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Cricket World Cup
2007
History - Facts - Teams - Winners
India National Cricket team
- The Indian cricket team is currently the highest paid national sports team in the world (in terms of sponsorship)
- The first Test match was on June 25, 1932 at Lord's, becoming the sixth Test playing team
- The team gained strength near the end of the 50-year period with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet.
- The team won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and was runners-up in 2003.
- The current team contains many of the world's top players including: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumble
- As of November 2006, the team is ranked fourth in the ICC Test Championship and in sixth place in the ICC ODI Championship
- For the 2007 Cricket World Cup tournament the team was ousted in the group stages following an dreadful performance
Important facts
- In 1952 India recorded their first Test victory against England at Madras and later in the year won their first Test series (against Pakistan)
- In 1989 and 1990 two new players were added to the National team, they were: Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble
- With the arrival of John Wright as the new team Coach in the year 2000, the Indian team underwent major improvements
- The beginning of 2007 had seen a renewal in the Indian team's ODI fortunes before the 2007 Cricket World Cup
Current Squad
| # |
Player |
Domestic team |
# |
Player |
Domestic team |
| Twenty20 & ODI Captain & Wicket-keeper |
Wicket-keepers |
| 1 |
Dinesh Karthik |
Tamil Nadu |
7 |
Mahendra Singh Dhoni |
Jharkhand |
All rounders |
| Test Captain & Spin Bowler |
63 |
Irfan Pathan |
Baroda |
* |
Anil Kumble |
Karnataka |
27 |
Yusuf Pathan |
Baroda |
| Opening batsmen |
Seamers |
| 10 |
Sachin Tendulkar |
Mumbai |
68 |
Ajit Agarkar |
Mumbai |
| 21 |
Sourav Ganguly |
Bengal |
23 |
Joginder Sharma |
Haryana |
| 2 |
Virender Sehwag |
Delhi |
9 |
R. P. Singh |
Uttar Pradesh |
| 14 |
Wasim Jaffer |
Mumbai |
58 |
Shanthakumaran Sreesanth |
Kerala |
| 5 |
Gautam Gambhir |
Delhi |
48 |
Munaf Patel |
Maharashtra |
| 77 |
Robin Uthappa |
Karnataka |
34 |
Zaheer Khan |
Mumbai |
| Specialist middle-order batsmen |
N/A |
Ishant Sharma |
Delhi |
| 19 |
Rahul Dravid |
Karnataka |
N/A |
Praveen Kumar |
Uttar Pradesh |
| 22 |
V. V. S. Laxman |
Hyderabad |
Spin Bowlers |
| - |
Suresh Raina |
Uttar Pradesh |
35 |
Harbhajan Singh |
Punjab |
| 12 |
Yuvraj Singh |
Punjab |
32 |
Ramesh Powar |
Mumbai |
| 45 |
Rohit Sharma |
Mumbai |
11 |
Piyush Chawla |
Uttar Pradesh |
| - |
Manoj Tiwary |
Bengal |
25 |
Murali Kartik |
Railways |
*Test Only
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