The Indian cricket team is an international cricket team representing India. Cricket of India has millions of fans across the country. It is one game that unites the whole of India. The Indian Cricket Team is currently the highest paid sports team in the world. It is governed by the, Board of Control for Cricket in Idia, the cricket governing body in India.


India played its first Test in 1932. The first match was played against England at the Lords. India lost the Test. The Indian Cricket Team had to wait till 1952 to register its first win and the feat came when they defeated England at Madras. In the 1960s, the team really improved their game and began to emerge as one of the stronger sides in cricket. By the 1970s, the team had created a strong position for themselves in world cricket. The 1980s was a wonderful decade for India. Not only did they win the 1983World Cup, they also won the Asia Cup twice. In the recent past India have performed very well and continue to assert their position as a strong opponent. They reached the finals of the 2003 World Cup and finished runners up.

It might have taken the Indian Cricket Team 20 years to register their first international win, but ever since, India have just kept improving their game over the years. India is the sixth nation to have gotten Test status. The team has acquired a reputation of being invincible at home and quite weak while playing away matches. However this pattern seemed to change in the last five years or so when the team started to win Tests abroad and even defeated strong teams like Australia and West Indies in their respective countries. India have also played well in the ODIs and had a very successful World Cup in 2003 where they overcame every challenge to cruise into the final, only failing to overcome the final hurdle against Australia. The team has not done very well in the recent series against the West Indies, and were unlucky to miss out on a series against Sri Lanka due to bad weather. With the World Cup coming up, the team will surely pull their socks up and perform to their full potential.

Indian Cricket Team is one of the leading sides in world cricket today. With some of the best players of the world like Sachin Tendulkar and M S Dhoni in the squad, India are one of the better teams playing the game.In 2007 world cup team only managed to beat Bermuda in group matches so went home early.

Under pressure to win the competition for the first time since 1983 on home soil . Have a squad capable of doing that with powerful batting line up ,decent spinners and skilfull swing bowlers.The Indian team for 2011 world cup might be a mixture of technically sound experienced players and enthusiastic youngsters, who need to technically work more .All eyes will be on Sachin Tendulkar and India will be a major threat to Australia if they can hold their nerve .The team is expected to perform well in 2011 world cup.