This is a complete list of all of New Zealand's national cricket captains at official international level. As such it includes details of all the men who have captained at least one Test match or One Day International, all boys who have captained in at least one Youth Test or Youth ODI, and all women who have captained at least one women's Test match or women's one-day international. New Zealand became a full member of the Imperial Cricket Conference (now the International Cricket Council) on 31 May 1926 at the same time as India were made up to full membership, and their first-class cricket matches against other full member nations since that date have been Tests.
Men's cricket
Test match captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand national cricket team for at least one Test match. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player deputised for the appointed captain or was appointed for a minor proportion in a series.
The table of results is complete up to the end of the Test series against Zimbabwe in August 2025.
{| class="wikitable"
|+New Zealand Test match captains
! Number
! Portrait
! Name
! Year(s)
! Opposition
! Location
! Played
! Won
! Lost
! Drawn
! Win %
|-
| rowspan=4 | 1
| rowspan=4 | 80px
| rowspan=4 | Tom Lowry
|-
|| 1929–30 || || New Zealand || 4 || 0 || 1 || 3
|-
|| 1931 || || England || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 7 || 0 || 2 || 5 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=5 | 2
| rowspan=5 | 80px
| rowspan=5 | Curly Page
|-
|| 1931–32 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 1932–33 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1937 || || England || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 7 || 0 || 3 || 4 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 | 3
| rowspan=6 | 80px
| rowspan=6 | Walter Hadlee
|-
|| 1945–46 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
|| 1946–47 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1949 || || England || 4 || 0 || 0 || 4
|-
|| 1950–51 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 8 || 0 || 2 || 6 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=4 | 4
| rowspan=4 | 80px
| rowspan=4 | Bert Sutcliffe
|-
|| 1951–52 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1953–54 || || South Africa || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 4 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 0.00
|-
|-
|| 5 ||80px||Merv Wallace
|| 1952–53 || || New Zealand
|| 2 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 0.00
|-
| rowspan=4 | 6
| rowspan=4 | 80px
| rowspan=4 | Geoff Rabone
|-
| 1953–54 || || South Africa || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
| 1954–55 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 5 || 0 || 4 || 1 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=5 | 7
| rowspan=5 | 80px
| rowspan=5 | Harry Cave
|-
|| 1955–56 || || Pakistan || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1955–56 || || India || 5 || 0 || 2 || 3
|-
|| 1955–56 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 9 || 0 || 5 || 4 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=12 | 8
| rowspan=12 | 80px
| rowspan=12 | John R. Reid
|-
|| 1955–56 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 1958 || || England || 5 || 0 || 4 || 1
|-
|| 1958–59 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1961–62 || || South Africa || 5 || 2 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1962–63 || || New Zealand || 3 || 0 || 3 || 0
|-
|| 1963–64 || || New Zealand || 3 || 0 || 0 || 3
|-
|| 1964–65 || || New Zealand || 3 || 0 || 0 || 3
|-
|| 1964–65 || || India || 4 || 0 || 1 || 3
|-
|| 1964–65 || || Pakistan || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1965 || || England || 3 || 0 || 3 || 0
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 34 || 3 || 18 || 13 || 8.82
|-
|-
|| 9 || ||Murray Chapple
|| 1965-66 || || New Zealand
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=4 | 10
| rowspan=4 | 80px
| rowspan=4 | Barry Sinclair
|-
|| 1965–66 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1967–68 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=9 | 11
| rowspan=9 |
| rowspan=9 | Graham Dowling
|-
|| 1967–68 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 1968–69 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1969 || || England || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1969–70 || || India || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1969–70 || || Pakistan || 3 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1970–71 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1971–72 || || West Indies || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 19 || 4 || 7 || 8 || 21.05
|-
|-
| rowspan=8 | 12
| rowspan=8 |
| rowspan=8 | Bevan Congdon
|-
|| 1971–72 || || West Indies || 3 || 0 || 0 || 3
|-
|| 1972–73 || || New Zealand || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
