It is the distinct characteristic of the game that has made cricket 1 of the most popular sports in the globe and its popularity seems to be developing every day. Tournaments like the World cub and T-20 are blessed with an unbelievable response. In world cricket, one of the most venerated squads is from India. Indian cricket has its own flavor in world cricket since renowned players 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. In India, every region has its own regional cricket teams who play in tournaments like the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy. The best participants from these regional cricket teams move forward and get opportunity to prove themselves at international level. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the biggest cricket authority for India – it bears the responsibility of selection of national team and also undertake all other decisions regarding sponsorship and role determination of every player in national cricket squad. Over and above the BCCI, each state also has a cricket controlling authority that carries the responsibility of training and grooming participants for future roles. Unnecessary to mention that the region level governments have a major role to play in building the national teram and recently magnificent and youthful players like Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh and Pathan have moved into the scene with the assistance of region level governments.
It was a point of great national pride and honor when in 1932 the Indian cricket team was recognized as a test team and they were asked to play the first test cricket with England at Lords – and they emerged with flying colors. Since that time Indian participants have never looked back as they moved on making and bettering a number of cricket records. What is more, India has the distinction of winning the world cup in 1983 as well as the Y20 world cup of late and the test victory against England played in Madras in 1952. Afterwards, that same year, the squad won first test series, which was against Pakistan. That was really an indescribable experience for an entire country and after their starting victories the team improved their game throughout the ten years.
The advent of the 1-day international cricket in 1971, has given the game a new perspective. To start India was not very strong in ‘one Day Internationals’, which resulted in a progressive number of lost games, therefore they did not manage to qualify for the second round in the first two cricket world cups. Every lover of the team knows the true spirit and force, which the Indian cricket team possesses. Perhaps, it is their warm wishes and support that made the Indian team the world cup winner in 1983 and gave all Indians grounds to celebrate cricket.
