Indian National Cricket Team
India National Cricket Team The India men's national cricket team , also known as Team India or the Men in Blue , 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. India's national cricket team played its first Test match on 25 June 1932 at Lord's , becoming the sixth team to be granted test cricket status. India had to wait until 1952, almost twenty years, for its first Test victory. In its first fifty years of international cricket, India didn't gain much success, winning only 35 of the first 196 Test matches it played. The team, however, gained strength in the 1970s with the emergence of players like Sunil Gavaskar , Gundappa Viswanath , Kapil Dev , and the Indian spin quartet . India has won five major ICC tournaments. The tea