International Cricket Captain 2008 featured on its United Kingdom cover, England's Monty Panesar. It contained all contemporary cricket players from first class cricket, Test cricket, List-A and One Day International teams, and can be played in a career mode indefinitely, with repeating domestic and international fixtures generated for each year, along with youth players continually added and other players retiring to enable an open-ended career as coach of a national or domestic side.
International Cricket Captain 2009 is the 12th game in the series so far. It contains all current cricket players from first class cricket, Test cricket, List-A and One Day International teams, and can be played in a career mode indefinitely, with repeating domestic and international fixtures generated for each year, along with youth players continually added and other players retiring to enable an open-ended career as coach of a national or domestic side. There have been many improvements in the game from the previous instalment International Cricket Captain 2008. It was first released on 2 July as a download only from the Childish Things website, and the box version was released on 17 July 2009.
International Cricket Captain 2010 is the 13th edition of the International Cricket Captain series. It contains all current cricket players from first class cricket, Test cricket, List-A and One Day International teams, and can be played in a career mode indefinitely, with repeating domestic and international fixtures generated for each year, along with youth players continually added and other players retiring to enable an open-ended career as coach of a national or domestic side. The game features all teams and competitions from the English Domestic Season, International teams and competitions including the T20 World Cup and for the first time in the Cricket Captain series, all teams and competitions from the Australian Domestic Season.
As with previous versions, the entire County cricket sphere is open to the player, with each of the counties as a playable team. New to the 2010 edition is the inclusion of the Australian state cricket teams, the New South Wales Blues, Victorian Bushrangers, Western Warriors, Southern Redbacks, Queensland Bulls and Tasmanian Tigers. All international Test playing nations and Zimbabwe also feature, as well as all One Day International playing teams though these are unplayable.
ICC 2011 received mixed reviews: GameSpot concluded that "international Cricket Captain 2011 doesn't break any new ground, but a wealth of real-life statistics married to a solid management sim makes it worth the investment for any budding cricket captains."
Built upon previous versions, with updated statistics for current players, ICC '13' also included new features: "All-Time Greats" in which players can assemble teams of great cricketers from different eras; "Classic England vs. Australia" in which players can replay one of five classic test matches from the England / Australia rivalry; international on-line, enabling players to engage in international Test, ODI and T20 matches. Various graphical and interface upgrades were also introduced, as well as the ability to pick opposition teams in custom series. It was released on 29 June 2013, a day later than planned following the discovery of an unexpected error.[6]
Santha Rangaswamy led the women's team in their first test match in 1976 against West Indies at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. Diana Edulji was the first Women's One Day International captain in 1978 against England at Eden Gardens. Mithali Raj became the first WT20I captain for Indian women's cricket team in 2006 against England at Derby.
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian men's cricket team for at least one One Day International. A total of 26 players have captained India in One Day Internationals for men's team, of which Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the most successful captain of men's cricket team with 110 wins.
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian men's cricket team for at least one Twenty 20 International. A total of 12 players have captained India in men's T20Is, of which Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the most successful with 41 wins.
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian women's cricket team for at least one women's Test match. Mithali Raj is the most successful captain of Indian women's cricket team with 3 wins.
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian women's cricket team for at least one women's one-day international. The World Cup Final appearance against Australia in 2004/5 represents India's best performance in a Women's World Cup. Mithali Raj is the most successful captain of Indian women's cricket team with 89 wins.
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian women's cricket team for at least one Twenty 20 International. Harmanpreet Kaur is the most successful Indian women's cricket team captain with 54 wins.
This is a list of cricketers whose have captained the Indian Men's Under-19 cricket team for at least one under-19 Test match. The very nature of Under-19 cricket means that in practice no youth captains the side for more than one year. Four men, Srikkanth, Shastri, Dravid and Virat have gone on to captain the senior side.
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian men's U-19 cricket team for at least one Under-19 One Day International. India's first great success in men's Under-19 One Day International cricket was in 1999/2000, when they won the Under-19 World Cup under the captaincy of Mohammad Kaif. The feat was repeated in 2008/9 and 2012 under the captaincy of Virat Kohli and Unmukt Chand. Again in 2018 India won the men's U-19 World Cup under the captaincy of Prithvi Shaw.
