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Australia won the five-match series 4вЂ“0, with Bradman tormenting the Indian bowling in his final Australian summer. It was also the first Test series India played which was not against England. The team's first series as an independent country was in late 1947 against Sir Donald Bradman's Invincibles (a name given to the Australia national cricket team of that time). In the early 1940s, India didn't play any Test cricket due to the Second World War. The Indian team continued to improve throughout the 1930s and '40s but did not achieve an international victory during this period. In 1933, the first Test series in India was played between India and England with matches in Bombay, Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Madras (now Chennai). The team was not strong in their batting at this point and went on to lose by 158 runs. The one-off Test match between the two sides was played at Lord's in London. India was invited into The Imperial Cricket Council in 1926, and made their debut as a Test playing nation in England in 1932, led by CK Nayudu, who was considered as the best Indian batsman at the time. In 1911, an Indian team went on their first official tour of the British Isles, but only played English county teams and not the England cricket team. Some of these, such as Ranjitsinhji and KS Duleepsinhji were greatly appreciated by the British and their names went on to be used for the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy вЂ“ two major first-class tournaments in India. In the early 1900s, some Indians went on to play for the England cricket team. By 1912, the Parsis, Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims of Bombay played a quadrangular tournament with the Europeans every year. After slow beginnings, the Europeans eventually invited the Parsis to play a match in 1877. In 1848, the Parsi community in Bombay formed the Oriental Cricket Club, the first cricket club to be established by Indians. The British brought cricket to India in the early 1700s, with the first cricket match played in 1721. However, in recent times, rivalries with nations like Australia, England and Bangladesh and have also gained prominence. The Indian cricket team has rivalries with other Test-playing nations, most notably with Pakistan, the political arch-rival of India. Virat Kohli is the current captain of the team across all formats, while former Test captain Anil Kumble is the head coach. It was also the joint champions of 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, along with Sri Lanka.ДЄs of 7th March 2017, India is ranked first in Tests, fourth in ODIs and second in T20Is by the ICC. It has won the 2007 ICC World Twenty ICC Champions Trophy, under the captaincy of 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, and the first cricket team to win the World Cup at home. It has won the Cricket World Cup twice вЂ“ in 1983 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev and in 2011 under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. 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.

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. From 1932 India had to wait until 1952, almost 20 years for its first Test victory. 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. ContentsДЄlthough 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.

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Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status. The Indian cricket team, also known as Team India and Men in Blue, represents India in international cricket.

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