|| 1973 || || England || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1973–74 || || Australia || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1973–74 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1974–75 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 17 || 1 || 7 || 9 || 5.88
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 | 13
| rowspan=6 |
| rowspan=6 | Glenn Turner
|-
|| 1975–76 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1976–77 || || Pakistan || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 1976–77 || || India || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1976–77 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 10 || 1 || 6 || 3 || 10.00
|-
|-
||14||80px||John Parker
||1976-77 || || Pakistan
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 | 15
| rowspan=6 | 80px
| rowspan=6 | Mark Burgess
|-
|| 1977–78 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1978 || || England || 3 || 0 || 3 || 0
|-
|| 1978–79 || || New Zealand || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
|| 1980–81 || || Australia || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 10 || 1 || 6 || 3 || 10.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=12 | 16
| rowspan=12 | 80px
| rowspan=12 | Geoff Howarth
|-
|| 1979–80 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1980–81 || || Australia || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1980–81 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1981–82 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1982–83 || || New Zealand || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 1983 || || England || 4 || 1 || 3 || 0
|-
|| 1983–84 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1983–84 || || Sri Lanka || 3 || 2 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1984–85 || || New Zealand || 3 || 2 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1984–85 || || West Indies || 4 || 0 || 2 || 2
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 30 || 11 || 7 || 12 || 36.67
|-
|-
| rowspan=7 | 17
| rowspan=7 | 80px
| rowspan=7 | Jeremy Coney
|-
|| 1984–85 || || Pakistan || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1985–86 || || Australia || 3 || 2 || 1 || 0
|-
|| 1985–86 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1986 || || England || 3 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1986–87 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 15 || 5 || 4 || 6 || 33.33
|-
|-
| rowspan=5 | 18
| rowspan=5 |
| rowspan=5 | Jeff Crowe<sup>1</sup>
|-
|| 1986–87 || || Sri Lanka || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1987–88 || || Australia || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
|| 1987–88 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 6 || 0 || 1 || 5 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=9 | 19
| rowspan=9 | 80px
| rowspan=9 | John Wright
|-
|| 1987–88 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1988–89 || || India || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 1988–89 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1989–90 || || Australia || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1989–90 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1989–90 || || New Zealand || 1 || 1 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 1990 || || England || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 14 || 3 || 3 || 8 || 21.42
|-
|-
| rowspan=9 | 20
| rowspan=9 | 80px
| rowspan=9 | Martin Crowe<sup>1</sup>
|-
|| 1990–91 || || Pakistan || 3 || 0 || 3 || 0
|-
|| 1990–91 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1991–92 || || New Zealand || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1992–93 || || Zimbabwe || 2 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1992–93 || || Sri Lanka || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1992–93 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1993–94 || || Australia || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 16 || 2 || 7 || 7 || 12.50
|-
|-
||21|| ||Ian Smith
||1990–91 |||| New Zealand
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 | 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=11 | 22
| rowspan=11 |
| rowspan=11 | Ken Rutherford
|-
|| 1992–93 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
|| 1993–94 || || Australia || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 1993–94 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 1993–94 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1994 || || England || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
|| 1994–95 || || South Africa || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 1994–95 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1994–95 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
|| 1994–95 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 18 || 2 || 11 || 5 || 11.11
