All time captains’ XI in ODI cricket
The cricketing world has produced enough tales of legendary captains for us to relish it for centuries to come.
10. Daniel Vettori
If the team needed one spinner, there was only one choice among all the iconic captains. Daniel Vettori was another tactical genius, under whom the team developed some splendid youngsters. It wasn’t easy for him to take over the duty from Stephen Fleming, but with the finite resources he had, he did a decent job.
The left-arm spinner was one of the few non-Asian spinners to have played for such a long period of time and to have excelled as a leader was not an easy task. New Zealand came close to achieving something significant under his captaincy, but they fell short.
In his 82 matches as a captain, New Zealand won 41 matches and had a win-percentage of 55.33. He totally played 295 matches for the Kiwis, picking up 305 wickets. The likes of Brendon McCullum and Kane Williamson took giant strides under his leadership and towards the end of his captaincy days, the Kiwi cricket was beginning to reach the new heights.
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