List of Australia national cricket captains

This is a list of the people who have been the official Australian captains in Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals cricket teams.

In the 1970s many of Australia's leading players signed up for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket and played in a number of SuperTests against other international sides.

Then in the mid-1980s there were two rebel Australian tours to South Africa, which was at that time banned from official competition because of the apartheid regime then in force there.

[24] With Gilchrist's retirement from all forms of representative cricket at the end of the 2007–08 season, Clarke was promoted to the regular vice-captain's position.

[25] Thereafter, Cameron White was promoted as the captain, but George Bailey has taken over the captaincy in the two match series against India.

Notes: Captains of World Series Cricket teams (during the Packer split) and of the Rebel Australian XI to visit apartheid South Africa in 1985–86 are as follows: Ian Chappell captained the WSC Australians in five Supertests in 1977–78, winning one and losing four.

In 1978–79 in Australia Ian Chappell captained the WSC Australians in four Supertests, winning one, losing two and drawing the other one.

In the same season in the West Indies, Ian Chappell went on to captain in five Supertests, winning one, losing one and drawing three.