India National Cricket Team

India National Cricket Team:

Team	India
Nickname	Men in Blue
Association	BCCI
Test Captain	Shubman Gill
ODI Captain	Rohit Sharma
T20I Captain	Suryakumar Yadav
Head coach	Gautam Gambhir
First Test	vs England at Lord’s, 25–28 June 1932
First ODI	vs England at Headingley, 13 July 1974
First T20I	vs South Africa at Wanderers Stadium, 1 December 2006
World Cup wins	2 (1983, 2011)
T20 World Cup wins	2 (2007, 2024)

The India men’s national cricket team represents India in international cricket. The team is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and is a full member nation of the International Cricket Council (ICC). As a result, India have the status to play in all the three formats of the game.

India National Cricket Team – Brief history:

• Cricket was introduced in India for the first time in early 1700s by the British. The first cricket match in India was played in 1721.
• In 1848, the first cricket club was established by Indians. The Parsi community of Mumbai established the Oriental Cricket Club.
• In early 1900s, some Indians such as Ranjitsinhji and Duleepsinhji represented England cricket teams. Two of India’s premier domestic tournaments – Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy – are named after them.
• The ICC invited India to become a member in 1926. Six years later, India played their first Test against England at Lord’s under the captaincy of C.K. Nayudu. India suffered a 158-run loss in that match. In 1933, India hosted their first Test series against England.
• India did not play any Test matches in early 1940s due to the second world war.
• After Independence, India’s first Test series was against Don Bradman’s Australia in late 1947.
• India won their first Test match in Madras in 1952 with England as the opponents. In the same year, India also won their first Test series, which was against Pakistan.
• In 1967-68, India won their first Test series away from home, against New Zealand.
• India played their first ODI match in 1974 under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar.
• After failing to qualify for the knockout stage in the first two editions of the World Cup, India went on to win the tournament in 1983 by beating two-time defending champions West Indies.
• While India struggled to do well consistently in late 80 and 90s, they have been a force to reckon with this century. India have been one of the most dominant teams across formats in the last two decades or so.

India National Cricket Team – Governing body:

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) looks after the Indian cricket team as well as the domestic teams. The board came into operation way back in 1929. It is one of the wealthiest sporting organizations in the world. Not only does it look after the team but also manages the Indian team’s sponsorships, its future tours and team selection.

India National Cricket Team – Captains:

Here is a list of captains who have led India in all the three formats of the game so far:

Test captains:

C. K. Nayudu

Maharajkumar of Vizianagram

Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi

Lala Amarnath

Vijay Hazare

Vinoo Mankad

Ghulam Ahmed

Polly Umrigar

Hemu Adhikari

Datta Gaekwad

Pankaj Roy

Gulabrai Ramchand

Nari Contractor

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

Chandu Borde

Ajit Wadekar

Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan

Sunil Gavaskar

Bishan Singh Bedi

Gundappa Viswanath

Kapil Dev

Dilip Vengsarkar

Ravi Shastri

Krishnamachari Srikkanth

Mohammad Azharuddin

Sachin Tendulkar

Sourav Ganguly

Rahul Dravid

Virender Sehwag

Anil Kumble

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Virat Kohli

Ajinkya Rahane

KL Rahul

Rohit Sharma

Jasprit Bumrah

Shubman Gill

ODI captains:

Ajit Wadekar

Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan

Bishan Singh Bedi

Syed Gaudwilkar

Gundappa Viswanath

Kapil Dev

Syed Kirmani

Mohinder Amarnath

Ravi Shastri

Dilip Vengsarkar

Krishnamachari Srikkanth

Mohammad Azharuddin

Sachin Tendulkar

Ajay Jadeja

Sourav Ganguly

Rahul Dravid

Anil Kumble

Virender Sehwag

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Suresh Raina

Gautam Gambhir

Virat Kohli

Ajinkya Rahane

Rohit Sharma

Shikhar Dhawan

KL Rahul

Hardik Pandya

T20I captains:

Virender Sehwag

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Suresh Raina

Ajinkya Rahane

Virat Kohli

Rohit Sharma

Shikhar Dhawan

Rishabh Pant

Hardik Pandya

KL Rahul

Jasprit Bumrah

Ruturaj Gaikwad

Suryakumar Yadav

Shubman Gill

India National Cricket Team – Current players:

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Hardik Pandya, Mohammed Shami, Rishabh Pant, Suryakumar Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Sanju Samson, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Rajat Patidar, Dhruv Jurel, Sarfaraz Khan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ishan Kishan, Abhishek Sharma, Akash Deep, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana.

India National Cricket Team – Coaching staff:

Position	Name
Head coach	Gautam Gambhir
Assistant coach	Ryan Ten Doeschate
Bowling coach	Morné Morkel
Fielding coach	T Dilip
Strength and Conditioning coach	Adrian le Roux

India National Cricket Team – Jersey:

Team colours:

Test match:

The first-class teams wear white jersey as the norm across the world. In addition to their whites, Indian fielders wear a dark blue cap or a white wide-brimmed sun hat, with the BCCI logo in the center. Helmets are also dark blue.

Limited Overs:

Unlike Tests, India national cricket team wear the blue-colored jersey in T20Is and ODIs.  Dream11 is currently the official team sponsor. Even since cricket welcomed colored jerseys, Team India has chosen blue as their primary color. The secondary color has changed over the years while yellow and orange have been dominant.

India National Cricket Team – Tournament history:

ODI World Cup:

India have played in all the editions of the World Cup so far. They have won the tournament twice so far in addition to finishing runners-up on two different occasions.

