Know The History Of Indian Cricket

It is the enticing nature of the game, which has made cricket a household name across the globe, and there are no signs of its popularity waning with time. Tournaments like world cup and T-20 are acquiring a marvellous reaction. India is one of the most admired players squad in world cricket. Indian cricket team has its own charm and renowned players like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Sunil Gavaskar have added several feathers to its cap.

Indian cricket is the great combination of national and regional cricket squads. Every last state in India has its own regional cricket squad and all these squads participate in many tournaments like Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy. players who play the best in these regional cricket teams move up to play international games. The highest determining authority of cricket in India is a body called The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), who are not only the deciding authority of the national team but also handle issues like sponsorship and individual roles of players who take part in the national squad for cricket. Apart from the BCCI, each region has its own cricket board that conducts and controls state level teams and also prepares good players for future responsibilities. Unnecessary to mention that the region level governments have a major role to play in building the national teram and of late magnificent and youthful participants like Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh and Pathan have entered the scene with the assistance of state level authorities.

Indian cricket team got approval as test team in 1932 that was a subject of great honor for every Indian and in the same year, the team played its initial test cricket match against England at Lords and really demonstrated their potential as a good test team. Since that time Indian players have never looked back as they moved on making and bettering a number of cricket records. In addition to that, India won the cricket world cup in 1983 and T-20 world cup few months back this year with its initial test victory against England at Madras in 1952. Later, that same year, the team won initial test series, which was against Pakistan. This was 1 of the most memorable moments for the country and cricket history and the team kept on improving their performance through the decade.

With the start of 1-day international cricket since 1971, the game has acquired a brand new order of magnitude. Initially India was not very strong in ‘one Day Internationals’, which ended in a progressive number of lost games, therefore they did not manage to qualify for the second round in the first two cricket world cups. Nevertheless, each and every lover of the Indian cricket team knows that the squad is truly unstoppable. Perhaps it is the wholesome wishes of its supporters that made the Indian squad win the world cup in 1983 and it gave the nation much to rejoice.