The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), govern the rules and regulations for the Indian cricket team. BCCI is the richest cricket board in the world. BCCI is a member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International status.
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The game of cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th-century. India played its first cricket test match as a national team only on 25 June 1932 at Lord's in England. Till last year say around end of October 2008, the Indian National Cricket team has played 423 Test matches, winning 22.69%, losing 32.15% and drawing 44.91% of its games. They also had one test match which is tied.
Compared to the Cricket test matches Indian cricket team has a better record in the ODI's(One Day Internationals). In the recent past Mahendra Singh Dhoni took over as the captain of the Indian One day International Cricket team and so far has done a remarkable job. People say he will be one of the best captains to lead the team in the Indian Cricket history. His command and cool temper on the field makes him invincible, they say.
In the earlier days about 3 decades ago, test matches were the only form of cricket played. In the early 1970's Indian Cricket team was well know for its spin quartet consisting of 4 all time great spinners Bishen Bedi, E.A.S. Prasanna, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan. During the same period Indian Cricket saw the great's of Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath. These players were responsible for the back-to-back series wins in 1971 in the West Indies and then in England, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar. Gavaskar scored 774 runs in the West Indian series while Dilip Sardesai's 112 played a big part in their one Test win. In the 1980's Indian cricket found stroke makers such as the wristy Mohammed Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar and all-rounder Ravi Shastri.
One Day Cricket became more popular when India won the Cricket World Cup in 1983, defeating the then favourites West Indies in the final under the leadership of Kapil Dev. Later India went on to win the World Championship of Cricket and also the Asia Cup. Then came the greatest batsment in the world Sachin Tendulkar and the likes of Saurav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid. Sachin Tendulkar becuase of this great batting skills, agreesive batting soon became an idol for all Cricket loving fans not only in India with also all over the world. Sir Bradman compared Sachin with himself which is a commendable recognition.
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The latest form of Cricket called the T20 Cricket is very popular now a days. India won the T20 Cricket World cup last year and are hot favorites this year too. The ICC T20 World Cup will be played in England starting June 5, 2009. The Indian T20 cricket team has players like Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Pathan brothers, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma and of course Mahendra Singh Dhoni who is the captain of the Indian T20 Cricket team.
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