Indian national cricket team

Indian national cricket team
Test status received	1932
First Test - Match	against England at Lord's , London , June 1932
First ODI	against England in Leeds , July 1974
First T20I	against South Africa in Johannesburg , December 2006
captain	Virat Kohli ( test , ODI & T20 )
Coach	Ravi Shastri
Official ICC test ranking	3 of 12
Official ICC ODI ranking	2 of 20
Official ICC T20I ranking	3 of 84
World Cup participation	12
First World Cup	1975
Best World Cup result	Winner (1983, 2011)
Champions Trophy participation	8th
First Champions Trophy	1998
Best Champions Trophy result	Winner (2002, 2013)
World Twenty20 participations	6th
First World Twenty20	2007
Best World Twenty20 result	Winner (2007)
Asia Cup participation	11
First participation in the Asia Cup	1984
Best Asia Cup result	Winner (1984, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2010, 2016, 2018)
As of May 26, 2020

The Indian cricket team is the national team in cricket that India represents at international level. She is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and is therefore entitled to carry out tests against other full members. The team is led by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

history

Beginnings

The first game of cricket played in India was dated in 1721. These were seamen from the British East India Company . The first known club is the Calcutta Cricket Club, which has existed since at least 1792. An Indian team's first tour to Europe took place in 1886, and two years later the first English team toured India.

Before India's independence

Before India's independence, some players of Indian descent competed in international cricket for the colonial power England. In 1911 there was the first time an Indian national team that toured England but did not play against England's national cricket team . As a result, India was officially accepted into the then Imperial Cricket Conference in 1926 and the Indian Cricket Board of Control was founded as an association in the following year . The first test was held in England in 1932 and lost with 158 runs. Until the outbreak of the Second World War, no win and only two draws could be achieved in seven games against England.

After India's independence

After the independence and division of India, the first games against the other test nations, such as Australia and the West Indies, took place. The first victory could not be celebrated against England until 1952 in Madras . The first test series victory came in the same year as the first series against Pakistan . In the course of the 1950s and 1960s, the team developed steadily and culminated in a first away win against New Zealand in 1968.

The rise of limited-overs cricket

At the beginning of the 1970s, one-day cricket was introduced, which, however, initially brought little success to India. So they were eliminated in the first two editions of the Cricket World Cup in 1975 and 1979 in the preliminary round. During that time, the team was stronger in test cricket, where they could keep up with the big teams of England and Australia. At the Cricket World Cup 1983 this changed when India managed to defeat the West Indies in the final and so the team recorded the first world title. In front of a home crowd four years later at the World Cup in 1987 , they were eliminated in the semi-finals.

1990s to the turn of the millennium

In the 1990s, the team's performance in test cricket was poor. There was no away win in this decade and only just over half of the home games could be won. Even with one-day cricket, the success could not be repeated. At the 1992 World Cup , seventh in the preliminary round, they were eliminated before the semi-finals and in 1996 on home soil against Sri Lanka in the semi-finals. The latter game was abandoned and scored for the opponent when there was a crowd riot in the Eden Gardens of Calcutta after poor performance by the Indians. Even at the end of the decade, things didn't get any better when they were eliminated in the semifinals of the newly founded Champions Trophy in 1998 and the last eliminated at the 1999 World Cup after acceptable results in the group phase in the Super Six round.

Millennium change until today

In 2000, John Wright, a foreign coach, was hired for the first time and the performance improved again. A highlight, for example, was the win after a follow-on in the Eden Gardens of Calcutta against Australia in 2001, which was only the third win after a follow-on in a test. After the first innings India was behind with 274, but was able to win with 171 runs. At the Champions Trophy 2002 India shared the title with Sri Lanka when the finals could not be held twice due to rain. At the World Cup 2003 they failed only in the final against the then dominant Australians. At the next event in 2007 , the team was traded as a possible title candidate, but failed in the preliminary round to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh . In the same year, however, the victory in the first edition of the Twenty20 cricket world championship was achieved . From 2009 India was the world's best team in test cricket, whose title they had to cede to England from 2011. At the 2011 World Cup, which was also held in India, the team managed to win the final with 6 wickets against Sri Lanka, which secured the second ODI cricket world championship title. At World Twenty 20 2012 they were eliminated in the Super 8 round due to a poor net run rate compared to Australia and Pakistan. This was accompanied by a decline in test cricket and a focus on the shorter versions of the game. In 2013 the Champions Trophy was won . At World Twenty 20 2014 the team was able to advance to the final and only lost there against Sri Lanka with 6 wickets. The 2015 Cricket World Cup was initially successful when the team advanced to the semi-finals without defeat. There, however, they lost to hosts Australia with 95 runs. At the Champions Trophy 2017 they made it to the final again, but lost to Pakistan with 181 runs, which they had clearly beaten in the preliminary round. At the Cricket World Cup 2019 they qualified as the best team in the preliminary round for the semi-finals, but failed there because of New Zealand.

Captains

No.	Surname	Period
1	CK Nayudu	1932-1934
2	Vijayananda Gajapathi Raju	1936
3	Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi	1946
4th	Lala Amarnath	1947-1953
5	Vijay Hazare	1951-1953
6th	Vinoo Mankad	1954-1959
7th	Ghulam Ahmed	1955-1959
8th	Polly Umrigar	1955-1959
9	Hemu Adhikari	1958-1959
10	Datta Gaekwad	1959
11	Pankaj Roy	1959
12	Gulabrai Ramchand	1959-1960
13	Nari Contractor	1961–1962
14th	Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi	1961-1975
15th	Chandu Borde	1967-1968
16	Ajit Wadekar	1970-1974
17th	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	1974-1979
18th	Sunil Gavaskar	1975-1984
19th	Bishan Singh Bedi	1975-1979
20th	Gundappa Viswanath	1979-1980
21st	Kapil Dev	1982-1987
22nd	Dilip Vengsarkar	1987-1989
23	Ravi Shastri	1987-1988
24	Krishnamachari Srikkanth	1989-1990
25th	Mohammad Azharuddin	1989-1999
26th	Sachin Tendulkar	1996-2000
27	Sourav Ganguly	2000-2006
28	Rahul Dravid	2003-2007
29	Virender Sehwag	2005–2012
30th	Anil Kumble	2007-2008
31	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	2008-2014
32	Virat Kohli	2015 – today
33	Ajinkya Rahane	2017-2018

Stages

See also : List of test cricket stadiums

India has so far used the following stadiums as home stadiums for testing.

