Rohit Sharma, India cricket, India vs Sri Lanka
Rohit Sharma.ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images

Tomorrow (December 10), in Dharamsala, Rohit Sharma will join an elite group of Indian cricketers as he will lead the country for the first time in a One Day International.

With regular captain Virat Kohli rested for India's limited-overs series against Sri Lanka, the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) selectors have handed over the responsibility to Mumbai batsman Rohit.

It is not a new innings for the right-hander as he has already had a successful captaincy stint with Mumbai Indians (MI) in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

The 30-year-old opener will become the 24th skipper from India in ODIs. The first ever Indian captain was Ajit Wadekar, in 1974. Rohit has so far played 171 ODIs, scoring 6,207 runs with 15 hundreds.

The most successful Indian captain in ODIs is MS Dhoni. He led India to 110 victories from 199 contests. Rohit will have him in the team tomorrow, to guide. He will also lead India in the three-match Twenty20 International series agains the islanders.

On his captaincy, Rohit said today (December 9), "It [captaining India] will be a different ball game altogether. But the process and basics of captaincy of leading any team will remain the same. There are different set of players that I had in the IPL team and this is completely different."

Here is full list of India's ODI captains (as on today, December 9, 2017)

PlayerSpanMatchesWonLostTiedNo Result%
Ajit Wadekar 1974 2 0 2 0 0 0.00
S Venkataraghavan 1975-79 7 1 6 0 0 14.28
Bishan Bedi 1976-78 4 1 3 0 0 25.00
Sunil Gavaskar 1980-85 37 14 21 0 2 40.00
GR Viswanath 1981 1 0 1 0 0 0.00
Kapil Dev 1982-87 74 39 33 0 2 54.16
Syed Kirmani 1983 1 0 1 0 0 0.00
Mohinder Amarnath 1984 1 0 0 0 1 -
Ravi Shastri 1987-91 11 4 7 0 0 36.36
Dilip Vengsarkar 1987-89 18 8 10 0 0 44.44
Kris Srikkanth 1989 13 4 8 0 1 33.33
Mohammad Azharuddin 1990-99 174 90 76 2 6 54.16
Sachin Tendulkar 1996-2000 73 23 43 1 6 35.07
Ajay Jadeja 1998-99 13 8 5 0 0 61.53
Sourav Ganguly 1999-2005 146 76 65 0 5 53.90
Rahul Dravid 2000-07 79 42 33 0 4 56.00
Anil Kumble 2002 1 1 0 0 0 100.00
Virender Sehwag 2003-12 12 7 5 0 0 58.33
MS Dhoni 2007-16 199 110 74 4 11 59.57
Suresh Raina 2010-14 12 6 5 0 1 54.54
Gautam Gambhir 2010-11 6 6 0 0 0 100.00
Virat Kohli 2013-17 43 33 9 0 1 78.57
Ajinkya Rahane 2015 3 3 0 0 0 100.00

Statistics from "espncricinfo".