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 |
1932ย | India made its debut as a Test-cricket-playing-nation in England, led by CK Nayudu, |
1948ย | The teamโs 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 | Indiaโs first ever Test victory came against England at Madras.ย Indiaโs 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. |
1990ย | 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. |
2001ย | 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) |
2003ย | 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. |
2008ย | 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. |
2012ย | IPL fixing reports start surfacing. |
2013 | Few teams were banned along with few famed players. Detailsโฆ. |
2017-19 | No. 1 ranked Test team in the world successively for 3 consecutive years. |