Most Test Runs As Captain
    Name Mat Inn Runs Avg 50 100 HS Career
1
RSA 		GC Smith 109 193 8659 47.83 36 25 277  9265
2
AUS 		AR Border 93 154 6623 50.94 36 15 205  11174
3
AUS 		RT Ponting 77 140 6542 51.51 35 19 209  13378
4
IND 		V Kohli 68 113 5864 54.80 18 20 254* 9230
5
ENG 		JE Root 64 118 5295 46.44 26 14 228  13543
6
WIN 		CH Lloyd 74 111 5233 51.30 27 14 242* 7515
7
NZL 		SP Fleming 80 135 5156 40.59 31 8 274* 7172
8
ENG 		AN Cook 59 111 4844 46.57 24 12 263  12472
9
WIN 		BC Lara 47 85 4685 57.83 19 14 400* 11953
10
PAK 		Misbah-ul-Haq 56 99 4214 51.39 35 8 135  5222
11
AUS 		GS Chappell 48 86 4209 55.38 19 13 235  7110
12
AUS 		SPD Smith 40 69 4139 68.98 14 17 239  10477
13
AUS 		MJ Clarke 47 86 3946 51.92 7 14 329* 8643
14
ENG 		MA Atherton 54 98 3815 40.58 22 8 185* 7728
15
AUS 		SR Waugh 57 83 3714 52.30 10 15 199  10927
16
SRI 		DPMD Jayawardene 38 66 3665 59.11 10 14 374  11814
17
AUS 		RB Simpson 39 71 3623 54.07 16 10 311  4869
18
ENG 		GA Gooch 34 63 3582 58.72 16 11 333  8900
19
WIN 		GS Sobers 39 71 3528 58.80 15 11 178* 8032
20
IND 		MS Dhoni 60 96 3454 40.63 24 5 224  4876
21
IND 		SM Gavaskar 47 74 3449 50.72 14 11 205  10122
22
ENG 		AJ Strauss 50 85 3343 40.76 14 9 169  7037
23
NZL 		KS Williamson 40 65 3331 57.43 14 11 251  9276
24
AUS 		MA Taylor 50 89 3250 39.63 16 7 334* 7525
25
ENG 		MP Vaughan 51 94 3170 36.02 13 9 166  5719
26
AUS 		DG Bradman 24 38 3147 101.51 7 14 270  6996
27
SRI 		A Ranatunga 56 92 3118 36.25 22 2 131  5105
28
ENG 		PBH May 41 65 3080 54.03 15 10 285* 4537
29
WIN 		IVA Richards 50 74 3068 45.11 23 6 146  8540
30
IND 		M Azharuddin 47 68 2856 43.93 9 9 192  6215
Bold = appeared less than 3 years ago.
Career = Total runs for entire career.
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