History

The British brought candid to India in the aboriginal 1700s, with the aboriginal candid bout played in 1721.[12] In 1848, the Parsi association in Bombay formed the Oriental Candid Club, the aboriginal candid club to be accustomed by Indians. Afterwards apathetic beginnings, the Europeans eventually arrive the Parsis to play a bout in 1877.[13] By 1912, the Parsis,Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims of Bombay played a quadrangular clash with the Europeans every year.[13] In the aboriginal 1900s, some Indians went on to play for the English candid team. Some of these, such as Ranjitsinhji and KS Duleepsinhji were abundantly accepted by the British and their names went on to be acclimated for the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy- two above aboriginal chic tournaments in India. In 1911, an Indian aggregation went on their aboriginal official bout of England, but alone played English canton teams and not the English candid team.[14] India was arrive into The Imperial Candid Council in 1926 and fabricated its admission as a Test-cricket-playing-nation in 1932 led by CK Nayudu.[15] The bout was accustomed Analysis cachet admitting getting alone 3 canicule in length. The aggregation was not able in its batting at this point and went on to lose by 158 runs.[16] The Indian aggregation connected to advance throughout the 1930s and '40s but did not accomplish an all-embracing achievement during this period. The team's aboriginal alternation as an absolute country was in 1948 adjoin Sir Donald Bradman's Invincibles (a name accustomed to the Australian candid aggregation of that time). Australia won the five-match series, 4-0.[17]

India recorded their aboriginal Analysis achievement adjoin England at Madras (now Chennai) in 1952.[18] Afterwards in the year, they won their aboriginal Analysis series, which was adjoin Pakistan. They connected their advance throughout the aboriginal 1950s with a alternation win adjoin New Zealand in 1956. However, they did not win afresh in the butt of the decade and absent abominably to able Australian and English sides. The next decade saw India's acceptability advance as a aggregation with a able almanac at home. Although they alone won two alternation (both adjoin New Zealand), they managed to draw home alternation adjoin Pakistan, England and Australia.

The key to India's bowling in the 1970s were the Indian circuit quartet - Bishen Bedi, E.A.S. Prasanna, BS Chandrasekhar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan. This aeon aswell saw the actualization of two of India's best anytime batsmen, Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath. Indian pitches accept had addiction to abutment circuit and the circuit quartet exploited this to actualize collapses in opposing batting lineups. These players were amenable for the back-to-back alternation wins in 1971 in the West Indies and in England, beneath the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar. Gavaskar denticulate 774 runs in the West Indian alternation while Dilip Sardesai's 112 played a big allotment in their one Analysis win.

A blueprint assuming India's Analysis bout after-effects adjoin all Analysis bout teams from 1932 to September 2006

The appearance of One-Day All-embracing candid in 1971 created a new ambit in the candid world. However, India was not appreciably able in ODIs at this point and batsmen such as the captain Gavaskar were accepted for their defence-based approaches to batting. India began as a anemic aggregation in ODIs and did not administer to authorize for the additional annular in the aboriginal two editions of the Candid Apple Cup. Gavaskar abundantly blocked his way to 36 not out off 174 assurance adjoin England in the aboriginal Apple Cup in 1975, India denticulate just 132 for 3 and absent by 202 runs.

In contrast, India fielded a able aggregation in Analysis matches and were decidedly able at home area their aggregate of beautiful batsman and artful spinners area apparent at their best. India set a afresh analysis almanac in the third Analysis adjoin the West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1976 if they chased 403 to win acknowledgment to 112 from Vishwanath. This West Indian defeat is advised to be a watershed in the history of their candid because it led to captain Clive Lloyd dispensing with circuit altogether and relying absolutely on a four man clip attack. In November 1976 the aggregation accustomed accession almanac by scoring 524 for 9 declared adjoin New Zealand at Kanpur afterwards an alone scoring a century. There were six fifties, the accomplished getting 70 by Mohinder Amarnath. The innings was the eighth instance in Analysis candid area all eleven batsmen accomplished bifold figures.

During the 1980s, India developed a added advance absent batting agency with achievement makers such as the wristy Mohammed Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar and all-rounder Ravi Shastri arresting during this time. India won the Candid Apple Cup in 1983, acquisition the afresh favourites West Indies in the final, attributable to a able bowling performance. In animosity of this the aggregation performed ailing in the Analysis arena, including 28 afterwards Analysis matches afterwards a victory. In 1984, India won the Asia Cup and in 1985, won the Apple Championship of Candid in Australia. Apart from this, India remained a actual anemic aggregation alfresco the Indian subcontinent. India's Analysis alternation achievement in 1986 adjoin England remained the endure Analysis alternation win by India alfresco the subcontinent for the next 19 years. The 1987 Candid Apple Cup was captivated in India. The 1980s saw Gavaskar and Kapil Dev (India's best all bastard to this date) at the acme of their careers. Gavaskar fabricated a Analysis almanac 34 centuries as he became the aboriginal man to ability the 10,000 run mark. Kapil Dev afterwards became the accomplished wicket bacteria in Analysis candid with 434 wickets. The aeon was aswell apparent by an ambiguous leadership, with Gavaskar and Kapil exchanging the captaincy several times.

