Talk:List of England cricket captains

message: You should check your list, from what I know, Groucho Marx never played such a decadent game. --Pgreenfinch 16:21, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Troll off.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.97.111 (talk) 19:05, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Here's a thought - shouldn't the list make some reference to Adam Hollioake's period as captain of England's one-day side? While he wasn't the full captain at the time - it was made clear that the Test captain at the time was the more important - he was an England captain., so should probably be included in the list. NickBarlow 16:04, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There are other examples of men who have captained the ODI side, but not the Test side. Knott springs to mind. I was going to add a separate table for ODI captains at the bottom of this article, but haven't gotten round to it yet. I also want to add a reference to Gooch and Gatting captaining rebel Tests in South Africa, jguk 17:08, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  One-day captains 

message: and the answer is... Ben Wright (cricketer)  81.157.225.167 23:53, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing U-19 captain feb 2007? 

message: I added the initial C., because his name is rarely seen without it.  Then, since "Sir C. Aubrey Smith" didn't link to his bio page, I removed the Sir.  This is consistent with the treament of F.S. Jackson and L.H. Tennyson in the list, who were both Hon.s when they captained England, and only became Sir and Lord, respectively, later.KD Tries Again (talk) 14:14, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: C. Aubrey Smith

message: I think that the whole lead paragraph needs a cleanup as most of it is a history of the English Cricket Team. I'll do it myself but as I'd be removing large sections of text I thought I'd get consensus first. Thanks, --Searle, L. (talk) 03:38, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro paragraph. 

message: I admit I've made this problem worse, but let's try to fix it now. Four paragraphs is a reasonable length for a lead section, but it's currently split as follows:
Parag 1: Approx 100 years of history
Parag 2,3 and 4: Approx 30 years of history
There are other problems, too. The article covers all forms of England captaincy, but the lead understandably mostly covers Test captains. Perhaps before we overhaul the article for recentism, we need to first discuss if the other elements should be retained here, or should be split off into parallel list articles. --Dweller (talk) 08:24, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The first paragraph is appropriate as it talks about the history of the England captaincy as a concept. The next three paragraphs should be summarily removed as they are not about the concept but merely a potted (and spotty) history of the various captains. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 00:23, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recentism in lead 

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message: According to cricinfo (as of 1 March 2021) Morgan had 120 matches as captain, including 7 No results. This includes this match which was abandoned without a ball being bowled, but after the toss. These games are officially recorded as a match (also mentioned here with an explanation). If anyone has a different source to use that does not count this game, then please raise it here. Spike 'em (talk) 10:08, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Morgan ODI no results 

message: In the part about Eoin Morgan being the only captain to lift a trophy for England it should state that he's the only captain to lift an ODI trophy as Collingwood lifted the t20 world cup in, I think, 2007.
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Dave 2A00:23C6:F389:3801:591:3FFB:D9C4:520F (talk) 12:40, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  ODI Captains