Claim: MS Dhoni played for India in the 2011 World Cup.

The Indian cricket team , also known as Team India and Men in Blue , represents India in international cricket . Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India -LRB- BCCI -RRB- , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council -LRB- ICC -RRB- with Test , One Day International -LRB- ODI -RRB- and Twenty20 International -LRB- T20I -RRB- status .   Although cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th century , and the first cricket club was established in Calcutta 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 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 has won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and 2013 ICC Champions Trophy , under the captaincy of Dhoni . It was also the joint champions of 2002 ICC Champions Trophy , along with Sri Lanka .   As of 20 May 2017 , India is ranked first in Tests , third in ODIs and fourth in T20Is by the ICC . Virat Kohli is the current captain of the team across all formats , while former Test captain Anil Kumble is the head coach . 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 and England have also gained prominence .