The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Ruled by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Check & Day International (ODI) status.
The Indian cricket team is currently ranked second by the ICC in Tests & second in ODIs. On two April 2011, the team won the 2011 Cricket World Cup, its second after 1983. It thus became only the third team after West Indies & Australia to have won the World Cup over one time. As of October 2010, the Indian team has played 445 Check matches, winning 108, losing 138 & drawing 198 of its games, with one match ending in a tie. India has a comparatively better record in Day Internationals, winning 52% of matches played. In both cases, win-loss ratio of recent years is much higher than that of older periods, when it was a weaker team. Currently Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the captain in all forms of the game while Duncan Fletcher is the coach. Under the leadership of Dhoni, the Indian team has set a national record for most back-to-back ODI wins (9 straight wins) & has emerged as of the most formidable teams in international cricket.
Although cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th-century and the first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in 1792, India's national cricket team did not play their first Check match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's. They became the sixth team to be granted Check cricket status. In their first fifty years of international cricket, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 check matches. The team, however, gained strength near the finish of the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet�Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (both off spinners), Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (a leg spinner), and Bishen Singh Bedi (a left-arm spinner). Historically much stronger at home than abroad, the Indian team has improved its abroad form since the beginning of the 21st century. It won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 under Kapil Dev, was runners-up in 2003 under Sourav Ganguly, and won the World Cup a second time in 2011 under MS Dhoni. India have also been the Runners-up in 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, and the Joint Champions along with Sri Lanka in 2002 ICC Champions Trophy led by Sourav Ganguly in both the instances. India also won the inaugural World Twenty20 under Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2007. The current team contains plenty of of the world's leading players, including Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag who hold numerous cricketing world records.
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