Top 5 highest paid international captains in cricket:

1. Joe Root:8.9 crore

Joseph Edward Root MBE (born 30 December 1990) is an English international cricketer who is the current captain of England in Test cricket. He also represents Yorkshire in domestic cricket. Root was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and was England's leading run-scorer.

He was initially a right-handed opening batsman and occasional off-spinner, similar to former England captain Michael Vaughan. However, he has played the majority of his cricket for England in the middle order. He made his debut for England in the 2012 Test series in India. He made his ODI and Twenty20 International debuts on the same tour before scoring his maiden Test century at his home ground of Headingley the following spring against New Zealand. New Zealand batting great Martin Crowe described Root as one of the young "Fab Four" of Test cricket and Steve Smith, Kane Williamson, and Virat Kohli.

2. Virat Kohli:7 crore

Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer and the captain of the men's national team. A right-handed top-order batsman, he has made 70 centuries in international.

• First Indian to score a century on World Cup debut (2011). 
• Third Indian to make 2 ODI hundreds by 22 (after Sachin Tendulkar & Suresh Raina).
• Fastest Indian to complete 1000, 3000, 4000, and 5000 runs in ODI cricket.
• Fastest century by an Indian (of 52 balls against Australia at Jaipur, India in 2013).
• Fastest to score 25 ODI tons.
• Fastest to reach 7,500 ODI runs.
• Third player to score three double hundreds in a calendar year after Don Bradman and Ricky Ponting.
• Shares the record of 4 double hundreds with Don Bradman, Graeme Smith, Michael Clarke.

3. Finch, Paine:4.8 crore

Aaron Finch is a captain of the Australia ODI and t20 team, and Tim Paine is captain Australian test team.

Aaron James Finch (born 17 November 1986) is an Australian international cricketer who captains the Australian cricket team in limited-overs cricket.^[2] Finch currently holds the record for two of the three highest individual scores in Twenty20 Internationals (T20I), 172 against Zimbabwe in July 2018, beating his previous record of 156 against England in 2013.^[3][4] In July 2018, he became the first player to reach 900 rating points on the official International Cricket Council (ICC) T20I rankings.^[5] He made his Test debut for Australia in October 2018.

Timothy David Paine (born 8 December 1984) is an Australian international cricketer who currently captains the Australian national team in cricket. A right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper, he played for the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket. He was the captain of the Hobart Hurricanes before his selection for Australia in the 2017–18 Ashes series.

Elger: 3.2 crore

Dean Elgar (born 11 June 1987) is a South African cricketer who plays Tests and ODIs and is the current Test captain. He is a left-handed opening batsman and a slow-left arm bowler.

Temba Bavuma:2.5 crore

Temba Bavuma (born 17 May 1990)^[1] is a South African cricketer who is currently the South African national team captain in ODI And T20I. He was the first black African cricketer to make a Test century for South Africa. Brought up in the intense cricket culture of Langa – Bavuma, Thami Tsolekile, and Malusi Siboto are all from the same street^[1] – Bavuma was educated at South African College Junior School^[2] in Newlands, and St David's Marist Inanda High School in Sandton. He is primarily a Test player and regarded as a gritty, classical mid-order batsman and excellent fielder. Bavuma became the second South African cricketer to score a century on ODI debut with 113 against Ireland on 25 September 016.