TM Dilshan’s 61 on his first outing as captain against India at Bulawayo on 30.05.10 made him the 40^th captain in the history of one day game to score a fifty on first appearance as captain. He is third Sri Lankan captain after ST Jayasuriya and MS Atapattu to achieve the feat. The following table lists out all the forty captains arranged chronologically

No	Captains	Runs	Team	Opp	Ground	DD	MM	YY
1	IM Chappell	53	Aus	Eng	Manchester	24	08	72
2	MH Denness	66	Eng	Win	Leeds	05	09	73
3	RB Kanhai	55	Win	Eng	Leeds	05	05	73
4	AL Wadekar	67	Ind	Eng	Leeds	13	07	74
5	Asif Iqbal	53	Pak	Aus	Leeds	07	06	75
6	GM Turner	171*	NZl	EAF	Birmingham	07	06	75
7	Majid Khan	60	Pak	Win	Birmingham	11	06	75
8	GS Chappell	59	Aus	Win	Adelaide	20	12	75
9	DL Murray	51	Win	Aus	St John’s	22	02	78
10	DAG Fletcher	69*	Zim	Aus	Nottingham	09	06	83
11	AR Border	73	Aus	Win	Melbourne	06	01	85
12	RJ Shastri	50	Ind	Pak	Indore	27	01	87
13	AJ Lamb	55*	Eng	Win	Bridgetown	03	04	90
14	RB Richardson	106*	Win	Pak	Sharjah	17	10	91
15	KC Wessels	81*	RSA	Aus	Sydney	26	02	92
16	MA Atherton	86	Eng	Win	Bridgetown	16	02	94
17	Aamer Sohail	55	Pak	Ind	Bangalore	09	03	96
18	SR Tendulkar	110	Ind	Srl	Col-RPS	28	08	96
19	SR Waugh	91	Aus	RSA	Bloemfontein	13	04	97
20	ST Jayasuriya	102	Srl	Zim	Col-SSC	26	01	98
21	Aminul Islam	70	Ban	Ind	Mohali	14	05	98
22	A Jadeja	50	Ind	Ken	Bangalore	20	05	98
23	AC Gilchrist	98	Aus	Win	Brisbane	14	01	01
24	GP Thorpe	62*	Eng	Srl	Dambulla	23	03	01
25	MS Atapattu	53*	Srl	Eng	Col-SSC	27	03	01
26	GJ Whittall	58*	Zim	Ind	Bulawayo	27	06	01
27	ME Trescothick	52	Eng	Zim	Bulawayo	10	10	01
28	Habibul Bashar	61	Ban	Zim	Harare	10	03	04
29	T Taibu	96*	Zim	Srl	Bulawayo	20	04	04
30	T Duffin	53	Zim	Ken	Bulawayo	25	02	06
31	RR Watson	80	Sco	Pak	Edinburgh	27	06	06
32	MEK Hussey	109*	Aus	Win	Kuala Lumpur	18	09	06
33	Misbah-ul-Haq	70*	Pak	Ind	Karachi	02	07	08
34	BB McCullum	71	NZl	Ind	Christchurch	08	03	09
35	AJ Strauss	79*	Eng	Win	Bridgetown	29	03	09
36	GM Hamilton	119	Sco	Can	Aberdeen	07	07	09
37	ShakibAlHasan	54	Ban	Win	Roseau	26	07	09
38	AN Cook	64	Eng	Ban	Dhaka	28	02	10
39	LRPL Taylor	70	NZl	Aus	Napier	03	03	10
40	TM Dilshan	61	Srl	Ind	Bulawayo	30	05	10