Wisden Obituary
Cronje, Wessel Johannes, South Africa's cricket captain in a record 53 Tests and138 one-day internationals between 1994 and 2000, died on June 1, 2002 when thecargo plane in which he was travelling crashed on Cradock Peak in the Outeniquamountain range on its approach to his home town, George, in the Western Cape. Hewas just 32. Two years earlier, Hansie Cronje's admission that he took bribes frombookmakers to provide information and fix matches exposed the extent of a corruptionscandal that cricket authorities had signally neglected to confront.
At first he had hotly denied charges levelled by the New Delhi police, who duringa phone-tapping operation in March 2000 heard him conspiring with an Indian bookmaker, Sanjeev Chawla, to predetermine performances. And such was his standing as a player, captain and sporting ambassador for post-apartheid South Africa that few in the cricket world doubted him, preferring to heap scorn on the Indian investigation.
Ali Bacher, managing director of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, spoke ofCronje's "unquestionable integrity and honesty". Then, four days after the accusation,Cronje confessed in a 3 a.m. phone call to Bacher that he had not been "entirelyhonest". He was immediately stripped of the captaincy, as his side prepared for a oneday series against Australia, and in subsequent testimony to the government-appointed King Commission revealed, sometimes in tears, further details of his involvement with bookmakers in match-fixing. The cricket world listened agog as much as aghast. The game's reputation, it seemed, was at an all-time low. Cronje's life and career were in tatters.
The importance of discipline, dedication and hard work had been inculcated in Hansieat an early age, honed at Grey College in his native Bloemfontein, and was mademanifest in 1991-92, his second year in charge, when the young Free State team,coached by Eddie Barlow to a level of physical and mental fitness rare even for SouthAfrican cricket, finished runners-up in the Castle Bowl (formerly the Currie Cup) andwon the limited-overs Nissan Shield. The next two seasons brought Castle Cup andone-day doubles, followed by one-day trophies in subsequent years - a total of seventitles in five seasons. International commitments meant the young captain was not everpresent, but his influence remained inspirational.
Inside the year, South Africa had been readmitted to full membership of the ICC,and the 22-year-old Cronje was one of four non-playing observers - two white, twonon-white - taken to India with the first post-isolation side. Three months later, hewas bowling five tidy overs for 17 as South Africa, captained by Kepler Wessels,shocked Australia with a nine-wicket victory at Sydney in the World Cup. He playedin eight of their nine games in that tournament, including the infamous semi-finalagainst England in which South Africa's target was adjusted after rain from 22 off 13balls to 21 off one. Then he went to the Caribbean for South Africa's first Test sincereadmission, and their first ever against West Indies. Cronje scored only five and two,but in 68 Tests would go on to make 3,714 runs at 36.41, as well as taking 43 wicketsat 29.95; in 188 one-day internationals he made 5,565 runs at 38.64, took 114 wicketsat 34.78 with an economy rate of 4.44, and held 72 catches. His first-class figuresfrom 184 games were 12,103 runs at 43.69 and 116 wickets at 34.43.
South Africa in 1992-93 and he took a career-best five for 32 in the opening one-dayinternational, won it with a six with three balls to spare, and conceded only 3.59 anover in the seven-match series. That tour also proved he had the mettle for Test cricket.Going in in the second over at Port Elizabeth, he stayed eight and three-quarter hours(411 balls) until he was last out for 135, the first and highest of his six Test centuries.When Donald took his match haul to 12 wickets, South Africa had their first Testvictory of the new era. Cronje's second hundred, 122, came in Colombo the followingSeptember to set up South Africa's biggest Test win - an innings and 208 runs - andSri Lanka's heaviest defeat.
Wessels was captain again when the two countries resumed hostilities in South Africa,and Cronje wasted no time extracting revenge for Adelaide. In six games in 14 days,he hammered the Aussie bowling for 721 runs: he began with 112 from 120 balls, thehigher of his two one-day international hundreds, hit 251, his maiden double-hundred,for Orange Free State and finished with 122 in the First Test, which South Africa wonby 197 runs. The double-hundred - next highest score was Gerry Liebenberg's 39 -remained Cronje's best.
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