List of Pakistan Super League captains

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Pakistan Super League is a professional Twenty20 cricket league, which is operated by the Pakistan Cricket Board. It is contested between six franchises comprising cricketers from Pakistan and around the world (excluding India). A player who leads the cricket team is known as its captain. Each team usually has one nominated captain, although if that player is not participating in a match another player will deputise for them. The captain of a cricket team typically shoulders more responsibility for results than team captains in other sports.[1]

Key

Word Meaning
First Year of the first match played as a captain
Last Year of latest match played as a captain
Matches Number of matches played as a captain
Team(s) Team(s) for which the player has played as captain
Won / Lost Number of games won / lost as a captain
Tied Number of games tied
NR Number of games with no result
   Denotes a player who is full time captain of their respective franchise.

List of PSL captains

This is a list of the players who have acted as captain in at least one match of PSL. Five teams competed in both;

2023, becoming the first ever team in PSL history to successfully defend their PSL title.[3]

Pakistan Super League captains
Player Nationality First Last Matches Team(s) Won Lost Tied NR Win%
Sarfraz Ahmed
 Pakistan 2016 2023 80 Quetta Gladiators 38 41 0 1 48.10
Misbah-ul-Haq  Pakistan 2016 2018 26 Islamabad United 15 10 1 0 59.61
Shahid Afridi  Pakistan 2016 2016 10 Peshawar Zalmi 6 4 0 0 60
Shoaib Malik  Pakistan 2016 2019 30 Karachi Kings
Multan Sultans
Peshawar Zalmi
10 19 0 1 34.48
Azhar Ali  Pakistan 2016 2016 7 Lahore Qalandars 2 5 0 0 28.5
Dwayne Bravo  West Indies 2016 2016 1 Lahore Qalandars 0 1 0 0 0
Shane Watson  Australia 2016 2016 2 Islamabad United 1 1 0 0 50
Ravi Bopara  England 2016 2016 1 Karachi Kings 0 1 0 0 0
Darren Sammy
 West Indies 2017 2020 39 Peshawar Zalmi 22 16 0 1 57.89
Brendon McCullum  New Zealand 2017 2018 18 Lahore Qalandars 5 11 2 0 33.33
Kumar Sangakkara  Sri Lanka 2017 2017 10 Karachi Kings 5 5 0 0 50
Imad Wasim  Pakistan 2018 2023 51 Karachi Kings 23 24 2 2 48.97
Eoin Morgan  England 2018 2018 3 Karachi Kings 1 2 0 0 33.33
JP Duminy  South Africa 2018 2018 2 Islamabad United 2 0 0 0 100
Mohammad Hafeez  Pakistan 2018 2019 4 Peshawar Zalmi
Lahore Qalandars
2 2 0 0 50
Rumman Raees  Pakistan 2018 2018 2 Islamabad United 1 1 0 0 50
Mohammad Amir  Pakistan 2018 2018 1 Karachi Kings 0 1 0 0 0
Mohammad Sami  Pakistan 2019 2019 9 Islamabad United 4 5 0 0 44.44
Shadab Khan  Pakistan 2019 2023 43 Islamabad United 23 20 0 0 53.48
AB de Villiers  South Africa 2019 2019 3 Lahore Qalandars 1 2 0 0 33.33
Fakhar Zaman  Pakistan 2019 2019 5 Lahore Qalandars 1 4 0 0 20.00
Shan Masood  Pakistan 2020 2020 11 Multan Sultans 6 3 1 1 65.00
Sohail Akhtar  Pakistan 2020 2021 23 Lahore Qalandars 12 11 0 0 52.17
Wahab Riaz  Pakistan 2020 2022 28 Peshawar Zalmi 13 14 0 0 48.21
Babar Azam  Pakistan 2020 2023 22 Karachi Kings
Peshawar Zalmi
6 16 0 0 27.27
Mohammad Rizwan  Pakistan 2021 2023 36 Multan Sultans 24 12 0 0 66.66
Usman Khawaja  Australia 2021 2021 1 Islamabad United 1 0 0 0 100
Shaheen Afridi  Pakistan 2022 2023 25 Lahore Qalandars 17 7 1 0 70
Asif Ali  Pakistan 2022 2022 3 Islamabad United 0 3 0 0 0
Mohammad Nawaz  Pakistan 2023 2023 2 Quetta Gladiators 1 1 0 0 50
Tom Kohler-Cadmore  England 2023 2023 1 Peshawar Zalmi 0 1 0 0 0
David Wiese  South Africa 2023 2023 1 Lahore Qalandars 0 1 0 0 0

Source: ESPNcricinfo

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Role of a Captain". DangerMouse. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Shaheen Afridi most successful captain of PSL history". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  3. ^ Khurram Mahmood (26 March 2023). "A high-scoring league". The News International. Retrieved 26 March 2023.