History of Indian Cricket
| Year | Events |
| 1700 | British brought Cricket to India |
| 1721 | The first match played |
| 1848 | the Parsi community in Bombay formed the OrientalCricket Club, the first cricket club to be established by Indians |
| 1932 | India made its debut as a Test-cricket-playing-nation in England, led by CK Nayudu, |
| 1948 | The team’s first series as an independent country was against Australia at Brisbane. Australia was led by Sir Don Bradman while India was led by Lala Amarnath. |
| 1952 | India’s first ever Test victory came against England at Madras. India’s first series victory was against Pakistan later the same year |
| 1961-62 | The first series win over England |
| 1967-68 | India won their first series outside the subcontinent against New Zealand. |
| 1970-71 | The Little Master, Sunil Gavaskar made his debut for India in the West Indies and immediately made an impact, scoring a total of 774 runs for the series and helping India to a 1-0 series win, their first ever win over the West Indies. |
| 1983 | India won the Cricket World Cup, defeating West Indies in an exciting final. |
| 1985 | India won the World Championship of Cricket in Australia. |
| 1990 | The era of the God of Cricket has begun, debut of Sachin |
| 1998 | Sir Donald Bradman himself remarked that Tendulkar batting style was similar to his, this ended the debate of Lara vs Sachin for many, at least to Indians. |
| 1999-00 | The great shock, the Fixing saga. Indians started boycotting its religion. |
| 2001 | Dadagiri era begins. Epic test series vs Aus, India won 2-1. Match referee Mike Denness banned six India players. Wanna Know more? (follow the link) |
| 2003 | Runners-up in ODI World Cup. lost only to Australia twice, in final too. |
| 2004 | 309 against Pakistan in Multan. Guess who? First Indian to achieve the feat. Series win in Pakistan. |
| 2005-06 | Chappel Saga |
| 2007 | Horror in ODI World Cup. Won inaugural T-20 World Cup. Mahi wave starts. Full details. |
| 2008 | IPL started. The commencement of new style of Indian cricket. The Monkeygate scandal. |
| 2011 | Mahi (Mahendra Singh Dhoni) and the team did it again. India won the ODI World Cup, for the 2nd time. |
| 2012 | IPL fixing reports start surfacing. |
| 2013 | Few teams were banned along with few famed players. Details…. |
| 2017-19 | No. 1 ranked Test team in the world successively for 3 consecutive years. |
