With Dhoni missing the Adelaide Test of 2014-15 Australian Tour, Virat Kohli is set to become the 32nd Indian captain in test matches. Dhoni is the most successful in terms of wins and maximum test matches, Ganguly has won the maximum tests abroad, Gavaskar earned maximum draws, Gaekwad lost all matches, and Srikanth drew all the matches. Check the complete record of captains who led India since 1932. Rahane became 33rd test captain of India when Kohli got injured for Dharamsala test vs Aussies in 2017 March.
Virat Kohli has already captained India in 17 ODIs winning 14 of them. Last time India were blanked 0-4 in Australia, under Dhoni. Virat Kohli has played 29 tests before becoming the captain, scoring 1855 runs at an average of 39.46 with 6 centuries and 9 half-centuries. 119 is his highest test score. His scored his first test century at Adelaide. Since then he has scored one century each at South Africa and New Zealand. His other centuries have come at India against Australia, New Zealand and England.
Kohli has been the captain of IPL Team Royal Challengers Bangalore too. But, he does not have a great result to show in IPL. In his 40 matches as RCB captain in IPL, Kohli has won 19 and lost 18 matches. 2 of them were tied, they lost one and won one in Super Over. One match was abandoned. In IPL he is at 11th position in terms of number of matches as a captain.
In Test Matches, Dhoni has led India in the maximum test matches, while Sehwag is the only captain with 50% success. But he captained only in 4 test matches.
List of Captains Based on Number of Tests
- 1: 5
2-5: 10
6-10: 3
11-20: 5
21-30: 4
30+: 6
Players in Sequence by Years of Becoming Captain
- 1. 1932-34 CK Nayudu
2. 1936-36 Vizianagram
3. 1946-46 Nawab of Pataudi
4. 1947-52 Lala Amarnath
5. 1951-53 Vijay Hazare
6. 1955-58 Pauli Umrigar
7. 1955-59 Ghulam Ahmed
8. 1955-59 Vinoo Mankad
9. 1959-59 Datta Gaekwad
10. 1959-59 HR Adhikari
11. 1959-59 Pankaj Roy
12. 1959-60 Gulabrai Ramchand
13. 1960-62 Nari Contractor
14. 1962-75 Mansur Ali Khan
15. 1967-67 Chandu Borde
16. 1971-74 Ajit Wadekar
17. 1974-79 S Venkataraghavan
18. 1976-1978 Bishan Singh Bedi
19. 1976-1985 Sunil Gavaskar
20. 1980-80 Gundappa Viswanath
21. 1983-87 Kapil Dev
22. 1987-89 Dilip Vengasarkar
23. 1988-88 Ravi Shastri
24. 1989-89 K Srikanth
25. 1990-1999 Azharuddin
26. 1996-2000 Sachin Tendulkar
27. 2000-2005 Saurav Ganguly
28. 2003-2007 Rahul Dravid
29. 2005-12 Virender Sehwag
30. 2007-08 Anil Kumble
31. 2008-2014 Dhoni
32. 2014-2017 Virat Kohli
33. 2017 Ajinkya Rahane
Captains and their Performances
P=Matches Played, W=Won, L=Lost, D=Draw
| Captain | Test | W | L | D/Tie |
| Dhoni | 60 | 27 | 18 | 15 |
| Ganguly | 49 | 21 | 13 | 15 |
| Azharuddin | 47 | 14 | 14 | 19 |
| Gavaskar | 47 | 9 | 8 | 30 |
| Mansur Ali Khan | 40 | 9 | 19 | 12 |
| Kapil Dev | 34 | 4 | 7 | 22/1 |
| Virat Kohli | 26 | 16 | 3 | 7 |
| Dravid | 25 | 8 | 6 | 11 |
| Tendulkar | 25 | 4 | 9 | 12 |
| Bedi | 22 | 6 | 11 | 5 |
| Ajit Wadekar | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Lala Amarnath | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 |
| Vijay Hazare | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| Kumble | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| Nari Contractor | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Vengasarkar | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| Umrigar | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Vinoo Mankad | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Ramchand | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Venkataraghavan | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Gaekwad | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Nayudu | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Sehwag | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Srikanth | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Ghulam Ahmed | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Nawab of Pataudi | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Vizianagram | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Viswanath | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Adhikari | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Borde | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Pankaj Roy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Ravi Shastri | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ajinkya Rahane | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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