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Pietersen joins elite list of captains

August 04, 2008 18:07 IST
England [ Images ] named Kevin Pietersen [ Images ] as their new captain on Monday following Michael Vaughan's [ Images ] resignation after the series loss to South Africa [ Images ].

Pietersen, 28, will lead England against his native country in the fourth test against the South Africans starting at The Oval on Thursday, the England and Wales Cricket Board said.

Here is a list of players captaining Test teams despite being born in a different country:
Player Born in Captained Period Tests Won Lost Drawn Won%
Harris, Lord Trinidad England 1879-1884 4 2 1 1 50.00
Horan, TP Ireland Australia [ Images ] 1885 2 0 2 0 0.00
McDonnell, PS England Australia 1887-88 6 1 5 0 16.67
Warner, PF Trinidad England 1903-06 10 4 6 0 40.00
Jardine, DR India [ Images ] England 1931-34 15 9 1 5 60.00
Allen, GOB Australia England 1936-48 11 4 5 2 36.36
Headley, GA Panama West Indies [ Images ] 1948 1 0 0 1 0.00
Brown, FR Peru England 1949-51 15 5 6 4 33.33
Carr, DB Germany [ Images ] England 1952 1 0 1 0 0.00
Cowdrey, MC India England 1959-69 27 8 4 15 29.63
Dexter, ER Italy [ Images ] England 1961-64 30 9 7 14 30.00
Greig, AW South Africa England 1975-77 14 3 5 6 21.43
Lamb, AJ South Africa England 1990 3 0 3 0 0.00
Flower, A South Africa Zimbabwe 1993-2000 20 1 10 9 5.00
Hussain, N India England 1999-2003 45 17 15 13 37.78

Rajneesh Gupta