Top 10 Captains with most runs in Tests

2. Allan Border – 6623 runs:

Allan Border captained the Australian team from 1984-1994. His captaincy period coincided with the retirements of players such as Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee and Rod Marsh. He also had to deal with the exodus of players to the world series cricket, led by Kerry Packer of Channel 9.

But he went on to make a completely new team with players like Steve Waugh, Dean Jones, Craig McDermott and Merv Hughes making their careers under his tutelage. He captained Australia in astonishing 93 (consecutive) matches and scored 6623 runs at average of 50.94 and scored 15 hundred with a best of 205 against New Zealand in 1987 at Adelaide.