The Legendary Captains of Indian International ODI Team

Ajit Wadekar

 Ajit Wadekar’s name will dependably be written in gold ever of cricket. Wadekar spoke to India in its first since forever One Day International visit to England in 1974. Batting at no. 3 he scored 67 runs, finishing with a losing side. He scored 73 keeps running in his ODI vocation at a normal of 36.50.


Srinivasan Venkataraghavan

Srinivasan Venkataraghavan was one of the one of the famed Indian spin quartet 1970s. India won its first ODI under the captaincy of Srinivasan in 1975. He captained India in both the 1975 and 1979 World Cup.

Bishen Singh Bedi

 Bishen Singh Bedi was delegated as an ODI captain in 1975-1978 mostly with Srinivasan. In November 1978, he turned into the main skipper to yield an International cricket coordinate.

Sunil Gavaskar

Sunil Gavaskar was captain of Indian team on a few events in the mid-1980s, in spite of the fact that his record is not exactly amazing. Regularly outfitted with unpenetrative bowling assaults he would in general utilize moderate strategies which brought about expansive number of draws.

Gundappa Viswanath

 Gundappa Viswanath captained India in 1980 for a solitary ODI coordinate coming about to losing cause and was stripped by Sunil Gavaskar.

Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev captained India’s team in 1982-83 season when Gavaskar was refreshed. He captained Indian cricket team that won the 1983 world cup.

Syed Kirmani

 Syed Kirmni won the honor for the best wicket keeper in the 1983 world cup. As a captain he captained one match in 1983 coming about to a losing cause.

Mohinder Amarnath

Mohinder Amarnath is best known for his incredible execution in 1983 world cup. He was granted man of the match in the last and elimination round of 1983 world glass. He captained Indian team in 1983 of every a solitary ODI coordinate.

Ravi Shastri

Ravi Shastri is one of the two Indian skippers to have a 100 %-win record in tests. Shastri started as a bad habit commander to Kapil Dev in 1985-1986 season. What’s more, later was selected as an ODI captain in 1986.

Dilip vengsarkar

Dillip Vengsarkar assumed control over the captaincy from Kapil Dev after 187 world cups. He began   with two centuries in his first arrangement as a captain.


Krishnamachari Srikkanth

 Krishnamachari Srikkanth was made the captain of Indian team in 1989. He was the main Indian player to score 50 runs and get 5 wickets in an ODI.

Mohammad Azharuddin

Mohammad Azharuddin turned into the captain of Indian team succeeding Kris Srikkanth in 1989. He drove the team in 174 matches and prompted triumph in 90 coordinates the most elevated until gone by MS Dhoni.

Sachin Tendulkar

 Sachin Tendulkar is respected amongst the best batsmans of the age. He made one of the incredible records with bat yet couldn’t lead as a pioneer. He didn’t turn out to be excessively effective as a commander when contrasted with a batsman.

Ajay Jadeja

Ajay Jadeja played 196 ODIs in Indian team. He was viewed as a standout amongst the best defenders of    his time. He captained team India in 1998-1999. He was to some degree effective as a commander and later was supplanted by Sourav Ganguly.

Sourav Ganguly

 Sourav Ganguly is viewed as the best captains in present day times and one of the best batsmans ever. He is the eighth most noteworthy run scorer in ODIs.

Rahul Dravid

Rahul Sharad Dravid is viewed as one of the best batsmen ever of. He is the ebb and flow Overseas Batting Consultant for the Indian team, and furthermore the head mentor for the Under-19 and ‘A’ teams. He is casually known as Dependable or Mr. Trustworthy, and regularly alluded to as The Great Wall or The Wall by Indian cricket supporters.

Anil Kumble

 Anil Kumble is the third most astounding wicket taker ever. In 1999 while playing against Pakistan, Kumble rejected each of the ten batsmen in a Test coordinate innings, joining England’s Jim Laker as the main players to accomplish the accomplishment.

Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag is viewed as a standout amongst the most ruinous batsmen ever. Sehwag played as a forceful right-gave opening batsman and furthermore bowled low maintenance right-arm off-turn.

MS Dhoni

 Dhoni was named the captain of Indian squad for the debut ICC World Twenty20 held in South Africa in September 2007. India were delegated champions as Dhoni drove the team to triumph against Pakistan in an exciting challenge. He proceeded to turn into the ODI commander of the Indian team for the seven-coordinate ODI arrangement against Australia in September 2007.

Suresh Raina

Suresh Raina is a forceful left-gave center request batsman and an incidental off-turn bowler, he is likewise viewed as a standout amongst the best defenders in world cricket.

Gautam Gambhir

 Gautam Gambhir captained the Indian team in six ODIs from late-2010 to late-2011 with India winning each of the six matches. He had a necessary influence in India’s successes in the finals of both the 2007 World Twenty20 (75 keeps running from 54 balls) and the 2011 Cricket World Cup (97 from 122).

Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli captains the India national team. A right-gave top-request batsman, Kohli is viewed as a   standout amongst the best batsmen on the planet. He captained India Under-19s to triumph at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia, and a couple of months after the fact, made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka at 19 years old. At first having played as a hold batsman in the Indian team, he before long settled himself as a standard in the ODI center request and was a piece of the squad that won the 2011 World Cup.

Ajinkya Rahane

 Ajinkya Rahane was designated as captain of India for its voyage through Zimbabwe for ODIs and T20Is in 2015 when a second-string squad was chosen. India won that ODI arrangement 3– 0, in spite of the fact that Rahane was not ready to leave any enormous contacts with the bat, he made an aggregate of 112 of every three matches with just a single 50 years in it.

Rohit Sharma

In December 2017, India captain Virat Kohli was refreshed for the ODIs and T20I against Sri Lanka, in anticipation of India’s visit to South Africa, which started in the main seven day stretch of January 2018. Therefore, Rohit was named the Indian skipper without precedent for his vocation. India won the ODI arrangement 2– 1, their eighth back to back arrangement win since beating Zimbabwe in June 2016. India won the T20I arrangement 3– 0. Rohit Sharma was chosen to lead India for the Nidahas Trophy in March 2018 as Virat Kohli was resting.

Data showing the Name of the captains with their winning percentage

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