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.
Key + Word MeaningFirstYear of the first match played as a captainLastYear of latest match played as a captainMatchesNumber of matches played as a captainTeam(s)Team(s) for which the player has played as captainWon / LostNumber of games won / lost as a captainTiedNumber of games tiedNRNumber 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; 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, who has led his team thrice to become the champions with 18 wins out of 35 played with a winning percentage of 51.42. 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. Shan Masood & Rilee Rossouw was led the Karachi Kings & Quetta Gladiators in PSL 9 respectively. Shadab Khan was the winning captain for Islamabad United in PSL 2024.
+Pakistan Super League captains Player Nationality First Last Matches Team(s) Won Lost Tied NR Win% Sarfraz Ahmed20162023 80Quetta Gladiators384101 48.10 Misbah-ul-Haq20162018 26Islamabad United151010 59.61 Shahid Afridi20162016 10Peshawar Zalmi6400 60 Shoaib Malik20162019 30Karachi Kings Multan Sultans Peshawar Zalmi101901 34.48 Azhar Ali20162016 7Lahore Qalandars2500 28.5 Dwayne Bravo20162016 1Lahore Qalandars0100 0 Shane Watson20162016 2Islamabad United1100 50 Ravi Bopara20162016 1Karachi Kings0100 0 Darren Sammy20172020 39Peshawar Zalmi221601 57.89 Brendon McCullum20172018 18Lahore Qalandars51120 33.33 Kumar Sangakkara20172017 10Karachi Kings5500 50 Imad Wasim20182023 51Karachi Kings232422 48.97 Eoin Morgan20182018 3Karachi Kings1200 33.33 JP Duminy20182018 2Islamabad United2000 100 Mohammad Hafeez20182019 4Peshawar Zalmi Lahore Qalandars2200 50 Rumman Raees20182018 2Islamabad United1100 50 Mohammad Amir20182018 1Karachi Kings0100 0 Mohammad Sami20192019 9Islamabad United4500 44.44 Shadab Khan20192024 56Islamabad United312401 55.35 AB de Villiers20192019 3Lahore Qalandars1200 33.33 Fakhar Zaman20192019 5Lahore Qalandars1400 20.00 Shan Masood20202024 21Multan Sultans Karachi Kings10911 47.61 Sohail Akhtar20202021 23Lahore Qalandars121100 52.17 Wahab Riaz20202022 28Peshawar Zalmi131400 48.21 Babar Azam20202024 33Karachi Kings Peshawar Zalmi122001 36.36 Mohammad Rizwan20212024 48Multan Sultans321600 66.66 Usman Khawaja20212021 1Islamabad United1000 100 Shaheen Afridi20222024 35Lahore Qalandars181511 51.42 Asif Ali20222022 3Islamabad United0300 0 Mohammad Nawaz20232023 2Quetta Gladiators1100 50 Tom Kohler-Cadmore20232023 1Peshawar Zalmi0100 0 David Wiese20232023 1Lahore Qalandars0100 0Rilee Rossouw2024202411Quetta Gladiators550145.45 Source: ESPNcricinfo
See also List of Pakistan Super League cricketers List of Pakistan Super League records and statistics Pakistan Super League - PSL Tickets for Season 10
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