India Team Stats
Ruling Body: Board of
Control for Cricket in India |
Captain : Virat Kohli |
Coach: Anil Kumble |
Granted Test status: 25
June 1932 |
Current international ranking:
Official
ICC rankings |
Tests |
ODIs |
T20s |
- P 512, W
139, L 158, D
214, T 1
|
- P 896, W
451, L 399, T
7, NR
39 |
- P 81, W
48, L 30, T
1, NR 1 |
Recent highest test totals:
- 759/7d v England (2016)
- 687/6d v Bangladesh (2017)
- 631 v England (2016) |
Recent highest ODI totals:
- 404/5 v Sri Lanka (2014)
- 383/6 v Australia (2013)
- 381/6 v England (2017) |
Recent highest T20 totals:
- 244/4 v West Indies (2016)
- 202/4 v Australia (2013)
- 202/6 v England (2017)
|
Capped players: 286 |
Capped players: 216
|
Capped players: 68 |
Highest individual score:
319 (V Sehwag) |
Highest individual score:
264 (SG Sharma) |
Highest individual score:
110* (KL Rahul) |
Most career runs: 15,921
(SR Tendulkar) |
Most career runs: 18,426
(SR Tendulkar) |
Most career runs: 1,709*
(V Kohli) |
Best bowling (innings):
10/74 (A Kumble) |
Best bowling: 6/4
(S Binny) |
Best bowling: 6/25
(YS Chahal) |
Best bowling (match):
16/136 (ND Hirwani) |
|
|
Most career wickets:
619 (A Kumble) |
Most career wickets: 337
(A Kumble) |
Most career wickets: 52*
(R Ashwin) |
Highest team inns: 726/9 v
Sri Lanka - 2009 |
Highest team inns: 418/5
v West Indies - 2011 |
Highest team inns: 244/4
v West Indies - 2016 |
Highest run chase achieved: 406/4
v West Indies - 1976 |
Highest run chase achieved:
362/1 v
Australia
- 2013 |
Highest run chase achieved:
211/4 v Sri Lanka - 2009 |
Average RpO: 2.94 |
Average RpO: 5.01 |
Average RpO: 8.03
|
|
Top
run-scorers |
15921 - SR Tendulkar
13265
- R Dravid
10122
- SM Gavaskar
8781 -
VVS Laxman
8503 -
V Sehwag |
18426 - SR Tendulkar
11221
- SC Ganguly
10768
- R Dravid
9378 -
M Azharuddin
9101 -
MS Dhoni
|
1709
-
V Kohli
1364 -
RG Sharma
1307 -
SK Raina
1209
-
MS Dhoni
1177
- Yuvraj Singh
|
|
Top
wicket-takers |
619 - A Kumble
434 -
N Kapil Dev
417 -
Harbhajan Singh
311 -
Z Khan
266 -
BS Bedi |
334 - A Kumble
315 -
J Srinath
288 -
AB Agarkar
269 -
Z Khan
265 -
Harbhajan Singh |
52
- R
Ashwin
34
- A Nehra
33 -
JJ Bumrah
37 -
RA Jadeja
28
-
Yuvraj Singh
|
|
Partnership
Records |
1st
- 413 - MH
Mankad/P Roy
2nd - 370
- M Vijay/CA Pujara
3rd - 336 -
V Sehwag/SR Tendulkar
4th - 353 -
VVS Laxman/SR Tendulkar
5th - 376 -
VVS Laxman/R Dravid
6th - 298* -
DB Vengsarkar/RJ Shastri
7th - 280
- RG Sharma/R Ashwin
8th - 161 -
M Azharuddin/A Kumble
9th - 149 -
PG Joshi/RB Desai
10th - 133
- SR Tendulkar/Zaheer Khan |
1st
- 258 - SC
Ganguly/SR Tendulkar
2nd - 331 -
SR Tendulkar/R Dravid
3rd - 237*
- R Dravid/SR Tendulkar
4th - 275*
- M Azharuddin/AD Jadeja
5th - 223 -
M Azharuddin/AD Jadeja
6th - 160 -
AT Rayudu/STR Binny
7th - 125*
-
MS Dhoni/R Ashwin
8th - 84 -
Harbhajan Singh/P Kumar
9th - 126*
- Kapil Dev/SMH Kirmani
10th - 64 -
Harbhajan Singh/L Balaji |
1st
- 136 - G
Gambhir/VSehwag
2nd - 138 -
RG Sharma/V Kohli
3rd - 134
- V Kohli/SK Raina
4th - 107
- KL Rahul/MS Dhoni
5th - 102*
- Yuvraj Singh/MS
Dhoni
6th - 63* -
MS Dhoni/YK Pathan
7th - 59* -
MS Dhoni/R Ashwin
8th - 61
-
SK Raina/Harbhajan Singh
9th - 36
- RG Sharma/Z Khan
10th - 17*
- S Sreesanth/RP Singh |
As at May 26, 2017
History:
The British brought cricket to India in the early 1700s, with
