Origin of Cricket in India

The Indian men's National team of cricket which is also known as Team India and Men in Blue, and All-Blues is overall governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India short formed as BCCI, and is also a Full Member of the ICC i.e. International Cricket Council with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) statuses.
Although cricket was earlier introduced in India by some European merchant sailors in the midst of 18th century, and also the first cricket club was at that time got established in Calcutta that is currently known as Kolkata in 1792, India's national cricket team unfortunately not played its first Test match until the day of 25th June, 1932 came at Lord's, becoming the no. sixth team to be granted status of Test cricket.

In its first ever fifty years of being in international cricket, India as team was one of the weaker teams and was amongst last in the line with winning only 35 of the first total of 196 Test matches it played that time. From year 1932 India firstly had to wait until year 1952 that is almost 20 years for its first ever Test victory. The team, however after that gained strength in the early 1970s with the emergence of talented players such as batsmen Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, and not to forget all-rounder Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet of Erapalli Prasanna, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Srinivas Venkataraghavan, and Bishen Singh Bedi.

By: Prerana Sharma
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