List of Indian Cricket Captains

People say cricket is a Religion but its more than that in India. Here is a List of Indian Cricket Captains.History of Indian Cricket goes back to the time British rule when players like Ranjitsinghji played for the English cricket team. Here is list of all Indian Cricket Captains who have represented India In all three formats which is ODI(One Day Internationals), Test Matches, T20s.

India Played its first test match on 31st May 1926 and first Indian captain was C.K. Naidu. What changed things for India happened under the captaincy of Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, It was under his captaincy that India started winning abroad. The most Successful Indian Test captain is M.S. Dhoni but Saurav Ganguly has the most test wins abroad. The current Indian cricket captain is Virat Kohli in all three formats.

INDIAN TEST CAPTAIN:

Sr.	Name	Year	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	C.K. Naidu	1932-34	4	0	3	1
2	Maharajkumar	1936	3	0	2	1
3	Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi	1946	3	0	1	2
4	Lala Amarnath	1947-52	15	2	6	7
5	Vijay hazare	1953	14	1	5	8
6	Vinoo Mankad	1954-58	6	0	1	5
7	Ghulam Ahmed	1955-58	3	0	2	1
8	Polly Umrigar	1955-58	8	2	2	4
9	Hemu Adhikari	1958-59	1	0	0	1
10	Datta Gaekwad	1959	4	0	4	0
11	Pankaj Roy	1959	1	0	1	0
12	Gulabrai Ramchand	1959-60	5	1	2	2
13	Nari Contractor	1960-62	12	2	2	8
14	Mansoor Ali Khan Patuadi	1961-75	40	9	19	12
15	Chandu Borde	1967-68	1	0	1	0
16	Ajit Wadekar	1970-74	16	4	4	8
17	Srinivas Venkataghavan	1974-79	5	0	2	3
18	Sunil Gavaskar	1975-84	47	9	8	30
19	Bishen Singh Bedi	1975-78	22	6	11	5
20	Gundappa Vishwanath	1979-80	2	0	1	1
21	Kapil Dev	1982-86	34	4	7	23
22	Dilip Vengasarkar	1987-89	10	2	5	3
23	Ravi Shastri	1987-88	1	1	0	0
24	Krishnamachari Srikkanth	1989-90	4	0	0	4
25	Mohammad Azharuddin	1989-99	47	14	14	19
26	Sachin Tendulkar	1996-00	25	4	9	12
27	Saurav Ganguly	2000-06	49	21	13	15
28	Rahul Dravid	2003-07	25	8	6	11
29	Virendra Sehwag	2005-12	4	2	1	1
30	Anil Kumble	2007-08	14	3	5	6
31	M.S. Dhoni	2008-15	60	27	18	15
32	Virat Kohli	2015-present	35	21	5	9
33	Ajinkya Rahane	2017-	1	1	0	0

INDIAN ODI CAPTAIN:

Ajit Wadekar was the first captain for the One day International team .What changed things for India was the captaincy of Kapil Dev, when India won the world cup in 1983. India won its Second world cup under the captaincy of M.S. Dhoni in 2011 who is the most Successful One day Captain.

Sr.	Name	Year	Played	Won	Lost	Tied	No Result
1	Ajit Wadekar	1974	2	0	2	0	0
2	Srinivas Venkatraghavan	1975-79	7	1	6	0	0
3	Bishen Singh Bedi	1975-78	4	1	3	0	0
4	Sunil Gavaskar	1980-85	37	14	21	0	2
5	Gundappa Vishwanath	1980-81	1	0	1	0	0
6	Kapil Dev	1982-92	74	39	33	0	2
7	Syed Kirmani	1983-84	1	0	1	0	0
8	Mohinder Amarnath	1984-85	1	0	0	0	1
9	Ravi Shastri	1986-91	11	4	7	0	0
10	Dilip Vengasarkar	1987-89	18	8	10	0	0
11	Krishnamachari Srikkanth	1989-90	13	4	8	0	1
12	Mohammed Azaharuddin	1989-99	174	90	76	2	6
13	Sachin tendulkar	1996-00	73	23	43	1	6
14	Ajay Jadeja	1997-00	13	8	5	0	0
15	Saurav Ganguly	1999-05	146	76	65	0	5
16	Rahul Dravid	2000-07	79	42	33	0	4
17	Anil Kumble	2001-02	1	1	0	0	0
18	Virendra Sehwag	2003-11	12	7	5	0	0
19	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	2007-2016	199	110	74	4	11
20	Suresh Raina	2010-14	12	6	5	0	1
21	Gautam Gambhir	2010-11	6	6	0	0	0
22	Virat Kohli	2013-present	49	38	10	0	1
23	Ajinkya Rahane	2015	3	3	0	0	0
24	Rohit Sharma	2017	3	2	1	0	0

INDIAN T20 CAPTAIN:

It is the Shortest format of the game and M.S. Dhoni was the first captain of India in this format and India won the Inaugural World cup in 2007. M.S. Dhoni is the most successful captain in this format as well.

Sr.	Name	Year	Played	Won	Lost	Tied	No Result
1	Virendra Sehwag	2006	1	1	0	0	0
2	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	2007-2016	72	41	28	1	2
3	Suresh Raina	2010-11	3	3	0	0	0
4	Ajinkya Rahane	2015	2	1	1	0	0
5	Virat Kohli	2017-Present	12	7	5	0	0
6	Rohit Sharma	2017	4	4	0	0	0