| ODI captain | Period | ODIs | ODI wins | Lost | Tied/NR | Win/loss percentage |
| 1. Ajit 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. Bishan Singh Bedi | 1976-78 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0/0 | 25.00/75.00% |
| 4. Sunil Gavaskar | 1980-85 | 37 | 14 | 21 | 0/2 | 37.83/56.75% |
| 5. Gundappa 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. Mohinder Amarnath | 1984 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | N/A |
| 9. Ravi Shastri | 1987-91 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0/0 | 36.36/63.63% |
| 10. Dilip Vengsarkar | 1987-89 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0/0 | 44.44/55.55% |
| 11. Kris Srikkanth | 1989 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 0/1 | 30.76/61.53% |
| 12. Mohammad Azharuddin | 1990-99 | 174 | 90 | 76 | 2/6 | 51.72/43.67% |
| 13. Sachin Tendulkar | 1996-2000 | 73 | 23 | 43 | 1/6 | 31.50/58.90% |
| 14. Ajay Jadeja | 1998-99 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0/0 | 61.53/38.46% |
| 15. Sourav Ganguly | 1999-2005 | 146 | 76 | 65 | 0/5 | 52.05/44.52% |
| 16. Rahul Dravid | 2000-07 | 79 | 42 | 33 | 0/4 | 53.16/41.77% |
| 17. Anil Kumble | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0/0 | 100.00/0.00% |
| 18. Virender Sehwag | 2003-12 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0/0 | 58.33/41.66% |
| 19. MS Dhoni | 2007-16 | 199 | 110 | 74 | 4/11 | 55.27/37.18% |
| 20. Suresh Raina | 2010-14 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 0/1 | 50.00/41.66% |
| 21. Gautam Gambhir | 2010-11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0/0 | 100.00/0.00% |
| 22. Virat Kohli | 2013-18 | 52 | 39 | 12 | 0/1 | 75.00/23.07% |
| 23. Ajinkya Rahane | 2015 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0/0 | 100.00/0.00% |
| 24. Rohit Sharma | 2018 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0/0 | 85.71/14.28% |
Last update: 24 Sep 2018
With the ICC Cricket World Cup and Champions Trophy victories to his name, MS Dhoni is undisputedly the most successful Indian ODI captain till date. The Men in Blue became a better limited-overs side under Dhoni’s captaincy and they will look to get even better under the current captain, Virat Kohli. Talking about Kohli, he has the joint-second-most wins after first 38 ODI matches as captain (30).