The following table lists the 33 Indian captains with their performances from India’s test debut in 1932 against England to the just concluded first test against England at Chennai

No	Name	Season	Opp	Venue	P	W	L	D
1	CK Nayudu	1932	Eng	Eng	1	0	1	0
		1933–34	Eng	Ind	3	0	2	1
		Total			4	0	3	1
2	MK Vizianagram	1936	Eng	Eng	3	0	2	1
		Total			3	0	2	1
3	IAK  Pataudi	1946	Eng	Eng	3	0	1	2
		Total			3	0	1	2
4	L Amarnath	1947–48	Aus	Aus	5	0	4	1
		1948–49	Win	Ind	5	0	1	4
		1952–53	Pak	Ind	5	2	1	2
		Total			15	2	6	7
5	VS Hazare	1951–52	Eng	Ind	5	1	1	3
		1952	Eng	Eng	4	0	3	1
		1952–53	Win	Win	5	0	1	4
		Total			14	1	5	8
6	MH Mankad	1954–55	Pak	Pak	5	0	0	5
		1958–59	Win	Ind	1	0	1	0
		Total			6	0	1	5
7	Ghulam Ahmed	1955–56	NZl	Ind	1	0	0	1
		1958–59	Win	Ind	2	0	2	0
		Total			3	0	2	1
8	PR Umrigar	1955–56	NZl	Ind	4	2	0	2
		1956–57	Aus	Ind	3	0	2	1
		1958–59	Win	Ind	1	0	0	1
		Total			8	2	2	4
9	HR Adhikari	1958–59	Win	Ind	1	0	0	1
		Total			1	0	0	1
10	DK Gaekwad	1959	Eng	Eng	4	0	4	0
		Total			4	0	4	0
11	P Roy	1959	Eng	Eng	1	0	1	0
		Total			1	0	1	0
12	GS Ramchand	1959–60	Aus	Ind	5	1	2	2
		Total			5	1	2	2
13	NJ Contractor	1960–61	Pak	Ind	5	0	0	5
		1961–62	Eng	Ind	5	2	0	3
		1961–62	Win	Win	2	0	2	0
		Total			12	2	2	8
14	MAK Pataudi	1961–62	Win	Win	3	0	3	0
		1963–64	Eng	Ind	5	0	0	5
		1964–65	Aus	Ind	3	1	1	1
		1964–65	NZl	Ind	4	1	0	3
		1966–67	Win	Ind	3	0	2	1
		1967	Eng	Eng	3	0	3	0
		1967–68	Aus	Aus	3	0	3	0
		1967–68	NZl	NZl	4	3	1	0
		1969–70	NZl	Ind	3	1	1	1
		1969–70	Aus	Ind	5	1	3	1
		1974–75	Win	Ind	4	2	2	0
		Total			40	9	19	12
15	CG Borde	1967–68	Aus	Aus	1	0	1	0
		Total			1	0	1	0
16	AL Wadekar	1970–71	Win	Win	5	1	0	4
		1971	Eng	Eng	3	1	0	2
		1972–73	Eng	Ind	5	2	1	2
		1974	Eng	Eng	3	0	3	0
		Total			16	4	4	8
17	S Venkataraghavan	1974–75	Win	Ind	1	0	1	0
		1979	Eng	Eng	4	0	1	3
		Total			5	0	2	3
18	SM Gavaskar	1975–76	NZl	NZl	1	1	0	0
		1978–79	Win	Ind	6	1	0	5
		1979–80	Aus	Ind	6	2	0	4
		1979–80	Pak	Ind	5	2	0	3
		1980–81	Aus	Aus	3	1	1	1
		1980–81	NZl	NZl	3	0	1	2
		1981–82	Eng	Ind	6	1	0	5
		1982	Eng	Eng	3	0	1	2
