It is the enticing nature of the game, which has made cricket a household name across the globe, and there are no indications of its popularity waning with time. Tournaments like world cup and T-20 are acquiring a fabulous response. In world cricket, one of the most venerated teams is from India. Indian cricket has its own flavor in world cricket since legendary participants like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Sunil Gavaskar are there to make it more wonderful.

Indian cricket is the great combination of national and regional cricket squads. Every last state in India has its own regional cricket squad and all these teams take part in many tournaments like Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy. To be chosen for the international level games, players from the regional cricket squads have to qualify and prove to be the best at the regional level. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the biggest cricket authority for India - it bears the obligation of selection of national team and also undertake all other decisions involving sponsorship and role determination of every player in national cricket team. Over and above the BCCI, each region also has a cricket controlling authority that carries the responsibility of training and grooming participants for future roles. It is evident that the state level cricket authorities are responsible in building and contributing towards the national team and of late several headline-making participants have came out like Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh and Pathan have been able to showcase their talent only with the backup of region level governments.

Indian cricket squad got approval as test team in 1932 that was a subject of great honor for every Indian and in the same year, the team played its first test cricket match against England at Lords and really proved their potential as a good test team. Since that time Indian players have never looked back as they moved on making and breaking a number of cricket records. Over and above this, India won the cricket world cup in 1983 and the T-20 world cup also recently, after its glorious victory in test cricket against England played in Madras in 1952. Afterwards, that same year, the squad won initial test series, which was against Pakistan. This was truly 1 of the most unforgettable moments for the country and cricket history and the team kept on developing their performance through the ten years.

With the start of one-day international cricket since 1971, the game has found a brand new order of magnitude. Initially India was not very strong in ‘1 Day Internationals’, which resulted in a progressive number of lost matches, therefore they did not manage to qualify for the second round in the first two cricket world cups. Still, each and every lover of the Indian cricket team knows that the team is truly unstoppable. Perhaps it is the wholesome wishes of its supporters that made the Indian squad win the world cup in 1983 and it gave the nation much to jubilate.