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.
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