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List of Team Captains of India Women's National Cricket

List of Team Captains of India Women's National Cricket

India Women's National Cricket Team Captains...

Here is the list of cricketers who have captained the Indian women's cricket team for women's test matches. Mithali Raj has been the most successful with 3 wins.

Test match captains:

Indian women's Test match captains
Name Year Opposition Location Played Won Lost Drawn
Shantha Rangaswamy 1976/7 West Indies India 6 1 1 4
1976/7 New Zealand New Zealand 1 0 0 1
1976/7 Australia Australia 1 0 1 0
1983/4 Australia India 4 0 0 4
Nilima Jogalekar 1984/85 New Zealand India 1 0 0 1
Diana Edulji 1984/5 New Zealand India 2 0 0 2
1986 England England 2 0 0 2
Shubhangi Kulkarni 1986 England England 1 0 0 1
1990/1 Australia Australia 2 0 1 1
Sandhya Agarwal 1990/1 Australia Australia 1 0 1 0
Purnima Rau 1994/5 New Zealand New Zealand 1 0 0 1
1995/6 England India 2 0 1 1
Pramila Bhatt 1995/6 England India 1 0 0 1
Chanderkanta Kaul 1999 England England 1 0 0 1
Anjum Chopra 2001/2 England India 1 0 0 1
2001/2 South Africa South Africa 1 1 0 0
2002 England England 1 0 0 1
Mamatha Maben 2003/4 New Zealand India 1 0 0 1
Mithali Raj 2005/6 England India 1 0 0 1
2005/6 Australia Australia 1 0 1 0
2006 England England 2 1 0 1
2014 England England 1 1 0
2014 South Africa India 1 1 0
2021 England England 1 0 0
2021 Australia Australia 1 0 0

Women's ODI (One-Day International) Captains:

Here is the list of cricketers who have captained the Indian women's cricket team for One Day Internationals. The appearance in the World Cup final against Australia in 2004/5 represents India's best performance in the Women's World Cup. Mithali Raj has been successful with 82 wins.

Indian Women's One Day International captains
Name Year Played Won Lost Tied
Diana Edulji 1978–1993 18 7 11 0
Shantha Rangaswamy 1982–1984 16 4 12 0
Shubhangi Kulkarni 1986 1 0 1 0
Purnima Rau 1995 8 5 3 0
Pramila Bhatt 1995–1997 7 5 1 1
Chanderkanta Kaul 1999 4 3 1 0
Anju Jain 2000 8 5 3 0
Anjum Chopra 2002–2012 28 10 17 0
Mamatha Maben 2003–2004 19 14 5 0
Mithali Raj 2003–present 132 82 47 0
Jhulan Goswami 2008–2011 25 12 13 0
Rumeli Dhar 2008 1 0 1 0
Harmanpreet Kaur 2013–Present 11 10 1 0

Women's Twenty-20 International Captains:

List of cricketers who have captained the Indian women's cricket team for Twenty20 Internationals. Harmanpreet Kaur is a successful player with 38 wins.

Indian Women's Twenty-20 International captains
Name Year Played Won Lost Tied
Mithali Raj 2006–2016 32 17 15 0
Jhulan Goswami 2008–2015 18 8 10 0
Anjum Chopra 2012 10 3 7 0
Harmanpreet Kaur 2012–present 59 38 19 0
Smriti Mandhana 2019–2023 11 6 5 0
1934 The first women's test was played between England and Australia.
The Indian Women's Cricket Association was formed in 1973.
The Indian women's team played its first test match against West Indies in 1976.
India registered their first Test victory against West Indies under the captaincy of Shantha Rangaswamy at the Moin-ul-Haq Stadium in Patna in November 1978.
Santha Rangaswamy led the women's team in the first test match against West Indies at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in 1976.
Diana Edulji was the women's One Day International captain against England at the Eden Gardens in 1978.
Mithali Raj became the first WT20I captain against England in Derby in 2006.
In 2021, the BCCI announced that Ramesh Powar would become the head coach of the Indian women's cricket team.
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