Rishabh Pant will turn out to be the thirty eighth Indian Check captain after Shubman Gill was dominated out of the second Check towards South Africa beginning Saturday. Gill was not totally match to characteristic within the second Check and can head to Mumbai for additional evaluation of his damage.
Gill, who picked up a neck damage in Kolkata, had taken over the captaincy earlier this yr in the course of the Anderson–Tendulkar Trophy towards England.
Virat Kohli, who retired from the format final month, stays India’s most-capped Check captain with 68 matches.
Full record of Indian Check captains – Variety of matches
1. CK Nayudu (1932-1934) – 4
2. Maharajkumar of Vizianagram (1936-1936) – 3
3. IAK Pataudi (1946-1946) – 3
4. Lala Amarnath (1947-1952) – 15
5. Vijay Hazare (1951-1953) – 14
6. Vinoo Mankad (1955-1959) – 6
7. Ghulam Ahmed (1955-1959) – 3
8. Polly Umrigar (1955-1958) – 8
9. Hemu Adhikari (1959-1959) – 1
10. Datta Gaekwad (1959-1959) – 4
11. Pankaj Roy (1959-1959) – 1
12. GS Ramchand (1959-1960) – 5
13. Nari Contractor (1960-1962) – 12
14. MIAK Pataudi (1962-1975) – 40
15. Chandu Borde (1967-1967) – 1
16. Ajit Wadekar (1971-1974) – 16
17. S Venkataraghavan (1974-1979) – 5
18. Sunil Gavaskar (1976-1985) – 47
19. Bishan Bedi (1976-1978) – 22
20. Gundappa Viswanath (1980-1980) – 2
21. Kapil Dev (1983-1987) – 34
22. Dilip Vengsarkar (1987-1989) – 10
23. Ravi Shastri (1988-1988) – 1
24. Ok Srikkanth (1989-1989) – 4
25. Mohammad Azharuddin (1990-1999) – 47
26. Sachin Tendulkar (1996-2000) – 25
27. Sourav Ganguly (2000-2005) – 49
28. Rahul Dravid (2003-2007) – 25
29. Virender Sehwag (2005-2012) – 4
30. Anil Kumble (2007-2008) – 14
31. MS Dhoni (2008-2014) – 60
32. Virat Kohli (2014-2022) – 68
33. Ajinkya Rahane (2017-2021) – 6
34. KL Rahul (2022-2022) – 3
35. Rohit Sharma (2022-2024) – 24
36. Jasprit Bumrah (2022-2025) – 3
37. Shubman Gill (2025*) – 8
38. Rishabh Pant (2025*) – 1
Printed on Nov 21, 2025