the first cricket match played in 1721. In 1848, the Parsi community in
Bombay formed the Oriental Cricket Club, the first cricket club to be
established by Indians. After slow beginnings, the Europeans eventually
invited the Parsis to play a match in 1877. By 1912, the Parsis,Sikhs,
Hindus, and Muslims of Bombay played a quadrangular tournament with the
Europeans every year.[13] In the early 1900s, some Indians went on to
play for the English cricket team. Some of these, such as Ranjitsinhji
and KS Duleepsinhji were greatly appreciated by the British and their
names went on to be used for the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy- two
major first class tournaments in India. In 1911, an Indian team went on
their first official tour of England, but only played English county
teams and not the English cricket team. India was invited into The
Imperial Cricket Council in 1926 and made its debut as a
Test-cricket-playing-nation in 1932 led by CK Nayudu. The match was
given Test status despite being only 3 days in length. The team was not
strong in its batting at this point and went on to lose by 158 runs.
The Indian team continued to improve throughout the 1930s and '40s but
did not achieve an international victory during this period. The team's
first series as an independent country was in 1948 against Sir Donald
Bradman's Invincibles (a name given to the Australian cricket team of
that time). Australia won the five-match series, 4-0.
India recorded their first Test victory against England at
Madras (now Chennai) in 1952. Later in the year, they won their first
Test series, which was against Pakistan. They continued their
improvement throughout the early 1950s with a series win against New
Zealand in 1956. However, they did not win again in the remainder of
the decade and lost badly to strong Australian and English sides. The
next decade saw India's reputation develop as a team with a strong
record at home. Although they only won two series (both against New
Zealand), they managed to draw home series against Pakistan, England
and Australia.
The key to India's bowling in the 1970s were the Indian spin
quartet - Bishen Bedi, E.A.S. Prasanna, BS Chandrasekhar and Srinivas
Venkataraghavan. This period also saw the emergence of two of India's
best ever batsmen, Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath. Indian
pitches have had tendency to support spin and the spin quartet
exploited this to create collapses in opposing batting lineups. These
players were responsible for the back-to-back series wins in 1971 in
the West Indies and in England, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar.
Gavaskar scored 774 runs in the West Indian series while Dilip
Sardesai's 112 played a big part in their one Test win.
The advent of One-Day International cricket in 1971 created a
new dimension in the cricket world. However, India was not considerably
strong in ODIs at this point and batsmen such as the captain Gavaskar
were known for their defence-based approaches to batting. India began
as a weak team in ODIs and did not manage to qualify for the second
round in the first two editions of the Cricket World Cup. Gavaskar
famously blocked his way to 36 not out off 174 balls against England in
the first World Cup in 1975, India scored just 132 for 3 and lost by
202 runs.