|-
|-
| rowspan=8 | 23
| rowspan=8 | 80px
| rowspan=8 | Lee Germon
|-
|| 1995–96 || || India || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
|| 1995–96 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
|| 1995–96 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1995–96 || || West Indies || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1996–97 || || Pakistan || 2 || 1 || 1 || 0
|-
|| 1996–97 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 12 || 1 || 5 || 6 || 8.33
|-
|-
| rowspan=36 | 24
| rowspan=36 | 80px
| rowspan=36 | Stephen Fleming
|-
|| 1996–97 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
|| 1996–97 || || New Zealand || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 1997–98 || || Zimbabwe || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1997–98 || || Australia || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1997–98 || || New Zealand || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 1998 || || Sri Lanka || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 1998–99 || || New Zealand || 2 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1999 || || England || 4 || 2 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 1999–2000 || || India || 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
|| 1999–2000 || || New Zealand || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 1999–2000 || || New Zealand || 3 || 0 || 3 || 0
|-
|| 2000–01 || || Zimbabwe || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 2000–01 || || South Africa || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 2000–01 || || New Zealand || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 2000–01 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 2001–02 || || Australia || 3 || 0 || 0 || 3
|-
|| 2001–02 || || New Zealand || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 2001–02 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 2002 || || Pakistan || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
|| 2002 || || West Indies || 2 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 2002–03 || || New Zealand || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 2003 || || Sri Lanka || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 2003–04 || || India || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 2003–04 || || New Zealand || 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 2003–04 || || New Zealand || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1
|-
|| 2004 || || England || 3 || 0 || 3 || 0
|-
|| 2004–05 || || Bangladesh || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 2004–05 || || Australia || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 2004–05 || || New Zealand || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 2004–05 || || New Zealand || 2 || 1 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 2005 || || Zimbabwe || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 2005–06 || || New Zealand || 3 || 2 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 2005–06 || || South Africa || 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 2006–07 || || New Zealand || 2 || 1 || 1 || 0
|-
|colspan=3 | Total || 80 || 28 || 27 || 25 || 35.00
|-
|-
||25|| ||Dion Nash
||1998–99 |||| New Zealand
||3||0||1||2||0.00
|-
|-
|rowspan=16 | 26
|rowspan=16 | 80px
|rowspan=16 | Daniel Vettori
|-
||2007–08
|| || South Africa
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2007–08
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2007–08
|| || New Zealand
||3||1||2||0
|-
||2008
|| || England
||3||0||2||1
|-
||2008–09
|| || Bangladesh
||2||1||0||1
|-
||2008–09
|| || Australia
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2008–09
|| || New Zealand
||2||0||0||2
|-
||2008–09
|| || New Zealand
||3||0||1||2
|-
||2009
|| || Sri Lanka
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2009–10
|| || New Zealand
||3||1||1||1
|-
||2009–10
|| || New Zealand
||1||1||0||0
|-
||2009–10
|| || New Zealand
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2010–11
|| || India
||3||0||1||2
|-
||2010–11
|| || New Zealand
||2||0||1||1
|-
|colspan=3 |Total||32||6||16||10||18.75
|-
|-
|rowspan=10 | 27
|rowspan=10 | 80px
|rowspan=10 | Ross Taylor
|-
||2011–12
|| || Zimbabwe
||1||1||0||0
|-
||2011–12
|| || Australia
||2||1||1||0
|-
||2011–12
|| || New Zealand
||1||1||0||0
|-
||2011–12
|| || New Zealand
||3||0||1||2
|-
||2012
|| || West Indies
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2012
|| || India
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2012–13
|| || Sri Lanka
||2||1||1||0
|-
||2016–17
|| || India
||1||0||1||0
|-
|colspan=3 |Total||14||4||8||2||28.57
|-
|-
|rowspan=15 | 28
|rowspan=15 | 80px
|rowspan=15 | Brendon McCullum
|-
||2012–13
|| || South Africa
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2012–13
|| || New Zealand
||3||0||0||3
|-
||2013
|| || England
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2013–14
