Indian national cricket captains

A total of 23 players have captained the Indian ODI team so far and among them Mahendra Singh Dhoni has the highest win rate (61.81%).^{[notes 1]} Kapil Dev comes second with a 56% win rate. Mohammad Azharuddin captained India in 174 matches.^[21] Kapil Dev was the first Indian captain to lead the side to Cricket World Cup victory, in 1983. Mahendra Singh Dhoni won India's second World Cup in 2011. M.S. Dhoni is the first and only wicket keeper to captain any team for more than 50 matches.^[22] Azharuddin (2), Tendulkar (1) and Dhoni (3) are the only captains with tied-ODI matches.^[23]

Number	Name	Year	Played	Won	Lost	Tied	No result	Win %[notes 2]
1	Ajit Wadekar	1974	2	2	0	0	0	100
2	Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan	1975–1979	7	1	6	0	0	14
3	Bishan Singh Bedi	1975–1978	4	1	3	0	0	25
4	Sunil Gavaskar	1980–1985	37	14	21	0	2	40
5	Gundappa Viswanath	1980	1	0	1	0	0	0
6	Kapil Dev	1982–1992	74	40	32	0	2	56
7	Syed Kirmani	1983	1	0	1	0	0	0
8	Mohinder Amarnath	1984	1	0	0	0	1	—
9	Ravi Shastri	1986–1991	11	4	7	0	0	36
10	Dilip Vengsarkar	1987–1988	18	8	10	0	0	44
11	Krishnamachari Srikkanth	1989–1990	13	4	8	0	1	33
12	Mohammad Azharuddin	1989–1999	174	90	76	2	6	54
13	Sachin Tendulkar	1996–1999	73	23	43	1	6	35
14	Ajay Jadeja	1997–1999	13	8	5	0	0	62
15	Sourav Ganguly	1999–2005	146	76	65	0	5	54
16	Rahul Dravid	2000–2001, 2007	79	42	33	0	4	53
17	Anil Kumble	2001	1	1	0	0	0	100
18	Virender Sehwag	2003–2011	12	7	5	0	0	58
19	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	2007–present	191	104	72	4	11	59
20	Suresh Raina	2010–2014	12	6	5	0	1	54
21	Gautam Gambhir	2010–2011	6	6	0	0	0	100
22	Virat Kohli	2013–2014	17	14	3	0	0	82
23	Ajinkya Rahane	2015	3	3	0	0	0	100
Total			896	451	399	7	39	53