In this article, we will show you the cricket players who played under most captains in their cricket career!
Chris Gayle – 16 captains:
Till date, Chris Gayle has played in 462 matches in International cricket, among these matches, he played 90 games (20 Tests, 53 ODIs and 17 T20Is) as captain. He’d played the remaining 372 internationals under 16 different captains. He is the second highest cricketer who played under most captains in International cricket.
Among the 16 captains, Gayle played more than 100 International cricket matches only under Brian Lara’s captaincy (113) . Under nine of his 16 captains, Gayle played less than 10 matches in International cricket.
The Jamaican had played for the West Indies under more than one skipper per year in the recent past. Interestingly, out of Chris Gayle’s 16 captains, two don’t belong to the Caribbean Islands. In 2005, he played Tsunami Appeal match for ICC World XI against Asia XI under the captaincy of Ricky Ponting.
In the same year, Gayle played for the ICC World XI in two matches against Australia part of the Super Series. In those two ODI games, Shaun Pollock was the World XI ‘s captain.
List of captains Chris Gayle played under in International cricket:
Jimmy Adams (4 Tests, 13 ODIs), Carlos Brathwaite (6 T20Is), Dwayne Bravo (14 ODIs), Shivnarine Chanderpaul (10 Tests, 13 ODIs, 1 T20I), Daren Ganga (2 Tests), Jason Holder (42 ODIs, 2 T20Is), Carl Hooper (22 Tests, 44 ODIs), Ridley Jacobs (2 Tests, 4 ODIs), Brian Lara (26 Tests, 87 ODIs), Jason Mohammed (1 ODI), Kieron Pollard (2 ODIs), Shaun Pollock (2 ODIs), Ricky Ponting (1 ODI), Denesh Ramdin (4 Tests), Daren Sammy (11 Tests, 22 ODIs, 30 T20Is), Ramnaresh Sarwan (2 Tests, 3 ODIs, 2 T20Is).