Year	Round
1975	Group Stage
1979	Group Stage
1983	Champions
1987	Semi Finals
1992	Group Stage
1996	Semi Finals
1999	Super Six
2003	Runners Up
2007	Group Stage
2011	Champions
2015	Semi Finals
2019	Semi Finals
2023	Runners Up

Champions Trophy:

India have also played in each edition of the Champions Trophy so far and are the most successful side in the history of the competition. The Men in Blue have won the tournament thrice so far.

Year	Round
1998	Semi Finals
2000	Runners Up
2002	Champions
2004	Group Stage
2006	Group Stage
2009	Group Stage
2013	Champions
2017	Runners Up
2025	Champions

Asia Cup:

India are also the most successful side in the Asia Cup history. They have won the continental championship eight times.

Year	Round
1984	Champions
1986	Boycotted
1988	Champions
1990–91	Champions
1995	Champions
1997	Runners Up
2000	First Round
2004	Runners Up
2008	Runners Up
2010	Champions
2012	First Round
2014	First Round
2016	Champions
2018	Champions
2022	Super Fours
2023	Champions

T20 World Cup:

Along with West Indies and England, India are the only team to win the T20 World Cup twice.

Year	Round
2007	Champions
2009	Super 8s
2010	Super 8s
2012	Super 8s
2014	Runners-up
2016	Semi-finals
2021	Super 12s
2022	Semi-finals
2024	Champions

World Test Championship:

India are yet to win the WTC. They played the final of the first two editions but finished runners-up on both occasions.

Season	Position
2019–2021	Runners Up
2021–2023	Runners Up
2023–2025	Third Place

India National Cricket Team – Stadium list:

The cricket-obsessed nation boasts of several world-famous cricket stadiums. Mostly the state associations look after the ground.  The Bombay Gymkhana was the first ground in India to host a full-scale cricket match featuring an Indian cricket team. The game was between the Parsis and Europeans wayback in 1877.

The Bombay Gymkhana also hosted the first-ever Test match in India in 1933 and it was the only Test it ever hosted. The second and third Tests in the 1933 series were hosted at Eden Gardens in Kolkata and Chepauk in Madras (now Chennai).

After Independence, Delhi’s Feroz Shah Kotla hosted the first Test in India when the host draw against the West Indies in 1948, just a year after the independence. So far, as many as 21 stadiums in India have hosted at least one Test. In recent times, the BCCI has made a whole-hearted effort to take the game to the unchartered territories as they have set up stadiums in places like Indore, Chandigarh Mohali, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Rajkot, Ranchi, Pune, Dharamshala and Nagpur.

So far, Kolkata’s Eden Gardens, which is the second-biggest cricket stadium in the world, has hosted the most number of Tests in India. The stadium was established in 1864 and has witnessed several iconic and controversial games.  Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi is another historical stadium which was established in 1883. This was the very stadium where Anil Kumble had taken a record all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan.

Here is a list showing the list of stadiums which have hosted at least one international game so far:

Stadium	Place	First match
Eden Gardens	Kolkata	1934
Feroz Shah Kotla Ground	Delhi	1948
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium	Chepauk, Chennai	1934
Wankhede Stadium	Mumbai	1975
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bangalore	1974
Green Park	Kanpur	1952
Brabourne Stadium	Mumbai	1948
Punjab Cricket Association Stadium	Mohali	1994
Sardar Patel Stadium (Gujarat)	Motera, Ahmedabad	1983
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium	Nagpur	2008
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium	Hyderabad	2010
Barabati Stadium	Cuttack	1987
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium	Rajkot	2016
Holkar Stadium	Indore	2016
ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium	Visakhapatnam	2016
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium	Pune	2017
JSCA International Stadium Complex	Ranchi	2017
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium	Dharamshala	2017
Sawai Mansingh Stadium	Jaipur	1987
Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground	Greater Noida	2017
Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium	Guwahati	2017
Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Dehradun	Dehradun	2018
Greenfield International Stadium	Thiruvananthapuram	2017
Ekana International Cricket Stadium	Lucknow	2018
Lalabhai Contractor Stadium	Surat	2019
Veer Narayan Singh Stadium	Raipur	2023
Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Stadium	Gwalior	2024
Baroda Cricket Association Stadium	Vadodara	2024

Here is another list showing the stadiums which used to host international games:

Stadium	Place	First used
Nehru Stadium	Chennai	1956
Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground	Nagpur	1969
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium	Hyderabad	1955
Bombay Gymkhana	Mumbai	1933
Gandhi Stadium	Jalandhar	1983
K. D. Singh Babu Stadium	Lucknow	1994
Sector 16 Stadium	Chandigarh	1990
University Ground	Lucknow	1952
Barkatullah Khan Stadium	Jodhpur	2000
Captain Roop Singh Stadium	Gwalior	1988
Gandhi Sports Complex Ground	Amritsar	1982
Indira Gandhi Stadium	Vijayawada	2002
Indira Priyadarshini Stadium	Visakhapatnam	1988
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	New Delhi	1984
Keenan Stadium	Jamshedpur	1983
Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground	Rajkot	1989
Moin-ul-Haq Stadium	Patna	1993
Moti Bagh Stadium	Vadodara	1983
Nahar Singh Stadium	Faridabad	1988
Nehru Stadium	Guwahati	1983
Nehru Stadium	Indore	1983
Nehru Stadium	Kochi	1998
Nehru Stadium	Margao	1989
Nehru Stadium	Pune	1984
IPCL Sports Complex Ground	Vadodara	1994
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	Ahmedabad	1981
Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium	Srinagar	1983
University Stadium	Thiruvananthapuram	1984