		1982–83	Srl	Ind	1	0	0	1
		1982–83	Pak	Pak	6	0	3	3
		1984–85	Pak	Pak	2	0	0	2
		1984–85	Eng	Ind	5	1	2	2
		Total			47	9	8	30
19	BS Bedi	1975–76	NZl	NZl	2	0	1	1
		1975–76	Win	Win	4	1	2	1
		1976–77	NZl	Ind	3	2	0	1
		1976–77	Eng	Ind	5	1	3	1
		1977–78	Aus	Aus	5	2	3	0
		1978–79	Pak	Pak	3	0	2	1
		Total			22	6	11	5
20	GR Viswanath	1979–80	Pak	Ind	1	0	0	1
		1979–80	Eng	Ind	1	0	1	0
		Total			2	0	1	1
21	Kapil Dev	1982–83	Win	Win	5	0	2	3
		1983–84	Pak	Ind	3	0	0	3
		1983–84	Win	Ind	6	0	3	3
		1985	Srl	Srl	3	0	1	2
		1985–86	Aus	Aus	3	0	0	3
		1986	Eng	Eng	3	2	0	1
		1986–87	Aus	Ind	3	0	0	2
		1986–87	Srl	Ind	3	2	0	1
		1986–87	Pak	Ind	5	0	1	4
		Total			34	4	7	23
22	DB Vengsarkar	1987–88	Win	Ind	3	0	1	2
		1988–89	NZl	Ind	3	2	1	0
		1988–89	Win	Win	4	0	3	1
		Total			10	2	5	3
23	RJ Shastri	1987–88	Win	Ind	1	1	0	0
		Total			1	1	0	0
24	K Srikkanth	1989–90	Pak	Pak	4	0	0	4
		Total			4	0	0	4
25	M Azharuddin	1989–90	NZl	NZl	3	0	1	2
		1990	Eng	Eng	3	0	1	2
		1990–91	Srl	Ind	1	1	0	0
		1991–92	Aus	Aus	5	0	4	1
		1992–93	Zim	Zim	1	0	0	1
		1992–93	SAF	SAF	4	0	1	3
		1992–93	Eng	Ind	3	3	0	0
		1992–93	Zim	Ind	1	1	0	0
		1993	Srl	Srl	3	1	0	2
		1993–94	Srl	Ind	3	3	0	0
		1993–94	NZl	NZl	1	0	0	1
		1994–95	Win	Ind	3	1	1	1
		1995–96	NZl	Ind	3	1	0	2
		1996	Eng	Eng	3	0	1	2
		1997–98	Aus	Ind	3	2	1	0
		1998–99	Zim	Zim	1	0	1	0
		1998–99	NZl	NZl	2	0	1	1
		1998–99	Pak	Ind	2	1	1	0
		1998–99	Pak	Ind	1	0	1	0
		1998–99	Srl	Srl	1	0	0	1
		Total			47	14	14	19
26	SR Tendulkar	1996–97	Aus	Ind	1	1	0	0
		1996–97	SAF	Ind	3	2	1	0
		1996–97	SAF	SAF	3	0	2	1
		1996–97	Win	Win	5	0	1	4
		1997	Srl	Srl	2	0	0	2
		1997–98	Srl	Ind	3	0	0	3
		1999–00	NZl	Ind	3	1	0	2
		1999–00	Aus	Aus	3	0	3	0
		1999–00	SAF	Ind	2	0	2	0
		Total			25	4	9	12
27	SC Ganguly	2000–01	Ban	Ban	1	1	0	0
		2000–01	Zim	Ind	2	1	0	1
		2000–01	Aus	Ind	3	2	1	0
		2001	Zim	Zim	2	1	1	0
		2001	Srl	Srl	3	1	2	0
		2001–02	SAF	SAF	2	0	1	1
		2001–02	Eng	Ind	3	1	0	2
		2001–02	Zim	Ind	2	2	0	0
		2001–02	Win	Win	5	1	2	2
		2002	Eng	Eng	4	1	1	2
		2002–03	Win	Ind	3	2	0	1
		2002–03	NZl	NZl	2	0	2	0
		2003–04	NZl	Ind	1	0	0	1
