KL Rahul has been appointed to lead India in one day internationals against South Africa later this month. He would become the 26^th cricketer to lead India in one day internationals. The performance of the other 25 Indian skippers in one day internamtionals is furnished below

No	Player	Span	Mat	Runs	C	W	5	Ct	St
1	AL Wadekar	1974-1974	2	73	0	–	–	1	0
2	Venkataraghavan	1975-1979	7	50	0	1	0	2	0
3	BS Bedi	1976-1978	4	6	0	3	0	1	0
4	SM Gavaskar	1980-1985	37	702	0	0	0	4	0
5	GR Viswanath	1981-1981	1	5	0	–	–	0	0
6	N Kapil Dev	1982-1987	74	1564	1	91	1	31	0
7	SMH Kirmani	1983-1983	1	6	0	–	–	1	1
8	M Amarnath	1984-1984	1	–	–	–	–	–	–
9	RJ Shastri	1987-1991	11	441	1	10	0	5	0
10	DB Vengsarkar	1987-1989	18	481	0	–	–	3	0
11	K Srikkanth	1989-1989	13	340	0	1	0	5	0
12	M Azharuddin	1990-1999	174	5239	4	0	0	83	0
13	SR Tendulkar	1996-2000	73	2454	6	11	0	31	0
14	A Jadeja	1998-1999	13	396	1	2	0	9	0
15	SC Ganguly	1999-2005	146	5082	11	46	1	61	0
16	R Dravid	2000-2007	79	2658	2	–	–	36	1
17	A Kumble	2002-2002	1	–	–	2	0	2	0
18	V Sehwag	2003-2012	12	417	1	3	0	5	0
19	MS Dhoni	2007-2018	200	6641	6	1	0	185	73
20	SK Raina	2010-2014	12	232	0	3	0	4	0
21	G Gambhir	2010-2011	6	360	2	–	–	2	0
22	V Kohli	2013-2021	95	5449	21	0	0	56	0
23	AM Rahane	2015-2015	3	112	0	–	–	5	0
24	RG Sharma	2017-2019	10	543	2	–	–	4	0
25	S Dhawan	2021-2021	3	128	0	–	–	3	0

KL  Rahul would become the fifth cricketer from Karnataka to lead India in one day internationals. Others are – GR Viswanath, SMH Kirmani, R Dravid and A Kumble.

No	Player	Span	M	Runs	C	W	5	Ct	St
1	GR Viswanath	1981-1981	1	5	0	–	–	0	0
2	SMH Kirmani	1983-1983	1	6	0	–	–	1	1
3	R Dravid	2000-2007	79	2658	2	–	–	36	1
4	A Kumble	2002-2002	1	–	–	2	0	2	0