No.	Stadion	city	First edition
1	Bombay Gymkhana Ground (Gymkhana Ground)	Mumbai	December 15, 1933
2	Ranji Stadium (Eden Gardens)	Kolkata	January 5, 1934
3	MA Chidambaram Stadium (Chepauk)	Chennai	February 10, 1934
4th	Feroz Shah Kotla	Delhi	November 10, 1948
5	Brabourne Stadium	Mumbai	December 9, 1948
6th	Green Park Stadium	Kanpur	January 12, 1952
7th	University Ground	Lucknow	October 23, 1952
8th	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium (Fateh Maidan)	Hyderabad	November 19, 1955
9	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	Chennai	January 6, 1956
10	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground (VCA Ground)	Nagpur	3rd October 1969
11	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium (Chinnaswamy Stadium)	Bangalore	November 22, 1974
12	Wankhede Stadium	Mumbai	23rd January 1975
13	Gandhi Stadium	Jalandhar	September 24, 1983
14th	Sardar Patel Stadium (Motera)	Ahmedabad	November 12, 1983
15th	Barabati Stadium	Cutack	4th January 1987
16	Sawai Mansingh Stadium	Jaipur	February 21, 1987
17th	Sector 16 Stadium	Chandigarh	November 23, 1990
18th	KD Singh Babu Stadium	Lucknow	January 18, 1994
19th	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	Mohali	December 10, 1994
20th	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	Nagpur	November 6, 2008
21st	Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium	Hyderabad	November 12, 2010
22nd	Holkar Stadium	Indore	October 8, 2016
23	Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium	Rajkot	November 9, 2016
24	ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium	Visakhapatnam	17th November 2016
25th	Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium	Pune	23rd February 2017
26th	JSCA International Stadium Complex	Ranchi	March 16, 2017
27	Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium	Dharamsala	March 25, 2017

In addition, the Afghanistan home tests carried out in India:

No.	Stadion	city	First edition
1	Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium	Dehradun	15th March 2019
2	Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium	Lucknow	November 27, 2019

Balance sheet

The team has the following results against the other full members of the ICC in Test, ODI and Twenty20 cricket ( as of August 1, 2020 ).

opponent	Testing					ODIs					Twenty20s
	Sp.	S.	U	N	N	Sp.	S.	U	N	NO	Sp.	S.	U	N	NO
Afghanistan	1	1	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0
Australia	98	28	1	42	27	140	52	0	78	10	20th	11	0	8th	1
Bangladesh	11	9	0	0	2	36	30th	0	5	1	11	10	0	1	0
England	122	26th	0	47	49	100	53	2	42	3	14th	7th	0	7th	0
Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0
New Zealand	59	21st	0	12	26th	110	55	1	49	5	16	6th	0	8th	0
Pakistan	59	9	0	12	38	132	55	0	73	4th	8th	6th	1	1	0
Zimbabwe	11	7th	0	2	2	63	51	2	10	0	7th	5	0	2	0
Sri Lanka	44	20th	0	7th	17th	159	91	1	56	11	19th	13	0	5	1
South Africa	39	14th	0	15th	10	84	35	0	46	3	15th	9	0	6th	0
West Indies	98	22nd	0	30th	46	133	64	2	63	4th	17th	10	0	6th	1

International tournaments

World Cricket Championship

• 1975 preliminary round
• 1979 preliminary round
• 1983 winner
• 1987 3rd place
• 1992 preliminary round
• 1996 3rd place
• 1999 Super 6
• 2003 2nd place
• 2007 preliminary round
• 2011 winner
• 2015 semi-finals
• 2019 semifinals

Champions Trophy

• 1998 semi-finals
• 2000 2nd place
• 2002 winner (shared)
• 2004 preliminary round
• 2006 preliminary round
• 2009 preliminary round
• 2013 winner
• 2017 2nd place

World Twenty20

• 2007 winner
• 2009 Super 8
• 2010 Super 8
• 2012 Super 8
• 2014 2nd place
• 2016 semi-finals

Asia Cup

• 1984 winner
• 1986 did not participate
• 1988 winner
• 1990 winner
• 1993 tournament canceled
• 1995 winner
• 1997 did not participate
• 2000 3rd place
• 2004 2nd place
• 2008 2nd place
• 2010 winner
• 2012 3rd place
• 2014 3rd place
• 2016 winner
• 2018 winner

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rowland Bowen: Some dates in Indian cricket history ( English ) Wisden. 1967. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
2. ↑ India tour of England, 1932 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
3. ↑ India ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
4. ↑ England tour of India, 1951/52 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
5. ↑ Sri Lanka's crowning glory ( English ) Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
6. ↑ Australia tour of India, 2000/01 ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
7. ↑ The time period refers to the corresponding cricket season in which the first or last game of the time as captain took place
8. ↑ Records / India / Test Matches / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.
9. ↑ Records / India / One-Day Internationals / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.
10. ↑ Records / India / Twenty20 Internationals / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.