The Indian
cricket team is the
national cricket team of India.
Governed by the Board of Control for
Cricket in India (BCCI),
it is a full member of theInternational
Cricket Council (ICC)
with Test and One Day International (ODI) status.
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Although cricket was introduced to India by European
merchant sailors in the 18th-century and the first cricket club in India was
established in Calcutta in 1792, India's national
cricket team did not play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's. They became the sixth
team to be granted Test cricket status. In
their first fifty years of international cricket, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 test
matches. The
team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s with the emergence of
players such as Sunil
Gavaskar, Kapil
Dev and the Indian spin quartet—Erapalli
Prasanna and Srinivas
Venkataraghavan (both
off spinners), Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (a leg spinner), and Bishen
Singh Bedi (a
left-arm spinner). Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, the Indian
team has improved its overseas form since the start of the 21st century. It won
theCricket World Cup in 1983 under Kapil
Dev, was runners-up in 2003 under Sourav
Ganguly, and won the World Cup a second time in 2011 under MS Dhoni.
India have also been the Runners-up in 2000 ICC KnockOut
Trophy, and the Joint Champions along with Sri Lanka in 2002 ICC Champions
Trophy led by
Sourav Ganguly in both the instances. India also won the inaugural World Twenty20 under Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2007. The current team
contains many of the world's leading players, including Sachin
Tendulkar and Virender
Sehwag who hold
numerous cricketing world records.
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