INDIAN CRICKET

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The Indian cricket team is an international cricket team representing India. It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the cricket governing body in India. The Indian Cricket Team is currently the highest paid national sports team in the world (in terms of sponsorship).Though the first match in India was recorded in 1721, when a group of sailors gathered to play in Western India, India's national cricket didn't play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's, becoming the sixth Test playing team. Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 matches they played in their first fifty years.The team gained strength near the end of the 50-year period with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet. The Indian team has continued to be highly ranked since then in both Test cricket and One-Day Internationals. The team won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and was runners-up in 2003. The current team contains many of the world's leading players, including Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumble, who hold numerous cricketing world records. As of November 2006, the team is ranked fourth in the ICC Test Championship and in sixth place in the ICC ODI Championship.In December 2006, it played and won its first ever Twenty20 international in South Africa, becoming the most recent Test team to play 20-20 cricket. The team was ousted from the 2007 Cricket World Cup tournament in the group stages following an abysmal performance by the team.