# List of Pakistan Super League captains

Pakistan Super League is a professional Twenty20 cricket league, which is operated by the Pakistan Cricket Board. It is contested between six franchises comprising cricketers from Pakistan and around the world (excluding India). A player who leads the cricket team is known as its captain. Each team usually has one nominated captain, although if that player is not participating in a match another player will deputise for them. The captain of a cricket team typically shoulders more responsibility for results than team captains in other sports.

## Key

| Word | Meaning |
| First | Year of the first match played as a captain |
| Last | Year of latest match played as a captain |
| Matches | Number of matches played as a captain |
| Team(s) | Team(s) for which the player has played as captain |
| Won / Lost | Number of games won / lost as a captain |
| Tied | Number of games tied |
| NR | Number of games with no result |
| | Denotes a player who is full time captain of their respective franchise. |

## List of PSL captains

This is a list of the players who have acted as captain in at least one match of PSL. Five teams competed in both; first and second seasons of the league and with the addition of Multan Sultans in 2018 season currently six teams compete for the title. Shaheen Afridi, captain of the team Lahore Qalandars, who has led his team thrice to become the champions with 18 wins out of 35 played with a winning percentage of 51.42. His team have been the champions in 2022 and in 2023, becoming the first ever team in PSL history to successfully defend their PSL title. Shan Masood & Rilee Rossouw was led the Karachi Kings & Quetta Gladiators in PSL 9 respectively. Shadab Khan was the winning captain for Islamabad United in PSL 2024.
Pakistan Super League captains :
| Player | Nationality | First | Last | Matches | Team(s) | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | Win% |
| Sarfraz Ahmed | Pakistan | 2016 | 2023 | 80 | Quetta Gladiators | 38 | 41 | 0 | 1 | 48.10 |
| Misbah-ul-Haq | Pakistan | 2016 | 2018 | 26 | Islamabad United | 15 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 59.61 |
| Shahid Afridi | Pakistan | 2016 | 2016 | 10 | Peshawar Zalmi | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| Shoaib Malik | Pakistan | 2016 | 2019 | 30 | Karachi Kings Multan Sultans Peshawar Zalmi | 10 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 34.48 |
| Azhar Ali | Pakistan | 2016 | 2016 | 7 | Lahore Qalandars | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 28.5 |
| Dwayne Bravo | West Indies | 2016 | 2016 | 1 | Lahore Qalandars | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shane Watson | Australia | 2016 | 2016 | 2 | Islamabad United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Ravi Bopara | England | 2016 | 2016 | 1 | Karachi Kings | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Darren Sammy | West Indies | 2017 | 2020 | 39 | Peshawar Zalmi | 22 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 57.89 |
| Brendon McCullum | New Zealand | 2017 | 2018 | 18 | Lahore Qalandars | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 33.33 |
| Kumar Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 2017 | 2017 | 10 | Karachi Kings | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Imad Wasim | Pakistan | 2018 | 2023 | 51 | Karachi Kings | 23 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 48.97 |
| Eoin Morgan | England | 2018 | 2018 | 3 | Karachi Kings | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| JP Duminy | South Africa | 2018 | 2018 | 2 | Islamabad United | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Mohammad Hafeez | Pakistan | 2018 | 2019 | 4 | Peshawar Zalmi Lahore Qalandars | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Rumman Raees | Pakistan | 2018 | 2018 | 2 | Islamabad United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Mohammad Amir | Pakistan | 2018 | 2018 | 1 | Karachi Kings | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mohammad Sami | Pakistan | 2019 | 2019 | 9 | Islamabad United | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 44.44 |
| Shadab Khan | Pakistan | 2019 | 2024 | 56 | Islamabad United | 31 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 55.35 |
| AB de Villiers | South Africa | 2019 | 2019 | 3 | Lahore Qalandars | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 |
| Fakhar Zaman | Pakistan | 2019 | 2019 | 5 | Lahore Qalandars | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 |
| Shan Masood | Pakistan | 2020 | 2024 | 21 | Multan Sultans Karachi Kings | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 47.61 |
| Sohail Akhtar | Pakistan | 2020 | 2021 | 23 | Lahore Qalandars | 12 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 52.17 |
| Wahab Riaz | Pakistan | 2020 | 2022 | 28 | Peshawar Zalmi | 13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 48.21 |
| Babar Azam | Pakistan | 2020 | 2024 | 33 | Karachi Kings Peshawar Zalmi | 12 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 36.36 |
| Mohammad Rizwan | Pakistan | 2021 | 2024 | 48 | Multan Sultans | 32 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 |
| Usman Khawaja | Australia | 2021 | 2021 | 1 | Islamabad United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Shaheen Afridi | Pakistan | 2022 | 2024 | 35 | Lahore Qalandars | 18 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 51.42 |
| Asif Ali | Pakistan | 2022 | 2022 | 3 | Islamabad United | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mohammad Nawaz | Pakistan | 2023 | 2023 | 2 | Quetta Gladiators | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Tom Kohler-Cadmore | England | 2023 | 2023 | 1 | Peshawar Zalmi | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| David Wiese | South Africa | 2023 | 2023 | 1 | Lahore Qalandars | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rilee Rossouw | South Africa | 2024 | 2024 | 11 | Quetta Gladiators | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 45.45 |
Source: ESPNcricinfo