|| || Bangladesh
||2||0||0||2
|-
||2013–14
|| || New Zealand
||3||2||0||1
|-
||2013–14
|| || New Zealand
||2||1||0||1
|-
||2014
|| || West Indies
||3||2||1||0
|-
||2014–15
|| || United Arab Emirates
||3||1||1||1
|-
||2014–15
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2015
|| || England
||2||1||1||0
|-
||2015–16
|| || Australia
||3||0||2||1
|-
||2015–16
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2015–16
|| || New Zealand
||2||0||2||0
|-
|colspan=3 |Total||31||11||11||9||35.48
|-
|-
|rowspan=23 | 29
|rowspan=23 | 80px
|rowspan=23 | Kane Williamson
|-
||2016
|| || Zimbabwe
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2016
|| || South Africa
||2||0||1||1
|-
||2016–17
|| || India
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2016–17
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2016–17
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2016–17
|| || New Zealand
||3||0||1||2
|-
||2017–18
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2017–18
|| || New Zealand
||2||1||0||1
|-
||2018–19
|| || United Arab Emirates
||3||2||1||0
|-
||2018–19
|| || New Zealand
||2||1||0||1
|-
||2018–19
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2019
|| || Sri Lanka
||2||1||1||0
|-
||2019–20
|| || New Zealand
||2||1||0||1
|-
||2019–20
|| || Australia
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2019–20
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2020–21
|| || New Zealand
||1||1||0||0
|-
||2020–21
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2021
|| || England
||1||0||0||1
|-
||2021
|| || England
||1||1||0||0
|-
||2021–22
|| || India
||1||0||0||1
|-
||2022
|| || England
||2||0||2||0
|-
|colspan="3" |Total||40||22||10||8||55.00
|-
|-
|rowspan="12" | 30
|rowspan="12" |
|rowspan="12" | Tom Latham
|-
||2019–20
|| || Australia
||1||0||1||0
|-
||2020–21
|| || New Zealand
||1||1||0||0
|-
||2021
|| || England
||1||1||0||0
|-
||2021–22
|| || India
||1||0||1||0
|-
||2021–22
|| || New Zealand
||2||1||1||0
|-
||2021–22
|| || New Zealand
||2||1||1||0
|-
||2022
|| || England
||1||0||1||0
|-
||2024
|| || India
||3||3||0||0
|-
||2024
|| || New Zealand
||3||1||2||0
|-
||2025
|| || New Zealand
||3||2||0||1
|-
|colspan=3 |Total||18||10||7||1||55.56
|-
|-
|rowspan="9" | 31
|rowspan="9" | 80px
|rowspan="9" | Tim Southee
|-
||2022–23
|| || Pakistan
||2||0||0||2
|-
||2022–23
|| || New Zealand
||2||1||1||0
|-
||2022–23
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2022–23
|| || Bangladesh
||2||1||1||0
|-
||2023–24
|| || New Zealand
||2||2||0||0
|-
||2024
||
||New Zealand
||2||0||2||0
|-
||2024
|| || Sri Lanka
||2||0||2||0
|-
|colspan="3" |Total||14||6||6||2||42.85
|-
|-
|rowspan="3" | 32
|rowspan="3" |
|rowspan="3" | Mitchell Santner
|-
||2025
|| || Zimbabwe
||2||2||0||0
|-
|colspan="3" |Total||2||2||0||0||100
|-
|colspan=6 | Grand Total || 483 || 123 || 189 || 171||25.46
|-
|}
Note:
- <sup>1</sup> Jeff Crowe and Martin Crowe are brothers.
Men's One-Day International captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand national cricket team for at least one One Day International.
{| class="wikitable"
|+New Zealand ODI captains
! Number
! Name
! Year(s)
! Played
! Won
! Lost
! Tied
! NR
! Win %
|-
|1
|Bevan Congdon
|1973–1975
|7||1||3||0||3||25.00
|-
|2
|Glenn Turner
|1975–1976
|7||5||2||0||0||71.42
|-
|3
|Mark Burgess
|1978–1980
|8||2||6||0||0||25.00
|-
|4
|Geoff Howarth
|1980–1985
|60||31||26||0||3||54.39
|-
|5
|John Wright
|1983–1990
|31||16||15||0||0||51.61
|-
|6
|Jeremy Coney
|1984–1987
|25||8||16||0||1||33.33
|-
|7
|Jeff Crowe
|1986–1988
|16||4||12||0||0||25.00
|-
|8
|Martin Crowe
|1990–1993
|44||21||22||0||1||48.84
|-
|9
|Andrew Jones
|1992
|2||0||2||0||0||0.00
|-
|10
|Ken Rutherford
|1993–1994
|37||10||24||1||2||28.57
|-
|11
|Gavin Larsen
|1994
|3||1||2||0||0||33.33
|-
|12
|Lee Germon
|1995–1997
|36||15||19||2||0||41.67
|-
|13
|Stephen Fleming
|1997–2007
|218||98||106||1||13||47.80
|-
|14
|Dion Nash
|1999
|7||3||3||0||1||50.00
|-
|15
|Craig McMillan
|2001–2002
|8||2||6||0||0||25.00
|-
|16
|Chris Cairns
|2002–2003
|7||1||6||0||0||14.29
|-
|17
|Daniel Vettori
|2004–2011
|82||41||33||1||7||54.67
|-
|18
|Brendon McCullum
|2009–2016
|62||36||22 ||1||3||61.02
|-
|19
|Ross Taylor
|2010–2012
|20||6||12||0||2||30.00
|-
|20
|Kane Williamson
|2012–2023
|91||46||40||1||4||52.87
|-
|21
|Kyle Mills
|2013–2014
|4||1||2||0||1||33.33
|-
|22
|Tom Latham
|2017–2023
|44||28||15||0||1||63.04
|-
|23
|Tim Southee
|2018
|1||0||1||0||0||0.00
|-
|24
|Mitchell Santner
|2022-2025
|21||15||5||0||1||75.00
|-
|25
|Lockie Ferguson
|2023
|3||2||0||0||1||100.00
|-
|26
|Michael Bracewell
|2025-2026
|6||5||1||0||0||83.33
|-
| colspan="3" | Grand total
||853||399||403||7|| 44||49.32
|}
Twenty20 International captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand national cricket team for at least one Twenty20 International.
{| class="wikitable"
|+New Zealand Twenty20 International captains
! No.
