| ODI captain | Period | ODIs | Wins | Lost | Tied/NR | Win/loss % |
| 1. A Wadekar | 1974 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0/0 | 0.00/100.00% |
| 2. S Venkataraghavan | 1975-79 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0/0 | 14.28/85.71% |
| 3. BS Bedi | 1976-78 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0/0 | 25.00/75.00% |
| 4. S Gavaskar | 1980-85 | 37 | 14 | 21 | 0/2 | 37.83/56.75% |
| 5. G Viswanath | 1981 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0/0 | 0.00/100.00% |
| 6. Kapil Dev | 1982-87 | 74 | 39 | 33 | 0/2 | 52.70/44.59% |
| 7. Syed Kirmani | 1983 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0/0 | 0.00/100.00% |
| 8. M Amarnath | 1984 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | N/A |
| 9. R Shastri | 1987-91 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0/0 | 36.36/63.63% |
| 10. D Vengsarkar | 1987-89 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0/0 | 44.44/55.55% |
| 11. K Srikkanth | 1989 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 0/1 | 30.76/61.53% |
| 12. M Azharuddin | 1990-99 | 174 | 90 | 76 | 2/6 | 51.72/43.67% |
| 13. S Tendulkar | 1996-2000 | 73 | 23 | 43 | 1/6 | 31.50/58.90% |
| 14. A Jadeja | 1998-99 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0/0 | 61.53/38.46% |
| 15. S Ganguly | 1999-2005 | 146 | 76 | 65 | 0/5 | 52.05/44.52% |
| 16. R Dravid | 2000-07 | 79 | 42 | 33 | 0/4 | 53.16/41.77% |
| 17. A Kumble | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0/0 | 100.00/0.00% |
| 18. V Sehwag | 2003-12 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0/0 | 58.33/41.66% |
| 19. MS Dhoni | 2007-16 | 200 | 110 | 74 | 5/11 | 55.00/37.00% |
| 20. S Raina | 2010-14 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 0/1 | 50.00/41.66% |
| 21. G Gambhir | 2010-11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0/0 | 100.00/0.00% |
| 22. V Kohli | 2013-19 | 63 | 47 | 14 | 1/1 | 74.60/22.22% |
| 23. A Rahane | 2015 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0/0 | 100.00/0.00% |
| 24. R Sharma | 2018-19 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0/0 | 80.00/22.00% |
Last update: 3 Feb 2019