With 619 wickets, Anil Kumble is the world's third accomplished wicket bacteria in Tests and India's accomplished Analysis and ODI wicket bacteria .[19]

The accession of Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble to the civic ancillary in 1989 and 1990 added bigger the team. The afterward year, Javagal Srinath, India's fastest bowler aback Amar Singh fabricated his debut. Admitting this, during the 1990s, India did not win any of its 33 Tests alfresco the subcontinent while it won 17 out of its 30 Tests at home. Afterwards getting alone by neighbours Sri Lanka on home clay at the 1996 Candid Apple Cup, the aggregation underwent a year of change as Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, afterwards to be become captains of the team, fabricated their admission in the aforementioned Analysis at Lord's. Tendulkar replaced Azharuddin as captain in backward 1996, but afterwards a claimed and aggregation anatomy slump, Tendulkar alone the captaincy and Azharuddin was reinstalled at the alpha of 1998. With the captaincy accountability removed, Tendulkar was the world's arch run-scorer in both Tests and ODIs, as India enjoyed a home Analysis alternation win over Australia, the best ranked aggregation in the world. Afterwards declining to ability the semifinals at the 1999 Candid Apple Cup, Tendulkar was afresh fabricated captain, and had accession poor run, accident 3-0 on a bout of Australia and afresh 2-0 at home to South Africa. Tendulkar resigned, vowing never to captain the aggregation again, with Sourav Ganguly appointed the new captain. The aggregation was added damaged in 2000 if above captain Azharuddin and adolescent batsman Ajay Jadeja were active in a match-fixing aspersion and accustomed activity bans.

Since 2000, the Indian aggregation underwent above improvements with the arrangement of John Wright as India's aboriginal anytime adopted coach. India maintained their best home almanac adjoin Australia in Analysis alternation afterwards acquisition them in 2001. The alternation was acclaimed for the Kolkata Analysis match, in which India became alone the third aggregation in the history of Analysis candid to win a Analysis bout afterwards afterward on. Australian captain Steve Waugh labelled India as the "Final Frontier" as a aftereffect of his side's disability to win a Analysis alternation in India.[20] Achievement in 2001 adjoin the Australians apparent the alpha of a dream run for India beneath their captain Sourav Ganguly, acceptable Analysis matches in Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, West Indies and England. The England alternation is aswell accepted for India's accomplished ODI run-chase of 325 runs at Lord's which came in the Natwest ODI Alternation final adjoin England. In the aforementioned year, India were collective winners of the ICC Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka, and afresh went to the 2003 Candid Apple Cup in South Africa area they accomplished the final alone to be baffled by Australia. The 2003-2004 division aswell saw India play out a Analysis alternation in Australia area they drew 1-1 with apple champions, and afresh win a Analysis and ODI alternation in Pakistan.

The Indian candid aggregation in activity in the Wankhede Stadium

At the end of the 2004 season, India suffered from abridgement of anatomy and exercise from its earlier players. A defeat in a afterward home Analysis alternation adjoin Australia was followed by an ODI home alternation defeat adjoin Pakistan followed by a Analysis alternation levelled 1-1. Greg Chappell took over from John Wright as the new drillmaster of the Indian candid aggregation afterward the series, and his methods accepted to be arguable during the alpha of his tenure. The astriction resulted in a fallout amid Chappell and Ganguly, consistent in Rahul Dravid getting fabricated captain. This triggered a awakening in the team's fortunes, afterward the actualization of players like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, and the advancing of age of players like Irfan Pathan and Yuvraj Singh. A assault home alternation achievement over Sri Lanka in 2005 and a akin alternation with South Africa put India at 2nd abode in the ICC ODI rankings. This was followed by a acceptable ODI alternation win in Pakistan in aboriginal 2006 afterward a accident in the Analysis series, which gave India the apple almanac of 17 alternating ODI victories while batting second.[21] Towards the average of 2006 however, a 4-1 alternation accident in the West Indies gave acceleration to a slump in India's ODI form, while they accomplished a 1-0 achievement in the Analysis alternation that followed, giving them their aboriginal Analysis alternation achievement in the Caribbean aback 1971. India's ODI form, however, angled added with a black achievement in the 2006 Champions Trophy and a assault in the ODI alternation in South Africa. This was followed yet afresh by an antecedent acceptable achievement in the Tests, giving India its aboriginal Analysis bout win in South Africa, although they went on to lose the alternation 2-1. This Analysis alternation was apparent by Ganguly's improvement to the Indian team.[22]

The alpha of 2007 had apparent a awakening in the Indian team's ODI fortunes afore the 2007 Candid Apple Cup. Alternation victories adjoin the West Indies and Sri Lanka, apparent by the improvement of Ganguly, and able anatomy by Tendulkar, and the actualization of adolescent advancing players like Robin Uthappa saw abounding pundits to tip India as a absolute adventitious to do able-bodied at the 2007 Candid Apple Cup. However, defeats to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka saw India abort to ability the final eight. India's acceptable strengths accept consistently been its agency of circuit bowlers and batsmen.[23] Recently, it has a actual able batting calendar with Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag all getting called to play for the ICC Apple XI in the 2005 "SuperTest" adjoin Australia. In antecedent times, India was different in that it was the alone country to consistently acreage three spinners in one team, admitting one is the norm, and of the fifteen players to accept taken added than 100 wickets, alone four were clip bowlers from the endure 20 years.[24] About in contempo years, Indian clip bowling has improved, with the arising talents of Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Rudra Pratap Singh, Munaf Patel and Ishant Sharma abounding added arena in the civic team.

In December 2006, it played and won its aboriginal anytime Twenty20 all-embracing in South Africa, acceptable the a lot of contempo Analysis aggregation to play Twenty20 cricket. Afterwards acceptable the Analysis alternation adjoin England in August 2007, Rahul Dravid stepped down as the captain of the aggregation afterward which Mahendra Singh Dhoni was fabricated the captain of the Twenty20 and ODI team. In September 2007, it won the aboriginal anytime Twenty20 Apple Cup captivated in South Africa, assault Pakistan by 5 runs in a blood-tingling final. Afresh they toured Australia with a arguable alternation that they absent 2-1 in analysis but appear aback for a blanch final adjoin them.