! Name
! Year(s)
! Played
! Won
! Lost
! Tied
! NR
! Win %
|-
|1
|Stephen Fleming
|2005–2006
|5||2||2||1||0||40.00
|-
|2
|Daniel Vettori
|2007–2010
|28||13||13||2||0||46.43
|-
|3
|Brendon McCullum
|2008–2015
|28||13||14||0||1||48.15
|-
|4
|Ross Taylor
|2010–2012
|13||6||4||2||1||50.00
|-
|5
|Kane Williamson
|2012–2024
|75||39||34||1||1||52.70
|-
|6
|Kyle Mills
|2013
|2||1||1||0||0||50.00
|-
|7
|Tim Southee
|2017–2023
|29||17||9||3||0||58.62
|-
|8
|Mitchell Santner
|2020–2026
|56||30||20||0||6||60.00
|-
|9
|Tom Latham
|2021–2023
|13||6||5||1||1||50.00
|-
|10
|Michael Bracewell
|2024–2025
|13||6||5||0||2||54.55
|-
|11
|Daryl Mitchell
|2026
|1||1||0||0||0||100.00
|-
|12
|James Neesham
|2026
|2||0||2||0||0||0.00
|-
|13
|Nick Kelly
|2026
|1||0||1||0||0||0.00
|-
| colspan="3" | Grand total
||266||134||110||10||12||52.76
|}
Captains in Men's ICC tournaments
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! colspan="10"| NZ Captains in ICC Tournaments
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Tournament
! Name
! Format
! Played
! Won
! Lost
! Tied
! NR
! Finish
! Win %
|-
|1975 Cricket World Cup
|Glenn Turner
|ODI (60 overs)
|4||2||2||0||0||style="background: #CD7F32"|Semi-Finals||50.00
|-
|1979 Cricket World Cup
|Mark Burgess
|ODI (60 overs)
|4||2||2||0||0||style="background: #CD7F32""|Semi-Finals||50.00
|-
|1983 Cricket World Cup
|Geoff Howarth
|ODI (60 overs)
|6||3||3||0||0||Group stage||50.00
|-
|1987 Cricket World Cup
|Jeremy Coney
|ODI
|6||2||4||0||0||Group stage||33.33
|-
|1992 Cricket World Cup
|Martin Crowe
|ODI
|9||7||2||0||0||style="background: #CD7F32"|Semi-Finals||77.78
|-
|1996 Cricket World Cup
|Lee Germon
|ODI
|6||3||3||0||0||Quarter-Finals||50.00
|-
|1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy
|Stephen Fleming
|ODI
|1||0||1||0||0||Quarter-Finals||0.00
|-
|1999 Cricket World Cup
|Stephen Fleming
|ODI
|11||5||5||0||1||style="background: #CD7F32"|Semi-Finals||50.00
|-
|2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy
|Stephen Fleming
|ODI
|3||3||0||0||0||style="background: gold;"|Champions||100.00
|-
|2002 ICC Champions Trophy
|Stephen Fleming
|ODI
|2||1||1||0||0||Group Stage||50.00
|-
|2003 Cricket World Cup
|Stephen Fleming
|ODI
|11||5||6||0||0||Super Six||55.55
|-
|2004 ICC Champions Trophy
|Stephen Fleming
|ODI
|2||1||1||0||0||Group Stage||50.00
|-
|2006 ICC Champions Trophy
|Stephen Fleming
|ODI
|4||2||2||0||0||style="background: #CD7F32"|Semi-Finals||50.00
|-
|2007 Cricket World Cup
|Stephen Fleming
|ODI
|11||8||3||0||0||style="background: #CD7F32"|Semi-Finals||72.72
|-
|2007 World Twenty20
|Daniel Vettori
|T20I
|6||3||3||0||0||style="background: #CD7F32"|Semi-Finals||50.00
|-
|2009 World Twenty20
|Daniel Vettori
|T20I
|5||2||3||0||0||Super 8||40.00
|-
|2009 ICC Champions Trophy
|Daniel Vettori
|ODI
|5||3||2||0||0||style="background: silver;"|Runners-up||60.00
|-
|2010 World Twenty20
|Daniel Vettori
|T20I
|5||3||2||0||0||Super 8||60.00
|-
|2011 Cricket World Cup
|Daniel Vettori
|ODI
|8||5||3||0||0||style="background: #CD7F32"|Semi-Finals||62.50
|-
|2012 World Twenty20
|Ross Taylor
|T20I
|5||1||4||0||0||Super 8||20.00
|-
|2013 ICC Champions Trophy
|Brendon McCullum
|ODI
|3||1||1||0||1||Group Stage||50.00
|-
|2014 World Twenty20
|Brendon McCullum
|T20I
|4||2||2||0||0||Super 10||50.00
|-
|2015 Cricket World Cup
|Brendon McCullum
|ODI
|9||8||1||0||0||style="background: silver;"| Runners-up||88.89
|-
|2016 World Twenty20
|Kane Williamson
|T20I
|5||4||1||0||0||style="background: #CD7F32"|Semi-Finals||80.00
|-
|2017 ICC Champions Trophy
|Kane Williamson
|ODI
|3||0||2||0||1||Group Stage||0.00
|-
|2019 Cricket World Cup
