Scribd
Upload
42 views

India and Men in Blue, Is Governed by The

The India national cricket team is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and is a full member of the International Cricket Council. Although cricket was introduced to India in the 18th century, the national team did not play its first Test match until 1932, becoming the sixth team to be granted Test status. India struggled in its first 50 years of international cricket, winning only 35 of its first 196 Test matches and not securing its first victory until 1952. However, the team gained strength in the 1970s with the emergence of players like batsmen Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, all-rounder Kapil Dev, and the Indian spin quartet.

Uploaded by

Vijitashva Acharya
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
42 views

India and Men in Blue, Is Governed by The

The India national cricket team is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and is a full member of the International Cricket Council. Although cricket was introduced to India in the 18th century, the national team did not play its first Test match until 1932, becoming the sixth team to be granted Test status. India struggled in its first 50 years of international cricket, winning only 35 of its first 196 Test matches and not securing its first victory until 1952. However, the team gained strength in the 1970s with the emergence of players like batsmen Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, all-rounder Kapil Dev, and the Indian spin quartet.

Uploaded by

Vijitashva Acharya
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

The India national cricket team, also known as Team

India and Men in Blue, is governed by the Board of Control for


Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a full member of the International
Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI)
and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.
Although cricket was introduced to India by European merchant
sailors in the 18th century, and the first cricket club was established
in Calcutta (currently known as Kolkata) in 1792, India's national
cricket team did not play its first Test match until 25 June 1932
at Lord's, becoming the sixth team to be granted Test cricket
status. In its first fifty years of international cricket, India was one of
the weaker teams, winning only 35 of the first 196 Test matches it
played. From 1932 India had to wait until 1952, almost 20 years for
its first Test victory. The team, however, gained strength in the
1970s with the emergence of players such as batsmen Sunil
Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, all-rounder Kapil Dev and
the Indian spin quartet of Erapalli Prasanna, Srinivas
Venkataraghavan, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and Bishen Singh
Bedi

You might also like