		2003–04	Aus	Aus	4	1	1	2
		2003–04	Pak	Pak	1	1	0	0
		2004–05	Aus	Ind	2	0	1	1
		2004–05	SAF	Ind	2	1	0	1
		2004–05	Ban	Ban	2	2	0	0
		2004–05	Pak	Ind	3	1	1	1
		2005–06	Zim	Zim	2	2	0	0
		Total			49	21	13	15
28	R Dravid	2003–04	NZl	Ind	1	0	0	1
		2003–04	Pak	Pak	2	1	1	0
		2004–05	Aus	Ind	2	1	1	0
		2005–06	Srl	Ind	2	1	0	1
		2005–06	Pak	Pak	3	0	1	2
		2005–06	Eng	Ind	3	1	1	1
		2005–06	Win	Win	4	1	0	3
		2006–07	SAF	SAF	3	1	2	0
		2007	Ban	Ban	2	1	0	1
		2007	Eng	Eng	3	1	0	2
		Total			25	8	6	11
29	V Sehwag	2005–06	Srl	Ind	1	1	0	0
		2009	NZl	NZl	1	0	0	1
		2010	Ban	Ban	1	1	0	0
		2012	Aus	Aus	1	0	1	0
		Total			4	2	1	1
30	A Kumble	2007	Pak	Ind	3	1	0	2
		2007–08	Aus	Aus	4	1	2	1
		2008	SAF	Ind	2	0	1	1
		2008	Srl	Srl	3	1	2	0
		2008	Aus	Ind	2	0	0	2
		Total			14	3	5	6
31	MS Dhoni	2008	SAF	Ind	1	1	0	0
		2008	Aus	Ind	2	2	0	0
		2008	Eng	Ind	2	1	0	1
		2009	NZl	NZl	2	1	0	1
		2009	Srl	Ind	3	2	0	1
		2010	Ban	Ban	1	1	0	0
		2010	SAF	Ind	2	1	1	0
		2010	Srl	Srl	3	1	1	1
		2010	Aus	Ind	2	2	0	0
		2010	NZl	Ind	3	1	0	2
		2010	SAF	SAF	3	1	1	1
		2011	Win	Win	3	1	0	2
		2011	Eng	Eng	4	0	4	0
		2011	Win	Ind	3	2	0	1
		2011–12	Aus	Aus	3	0	3	0
		2012	NZl	Ind	2	2	0	0
		2012–13	Eng	Ind	4	1	2	1
		2012–13	Aus	Ind	4	4	0	0
		2013–14	Win	Ind	2	2	0	0
		2013–14	SAF	SAF	2	0	1	1
		2013–14	NZl	NZl	2	0	1	1
		2014	Eng	Eng	5	1	3	1
		2014–15	Aus	Aus	2	0	1	1
		Total			60	27	18	15
32	V Kohli	2014–15	Aus	Aus	2	0	1	1
		2015	Ban	Ban	1	0	0	1
		2015	Srl	Srl	3	2	1	0
		2015–16	SAF	Ind	4	3	0	1
		2016	Win	Win	4	2	0	2
		2016–17	NZl	Ind	3	3	0	0
		2016–17	Eng	Ind	5	4	0	1
		2017	Ban	Ind	1	1	0	0
		2017	Aus	Ind	3	1	1	1
		2017	Srl	Srl	3	3	0	0
		2017–18	Srl	Ind	3	1	0	2
		2018	SAF	SAF	3	1	2	0
		2018	Eng	Eng	5	1	4	0
		2018	Win	Ind	2	2	0	0
		2018–19	Aus	Aus	4	2	1	1
		2019	Win	Win	2	2	0	0
		2019–20	SAF	Ind	3	3	0	0
		2019–20	Ban	Ind	2	2	0	0
		2019–20	NZl	NZl	2	0	2	0
		2020–21	Aus	Aus	1	0	1	0
		2020–21	Eng	Ind	1	0	1	0
		Total			57	33	14	10
33	AM Rahane	2017	Aus	Ind	1	1	0	0
		2018	Afg	Ind	1	1	0	0
		2020–21	Aus	Aus	3	2	0	1
		Total			5	4	0	1
		G Total			546	159	168	219