|Kane Williamson
|ODI
|11||6||4||0||1||style="background: silver;"|Runners-up||60.00
|-
|2021 ICC World Test Championship Final
|Kane Williamson
|Test
|1||1||0||0||0||style="background: gold;"|Champions|| 100.00
|-
|2021 World Twenty20
|Kane Williamson
|T20I
|7||5||2||0||0||style="background: silver;"|Runners-up||71.43
|-
|2022 Men's T20 World Cup
|Kane Williamson
|T20I
|6||3||2||0||1||style="background: #CD7F32"|Semi-Finals||60.00
|-
|2023 Cricket World Cup
|Kane Williamson
|ODI
|10||5||5||0||0||style="background: #CD7F32"|Semi-Finals||50.00
|-
|2024 Men's T20 World Cup
|Kane Williamson
|T20I
|4||2||2||0||0||Group Stage||50.00
|-
|2025 ICC Champions Trophy
|Mitchell Santner
|ODI
|5||3||2||0||0||style="background: silver;"|Runners-up||60.00
|-
|2026 Men's T20 World Cup
|Mitchell Santner
|T20I
|9||5||3||0||1||style="background: silver;"|Runners-up||55.56
|}
Women's cricket
Test match captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand women's cricket team for at least one women's Test match.
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" colspan="10"| New Zealand women's Test match captains
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Number
! Name
! Year
! Opposition
! Location
! Played
! Won
! Lost
! Drawn
! Win %
|-
|| 1 || Ruth Symons
|| 1934/35 || England || New Zealand
|| 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=4 | 2
| rowspan=4 | Ina Lamason
|-
|| 1947/48 || Australia || New Zealand
|| 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
|| 1948/49 || England || New Zealand
|| 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 | 3
| rowspan=6 | Rona McKenzie
|-
|| 1954 || England || England
|| 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
|| 1956/57 || Australia || Australia
|| 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
|| 1957/58 || England || New Zealand
|| 2 || 0 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1960/61 || Australia || New Zealand
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 7 || 0 || 2 || 5 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=9 | 4
| rowspan=9 | Trish McKelvey
|-
|| 1966 || England || England
|| 3 || 0 || 0 || 3
|-
|| 1968/69 || England || New Zealand
|| 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
|| 1971/72 || Australia || Australia
|| 1 || 1 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 1971/72 || South Africa || South Africa
|| 3 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
|| 1974/75 || Australia || New Zealand
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1976/77 || India || New Zealand
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1978/79 || Australia || Australia
|| 3 || 0 || 1 || 2
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 15 || 2 || 3 || 10 || 13.33
|-
|-
| rowspan=4 | 5
| rowspan=4 | Debbie Hockley
|-
|| 1984 || England || England
|| 3 || 0 || 0 || 3
|-
|| 1984/85 || India || India
|| 3 || 0 || 0 || 3
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 6 || 0 || 0 || 6 || 0.00
|-
|-
|| 6 || Lesley Murdoch
|| 1989/90 || Australia || New Zealand
|| 3 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 0.00
|-
|-
|| 7 || Karen Plummer
|| 1991/92 || England || New Zealand
|| 3 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=6 | 8
| rowspan=6 | Sarah Illingworth
|-
|| 1994/95 || India || New Zealand
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1994/95 || Australia || New Zealand
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1995/96 || Australia || Australia
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1996 || England || England
|| 3 || 0 || 0 || 3
