Records / One-Day Internationals / Individual records (captains, players, umpires) / Oldest captains on captaincy debut

Player	Age	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
N Gifford	44y 359d	England	v Australia	Sharjah	24 Mar 1985	ODI # 322
R Sharma	43y 306d	Hong Kong	v Bangladesh	Colombo (SSC)	16 Jul 2004	ODI # 2143
SW Lubbers	42y 330d	Netherlands	v New Zealand	Vadodara	17 Feb 1996	ODI # 1051
CEB Rice	42y 110d	South Africa	v India	Kolkata	10 Nov 1991	ODI # 686
RB Simpson	42y 19d	Australia	v West Indies	St John's	22 Feb 1978	ODI # 48
DB Close	41y 182d	England	v Australia	Manchester	24 Aug 1972	ODI # 2
DS de Silva	40y 264d	Sri Lanka	v New Zealand	Dunedin	2 Mar 1983	ODI # 186
AJ Traicos	40y 146d	Zimbabwe	v New Zealand	Hyderabad (Deccan)	10 Oct 1987	ODI # 454
GR Codrington	40y 0d	Canada	v Netherlands	Potchefstroom	26 Nov 2006	ODI # 2448
S Dhaniram	39y 1d	Canada	v Kenya	Nairobi (Gym)	18 Oct 2007	ODI # 2634
R Illingworth	38y 211d	England	v Australia	Melbourne	5 Jan 1971	ODI # 1
JH Edrich	37y 260d	England	v New Zealand	Dunedin	8 Mar 1975	ODI # 17
RB Kanhai	37y 253d	West Indies	v England	Leeds	5 Sep 1973	ODI # 8
KWR Fletcher	37y 189d	England	v India	Ahmedabad	25 Nov 1981	ODI # 125
JV Harris	37y 179d	Canada	v Bangladesh	Durban	11 Feb 2003	ODI # 1946
G Boycott	37y 70d	England	v Pakistan	Sialkot	30 Dec 1977	ODI # 46
FL Reifer	37y 3d	West Indies	v Bangladesh	Roseau	26 Jul 2009	ODI # 2862
CG Greenidge	36y 319d	West Indies	v Pakistan	St John's	15 Mar 1988	ODI # 507
JM Davison	36y 7d	Canada	v Zimbabwe	Port of Spain	16 May 2006	ODI # 2374
AJ Lamb	35y 287d	England	v West Indies	Bridgetown	3 Apr 1990	ODI # 622
Sarfraz Nawaz	35y 116d	Pakistan	v England	Karachi	26 Mar 1984	ODI # 256
GA Gooch	35y 43d	England	v Sri Lanka	The Oval	4 Sep 1988	ODI # 521
JM Brearley	35y 35d	England	v Australia	Manchester	2 Jun 1977	ODI # 42
BE Congdon	35y 0d	New Zealand	v Pakistan	Christchurch	11 Feb 1973	ODI # 5
RD Jacobs	34y 351d	West Indies	v India	Rajkot	12 Nov 2002	ODI # 1895
GM Hamilton	34y 294d	Scotland	v Canada	Aberdeen	7 Jul 2009	ODI # 2856
RW Staple	34y 290d	U.S.A.	v New Zealand	The Oval	10 Sep 2004	ODI # 2169
DL Murray	34y 278d	West Indies	v Australia	St John's	22 Feb 1978	ODI # 48
J Smits	34y 274d	Netherlands	v Scotland	Basseterre	22 Mar 2007	ODI # 2549
DAG Fletcher	34y 255d	Zimbabwe	v Australia	Nottingham	9 Jun 1983	ODI # 199
Zaheer Abbas	34y 250d	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Karachi	31 Mar 1982	ODI # 151
DL Houghton	34y 245d	Zimbabwe	v Sri Lanka	New Plymouth	23 Feb 1992	ODI # 716
JE Emburey	34y 225d	England	v India	Sharjah	2 Apr 1987	ODI # 442
Rizwan Cheema	34y 208d	Canada	v Kenya	Dubai (GCA)	11 Mar 2013	ODI # 3344
KC Wessels	34y 165d	South Africa	v Australia	Sydney	26 Feb 1992	ODI # 719
M Amarnath	34y 37d	India	v Pakistan	Sialkot	31 Oct 1984	ODI # 273
Misbah-ul-Haq	34y 35d	Pakistan	v India	Karachi	2 Jul 2008	ODI # 2730
IH Romaine	34y 11d	Bermuda	v Canada	Toronto	19 Aug 2006	ODI # 2406
MG Burgess	33y 363d	New Zealand	v England	Scarborough	15 Jul 1978	ODI # 52
SMH Kirmani	33y 353d	India	v West Indies	Guwahati	17 Dec 1983	ODI # 230
WM Lawry	33y 328d	Australia	v England	Melbourne	5 Jan 1971	ODI # 1
AY Karim	33y 299d	Kenya	v Bangladesh	Nairobi (Gym)	10 Oct 1997	ODI # 1239
PJL Dujon	33y 291d	West Indies	v England	Georgetown	15 Mar 1990	ODI # 621
DL Haynes	33y 244d	West Indies	v Pakistan	Sharjah	17 Oct 1989	ODI # 574
TM Dilshan	33y 228d	Sri Lanka	v India	Bulawayo	30 May 2010	ODI # 2983
AH Jones	33y 217d	New Zealand	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (PSS)	12 Dec 1992	ODI # 776
AL Wadekar	33y 103d	India	v England	Leeds	13 Jul 1974	ODI # 12
Sultan Zarawani	33y 79d	U.A.E.	v India	Sharjah	13 Apr 1994	ODI # 904
LP van Troost	33y 65d	Netherlands	v Namibia	Bloemfontein	3 Mar 2003	ODI # 1978
Khurram Khan	33y 25d	U.A.E.	v India	Dambulla	16 Jul 2004	ODI # 2144
RP Lefebvre	33y 19d	Netherlands	v Pakistan	Lahore	26 Feb 1996	ODI # 1062

Records include the following recent matches:
Scotland v Pakistan at Edinburgh, 1st ODI, May 17, 2013 [ODI # 3356]
Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Bulawayo, 3rd ODI, May 8, 2013 [ODI # 3355]
Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Bulawayo, 2nd ODI, May 5, 2013 [ODI # 3354]

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