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The Royal Indian Cricket Team
Details of its past and present
he Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India.
Governed by the Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of the
International Cricket Council
(ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status.
Current Position of the Team
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team won the 2011 Cricket WorldCup, its second after 1983 . It thus
became only the third team after West Indies
and Australia to have won the World Cup more than once. It is
also the first cricket
team to win world cup on hhoommee ssooiill.. In both Tests and
ODIs, win-loss ratio of recent
years is much higher than that of older periods, when it was a
weaker team. Currently
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the captain in all forms of the game
while Duncan Fletcher is
the coach. Under the leadership of Dhoni, the Indian team has
set a national record for
most back-to-back ODI wins (9 straight wins) and has emerged as
one of the most
formidable teams in international cricket.
Previous History of the Team:
Although cricket was introduced to India by European merchant
sailors in the 18th-century and
the first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in
1972, India's national cricket team did not
play their first Test match until . They became the sixth team
to be granted Test
cricket status. In their first fifty years of international
cricket, India proved weaker than Australia and
England, winning only 35 of the 196 test matches.
The team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s
with the emergence of players
such as Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and the Indian spin
quartetErapalli Prasanna and Srinivas
Venkataraghavan (both off spinners), Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (a
leg spinner), and Bishen Singh Bedi (a
left-arm spinner). Traditionally much stronger at home than
abroad, the Indian team has improved its
overseas form since the start of the 21st century. It won the
Cricket World Cup in 1983 underKAPIL
DEV, was runners-up in 2003 under SOURAVGANGULY, and won the
World Cup a second time in 2011
under MAHENDHAR SINGH DHONI.
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India has also been the Runners-up in 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy,
and the Joint Champions
along with Sri Lanka in 2002 ICC Champions Trophy led by SOURAV
GANGULY in both the instances.
India also won the inaugural World Twenty20 under MAHENDRA SINGH
DHONI in 2007. The current
team contains many of the world's leading players, including
who hold numerous cricketing world records.
Selection for the Indian cricket team occurs through
theBCCI'szonal selection policy,
where each of the five zones is represented with one selector
and one of the members nominated
by BCCI as the Chairman of the Selection Committee. This has
sometimes led to controversy as
to whether these selectors are biased towards their zones.
The current chairman of Selection Committee is Krishnamachari
Srikkanth. Yashpal
Sharma, Narendra Hirwani, Surendra Bhave and Raja Venkat are the
other members of the
selection committee whose terms started in September 2008 with
BCCI holding the rights for a
one-year extension.
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