India national cricket team
The India men's national cricket team represents India in men's international cricket. It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.
| Nickname(s) | Men in Blue | ||||||||||||
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| Association | Board of Control for Cricket in India | ||||||||||||
| Personnel | |||||||||||||
| Captain | Rohit Sharma | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Rahul Dravid | ||||||||||||
| Batting coach | Vikram Rathour | ||||||||||||
| Bowling coach | Paras Mhambrey | ||||||||||||
| Fielding coach | T. Dilip | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Test status acquired | 1931 | ||||||||||||
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| ICC status | Full Member (1926) | ||||||||||||
| ICC region | ACC | ||||||||||||
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| Tests | |||||||||||||
| First Test | v England at Lord's, London; 25–28 June 1932 | ||||||||||||
| Last Test | v England at Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamshala; 7–9 March 2024 | ||||||||||||
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| World Test Championship appearances | 2 (first in 2019–2021) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Runners-up (2019–21, 2021–23) | ||||||||||||
| One Day Internationals | |||||||||||||
| First ODI | v England at Headingley, Leeds; 13 July 1974 | ||||||||||||
| Last ODI | v South Africa at Boland Park, Paarl; 21 December 2023 | ||||||||||||
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| World Cup appearances | 13 (first in 1975) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | ODI Champions (1983,2002,2011,2013) | ||||||||||||
| Twenty20 Internationals | |||||||||||||
| First T20I | v South Africa at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg; 1 December 2006 | ||||||||||||
| Last T20I | v Afghanistan at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore; 17 January 2024 | ||||||||||||
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| T20 World Cup appearances | 8 (first in 2007) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Champions (2007) | ||||||||||||
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| As of 9 March 2024 | |||||||||||||
The team played its first international match on 25 June 1932 in a Test against England at Lord's Cricket Ground in London, becoming the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status. India's first Test victory was in 1952, and success was limited in the team's first fifty years of international cricket, with only 35 wins in 196 Tests. However, they gained strength in the 1970s with the emergence of the Indian spin quartet, and players like Sunil Gavaskar, Gundappa Viswanath, and Kapil Dev. In men's limited-overs cricket, India made its ODI debut against England in 1974 and its T20I debut against South Africa in 2006.
India's men's national cricket team has won five major ICC tournaments, winning the Cricket World Cup twice (1983 and 2011), the ICC T20 World Cup once (2007) and the ICC Champions Trophy twice (2002 and 2013). They have also finished as runners-up in the World Cup twice (2003 and 2023), the T20 World Cup once (2014), the Champions Trophy twice (2000 and 2017) and the ICC World Test Championship finals in the first two editions (2021, 2023). India was the second team (after the West Indies) to win the World Cup, and the first to win the competition on home soil after winning it in 2011.
They have won the Asia Cup eight times, in 1984, 1988, 1990–91, 1995, 2010, 2016, 2018 and 2023; and have finished runners-up three times (1997, 2004, 2008). India also won a gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games. Other achievements include winning the ICC Test Championship Mace five times and the ICC ODI Championship Shield once. As of December 2023, the team is top of the ICC rankings for Tests, ODIs and T20Is. With such success, it is one of the most successful teams in international cricket.