• Web site: New Zealand Captains' Playing Record in Youth ODI Matches . Cricket Archive . 2008-02-08 . 5 November 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131105203922/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/NewZealand/UOdis/Captains/Playing_Record_Captain_Overall.html . dead .
• Web site: New Zealand Captains' Playing Record in Women's Test Matches . Cricket Archive . 24 April 2024.
• Web site: New Zealand Captains' Playing Record in Women's ODI Matches . Cricket Archive . 24 April 2024.
• Web site: New Zealand Captains' Playing Record in Women's International Twenty20 Matches . Cricket Archive . 2008-02-08 . 28 December 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081228021313/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/NewZealand/WT20Int/Captains/Playing_Record_Captain_Overall.html . dead .

Notes and References

1. Web site: New Zealand Cricket Team Records & Stats ESPNcricinfo.com. 2021-11-29. ESPNcricinfo.
2. Web site: Records Test matches Team records Results summary ESPNcricinfo.com. 2021-11-29. ESPNcricinfo.
3. Web site: New Zealand ODI Captains . ESPNcricinfo. 1 September 2021.
4. Web site: Cricinfo Statsguru – Twenty20 Internationals – Team records . ESPNcricinfo. 2021-11-21.