List of Pakistan Super League captains

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]

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

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This is a list of the players who have acted as captain in at least one match of PSL. Five teams competed in both; first and second seasons of the league and with the addition of Multan Sultans in 2018 season currently six teams compete for the title. Shaheen Afridi, captain of the team Lahore Qalandars, is the most successful captain who has led his team twice to become the champions with 17 wins out of 27 played with a winning percentage of 70.[2] His team have been the champions in 2022 and in 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

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References

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  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.