India national cricket team | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-23

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00:02:35 1 History
00:02:44 1.1 Early history
00:03:48 1.2 Test match status
00:07:05 1.3 One-Day cricket and World Cup success
00:10:05 1.4 Late 20th century
00:12:07 1.5 Turn of the millennium
00:16:07 1.6 Success under Dhoni
00:18:58 1.7 Worldwide limited-overs success
00:21:24 1.8 Dominance at home 2016-17 season
00:24:54 2 Governing body
00:26:05 2.1 Selection committee
00:26:47 3 Team colours
00:26:56 3.1 First Class
00:27:39 3.2 Limited Overs
00:31:30 4 Sponsorship
00:32:31 5 International grounds
00:35:10 5.1 List of venues
00:35:22 6 Captains
00:42:03 7 Results and fixtures
00:42:17 8 Personnel
00:42:26 8.1 Squad
00:43:42 8.2 Support staff
00:44:09 9 Tournament history
00:44:18 9.1 ICC Champions Trophy
00:44:28 9.2 Asia Cup
00:44:37 9.3 Other tournaments
00:44:58 10 Individual records
00:48:57 11 Statistics
00:49:07 11.1 Tests
00:49:18 11.2 One-Day Internationals
00:49:30 11.3 Twenty20 Internationals
00:49:47 12 Fan following
00:53:45 13 Indian women's cricket team
00:55:29 14 See also



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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.
Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, the Indian team has improved its overseas form, especially in limited-overs cricket, since the start of the 21st century, winning Test matches in Australia, England and South Africa. It has won the Cricket World Cup twice – in 1983 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev and in 2011 under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. After winning the 2011 World Cup, India became only the third team after West Indies and Australia to have won the World Cup more than once, and the first cricket team to win the World Cup at home. It also won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. It was also the joint champions of 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, along with Sri Lanka.
As of  19 October 2018, India is ranked first in Tests, second in ODIs and second in T20Is by the ICC. Virat Kohli is the current captain of the team across all formats, while the head coach is Ravi Shastri. The Indian cricket team has rivalries with other Test-playing nations, most notably with Pakistan, the political arch-rival of India. However, in recent times, rivalries with nations like Australia, South Africa and England have also gained prominence.