India national cricket team
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| Test status acquired | 1932 | |||||||||
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| Test Captain | Virat Kohli | |||||||||
| ODI and T20I Captain | Mahendra Singh Dhoni | |||||||||
| Coach | Anil Kumble | |||||||||
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| Test Matches | ||||||||||
| First Test | v  England at Lord's, London, 25–28 June 1932 |
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| Last Test | v  New Zealand at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore 8–11 October 2016 |
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| World Cup Appearances | 11 (first in 1975) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (1983,2011) | |||||||||
| T20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| World Twenty20 Appearances | 6 (first in 2007) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (2007) | |||||||||
| As of 3 October 2016 | ||||||||||
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 namely 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,[3] 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 11 October 2016, India is ranked first in Tests, fourth in ODIs and second in Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) by the ICC.[4] Virat Kohli is the current captain of the team in Tests while Dhoni is the ODI and T20I captain. 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, England and South Africa have also gained prominence