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 6 || 0 || 0 || 6 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=4 | 9
| rowspan=4 | Maia Lewis
|-
|| 2003/04 || India || India
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 2004 || England || England
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 0.00
|-
|-
| colspan=5 | Grand total || 45 || 2 || 10 || 33 || 4.44
|}
Women's One-Day International captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand women's cricket team for at least one women's one-day international. New Zealand's greatest ODI success was under Emily Drumm when they won the 2000/1 World Cup.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" colspan="9"| New Zealand women's ODI captains
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Number
! Name
! Year
! Played
! Won
! Lost
! Tied
! NR
! Win %
|-
|| 1 || Bev Brentnall || 1973 || 5 || 3 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 60.00
|-
|| 2 || Trish McKelvey || 1978-1982 || 15 || 7 || 7 || 1 || 0 || 46.67
|-
|| 3 || Debbie Hockley || 1984-1999 || 27 || 12 || 15 || 0 || 0 || 44.44
|-
|| 4 || Ingrid Jagersma || 1985 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 100.00
|-
|| 5 || Lesley Murdoch || 1986-1990 || 15 || 8 || 6 || 0 || 1 || 57.14
|-
|| 6 || Karen Plummer || 1992 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 33.33
|-
|| 7 || Sarah Illingworth || 1993-1996 || 29 || 18 || 10 || 0 || 1 || 64.29
|-
|| 8 || Maia Lewis || 1997-2005 || 45 || 19 || 24 || 1 || 1 || 43.18
|-
|| 9 || Emily Drumm || 2000-2003 || 41 || 28 || 12 || 0 || 1 || 70.00
|-
|| 10 || Catherine Campbell || 2000 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 100.00
|-
|| 11 || Haidee Tiffen || 2004–2009 || 45 || 24 || 21 || 0 || 0 || 53.33
|-
|| 12 || Aimee Watkins || 2008–2011 || 22 || 3 || 18 || 0 || 1 || 14.29
|-
|| 13 || Amy Satterthwaite || 2010–2022 || 13 || 5 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 38.46
|-
|| 14 || Suzie Bates || 2011–2025 || 79 || 42 || 35 || 0 || 2 || 54.55
|-
|| 15 || Sophie Devine || 2020–2025 || 56 || 18 || 33 || 1 || 4 || 34.62
|-
|| 16 || Amelia Kerr || 2024-2026 || 8 || 5 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 62.50
|-
| colspan=3 | Grand total || 406 || 196 || 196 || 3 || 11 || 49.62
|}
Women's Twenty20 International captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand women's cricket team for at least one Twenty20 International match.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! style="background:#efefef;" colspan="9"| New Zealand women's Twenty20 International captains
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Number
! Name
! Year
! Played
! Won
! Lost
! Tied
! NR
! Win %
|-
|| 1 || Maia Lewis || 2004 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 100.00
|-
|| 2 || Haidee Tiffen || 2006–2009 || 8 || 3 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 37.50
|-
|| 3 || Aimee Watkins || 2009–2011 || 29 || 19 || 10 || 0 || 0 || 65.52
|-
|| 4 || Suzie Bates || 2012–2025 || 72 || 40 || 30 || 1 || 1 || 56.34
|-
|| 5 || Sophie Devine || 2014–2024 || 64 || 30 || 31 || 1 || 2 || 48.39
|-
|| 6 || Amy Satterthwaite || 2018–2021 || 12 || 6 || 5 || 0 || 1 || 54.55
|-
|| 7 || Amelia Kerr || 2023–2024 || 10 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 80.00
|-
| colspan=3 | Grand total || 196 || 107 || 82 || 3 || 4 || 55.73
|}
Youth cricket
Test match captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand Under-19 cricket team for at least one under-19 Test match. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player was captain for a minor proportion in a series.
