This is a list of all cricketers who have captained Afghanistan in an official international match. This includes the ICC Trophy, Under-19 games and One Day International.
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Afghanistan cricket team for at least one Test match.
A cricketer who has a symbol of next to a Test match series describes their role as captain and their participation in at least one game for the team.
| Afghanistan Test match captains[1] [2] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | Year | Opposition | Location | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn | |
| 1 | Asghar Afghan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Total | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 2 | Rashid Khan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 3 | Hashmatullah Shahidi | 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Grand total[3] | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | |||||
Afghanistan played their first ODI on April 19, 2009.The table of results is complete up to the third ODI against Sri Lanka in November 2022.
| 1 | 2009–2012 | 22 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
| 2 | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 3 | 2013-2015 | 28 | 13 | 0 | 15 | 0 | |
| 4 | 2015–2021 | 59 | 34 | 1 | 21 | 3 | |
| 5 | 2018–2019 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| 6 | 2019 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |
| 7 | 2022 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |
| Grand total | 141 | 70 | 1 | 66 | 4 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Afghanistan played their first T20I on February 1, 2010.The table of results is complete up to the third T20I against Pakistan in March 2023.
| 1 | 2010–2012 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 2013–2022 | 35 | 16 | 0 | 19 | 0 | ||
| 3 | 2015–2021 | 52 | 42 | 1 | 9 | 0 | ||
| 4 | 2019–present | 13 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Total[5] | 113 | 72 | 1 | 40 | 0 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Afghanistan debuted in the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier in the 2009 tournament
| Afghan ICC Trophy (ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier) Captains | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Name | Year | Played | Won | Tied | Lost | No Result | |
| 1 | 2009 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 2018 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Overall | 20 | 11 | - | 9 | - | |||