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
! style="background:#efefef;" colspan="10"| New Zealand Under-19 Test match captains
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Number
! Name
! Year
! Opposition
! Location
! Played
! Won
! Lost
! Drawn
! Win %
|-
|| 1 || David Hartshorn
|| 1985/86 || Australia || Australia
|| 3 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 0.00
|-
|-
|| 2 || John Murtagh
|| 1986/87 || Australia || New Zealand
|| 3 || 0 || 2 || 1 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=4 | 3
| rowspan=4 | Lee Germon
|-
||1987/88 || India || New Zealand
|| 1 || 1 || 0 || 0
|-
|| 1988/89 || Australia || Australia
|| 3 || 0 || 2 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 4 || 1 || 2 || 1 || 25.00
|-
|-
|| 4 || Chris Cairns
|| 1989 || England || England
|| 3 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 33.33
|-
|-
| rowspan=4 | 5
| rowspan=4 | Llorne Howell
|-
| 1990/91 || England || New Zealand
|| 3 || 2 || 0 || 1
|-
|| 1991/92 || India || India
|| 2 || 0 || 1 || 1
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 5 || 2 || 1 || 2 || 40.00
|-
|-
|| 6 || Stephen Fleming
|| 1992/93 || Australia || New Zealand
|| 2 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 50.00
|-
|-
|| 7 || Richard Jones
|| 1993/94 || Pakistan || Pakistan
|| 3 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 0.00
|-
|-
|| 8 || Stephen Lynch
|| 1994/95 || Pakistan || New Zealand
|| 3 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 0.00
|-
|-
| rowspan=4 | 9
| rowspan=4 | Craig McMillan
|-
|| 1995/96 || Australia || Australia
|| 3 || 1 || 2 || 0
|-
|| 1996 || England || England
|| 3 || 1 || 0 || 2
|-
| colspan=3 | Total || 6 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 33.33
|-
|-
|| 10 || Jarrod Englefield
|| 1998/99 || England || New Zealand
|| 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 33.33
|-
|-
|| 11 || Brendon McCullum
|| 2000/01 || South Africa || New Zealand
|| 3 || 2 || 0 || 1 || 66.67
|-
|-
|| 12 || Andrew de Boorder
|| 2007 || India || New Zealand
|| 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 33.33
|-
|-
|| 13 || George Worker
|| 2008 || England || England
|| 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0.00
|-
|-
|| 14 || Kane Williamson || 2008
|| England || England
|| 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0.00
|-
|-
| colspan=5 | Grand total || 43 || 11 || 10 || 22 || 25.58
|}
Youth One-Day International captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the New Zealand Under-19 cricket team for at least one Under-19 One Day International.
{| class="wikitable" style="width:70%;"
! style="background:#efefef;" colspan="9"| New Zealand Under-19 ODI captains
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Number
! Name
! Year
! Played
! Won
! Lost
! Tied
! NR
! Win %
|-
|| 1 || David Hartshorn || 1986 || 3 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0.00
|-
|| 2 || John Murtagh || 1987 || 3 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0.00
|-
|| 3 || Lee Germon || 1988-1989 || 10 || 2 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 20.00
|-
|| 4 || Chris Cairns || 1989 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0.00
|-
|| 5 || David Mills || 1989 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0.00
|-
|| 6 || Llorne Howell || 1991-1992 || 5 || 3 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 60.00
|-
|| 7 || Stephen Fleming || 1993 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 33.33
|-
|| 8 || Richard Jones || 1994 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 33.33
|-
|| 9 || Stephen Lynch || 1995 || 3 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 66.67
|-
|| 10 || Craig McMillan || 1996 || 5 || 3 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 60.00
|-
|| 11 || Jarrod Englefield || 1998-1999 || 10 || 6 || 4 || 0 || 60.00
|-
|| 12 || James Franklin || 2000 || 5 || 1 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 20.00
|-
|| 13 || Brendon McCullum || 2001 || 3 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 50.00
|-
|| 14 || Ross Taylor || 2002 || 6 || 3 || 2 || 0 || 1 || 66.67
|-
|| 15 || Daniel Flynn || 2004 || 6 || 2 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 33.33
|-
|| 16 || Marc Ellison || 2006 || 6 || 3 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 50.00
|-
|| 17 || Andrew de Boorder || 2007 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 33.33
|-
|| 18 || Kane Williamson || 2008 || 10 || 4 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 50.00
|-
|| 19 || Craig Cachopa || 2010 || 6 || 4 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 66.67
|-
|| 20 || Will Young || 2012 || 11 || 4 || 7 || 0 || 0 || 36.36
|-
|| 21 || Tim Seifert || 2013 || 3 || 1 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 33.33
|-
|| 22 || Leo Carter || 2013 || 4 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 25.00
|-
|| 23 || Robert O'Donnell || 2014 || 6 || 3 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 50.00
|-
|| 24 || Josh Finnie || 2016 || 9 || 4 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 44.44
|-
|| 25 || Rachin Ravindra || 2016 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0.00
|-
|| 26 || Kaylum Boshier || 2018 || 7 || 3 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 42.86
|-
|| 27 || Ollie White || 2019 || 5 || 0 || 4 || 0 || 1 || 0.00
|-
|| 28 || Rhys Mariu || 2019 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0.00
|-
|| 29 || Jesse Tashkoff || 2019-2020 || 11 || 4 || 6 || 0 || 1 || 40.00
|-
|| 30 || Oscar Jackson || 2024 || 5 || 2 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 40.00
|-
|| 31 || Tom Jones || 2026 || 5 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 2 || 0.00
|-
| colspan=3 | Grand total || 164 || 59 || 96 || 1 || 8 || 37.82
|}
See also
- New Zealand national cricket team