In contrast, India fielded a strong team in Test matches and
were particularly strong at home where their combination of stylish
batsman and beguiling spinners where seen at their best. India set a
then test record in the third Test against the West Indies at
Port-of-Spain in 1976 when they chased 403 to win thanks to 112 from
Vishwanath. This West Indian defeat is considered to be a watershed in
the history of their cricket because it led to captain Clive Lloyd
dispensing with spin altogether and relying entirely on a four man pace
attack. In November 1976 the team established another record by scoring
524 for 9 declared against New Zealand at Kanpur without an individual
scoring a century. There were six fifties, the highest being 70 by
Mohinder Amarnath. The innings was the eighth instance in Test cricket
where all eleven batsmen reached double figures.
During the 1980s, India developed a more attack minded
batting line-up with stroke makers such as the wristy Mohammed
Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar and all-rounder Ravi Shastri prominent
during this time. India won the Cricket World Cup in 1983, defeating
the then favourites West Indies in the final, owing to a strong bowling
performance. In spite of this the team performed poorly in the Test
arena, including 28 consecutive Test matches without a victory. In
1984, India won the Asia Cup and in 1985, won the World Championship of
Cricket in Australia. Apart from this, India remained a very weak team
outside the Indian subcontinent. India's Test series victory in 1986
against England remained the last Test series win by India outside the
subcontinent for the next 19 years. The 1987 Cricket World Cup was held
in India. The 1980s saw Gavaskar and Kapil Dev (India's best all
rounder to this date) at the pinnacle of their careers. Gavaskar made a
Test record 34 centuries as he became the first man to reach the 10,000
run mark. Kapil Dev later became the highest wicket taker in Test
cricket with 434 wickets. The period was also marked by an unstable
leadership, with Gavaskar and Kapil exchanging the captaincy several
times.
The addition of Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble to the
national side in 1989 and 1990 further improved the team. The following
year, Javagal Srinath, India's fastest bowler since Amar Singh made his
debut. Despite this, during the 1990s, India did not win any of its 33
Tests outside the subcontinent while it won 17 out of its 30 Tests at
home. After being eliminated by neighbours Sri Lanka on home soil at
the 1996 Cricket World Cup, the team underwent a year of change as
Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, later to be become captains of the team,
made their debut in the same Test at Lord's. Tendulkar replaced
Azharuddin as captain in late 1996, but after a personal and team form
slump, Tendulkar relinquished the captaincy and Azharuddin was
reinstalled at the beginning of 1998. With the captaincy burden
removed, Tendulkar was the world's leading run-scorer in both Tests and
ODIs, as India enjoyed a home Test series win over Australia, the best
ranked team in the world. After failing to reach the semifinals at the
1999 Cricket World Cup, Tendulkar was again made captain, and had
another poor run, losing 3-0 on a tour of Australia and then 2-0 at
home to South Africa. Tendulkar resigned, vowing never to captain the
team again, with Sourav Ganguly appointed the new captain. The team was
further damaged in 2000 when former captain Azharuddin and fellow
batsman Ajay Jadeja were implicated in a match-fixing scandal and given
life bans.
Since 2000, the Indian team underwent major improvements with
the appointment of John Wright as India's first ever foreign coach.
India maintained their unbeaten home record against Australia in Test
series after defeating them in 2001. The series was famous for the
Kolkata Test match, in which India became only the third team in the
history of Test cricket to win a Test match after following on.
Australian captain Steve Waugh labelled India as the "Final Frontier"
as a result of his side's inability to win a Test series in India.
Victory in 2001 against the Australians marked the beginning of a dream
run for India under their captain Sourav Ganguly, winning Test matches
in Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, West Indies and England. The England series is
also known for India's highest ODI run-chase of 325 runs at Lord's
which came in the Natwest ODI Series final against England. In the same
year, India were joint winners of the ICC Champions Trophy with Sri
Lanka, and then went to the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa
where they reached the final only to be beaten by Australia. The
2003-2004 season also saw India play out a Test series in Australia
where they drew 1-1 with world champions, and then win a Test and ODI
series in Pakistan.
At the end of the 2004 season, India suffered from lack of
form and fitness from its older players. A defeat in a following home
Test series against Australia was followed by an ODI home series defeat
against Pakistan followed by a Test series levelled 1-1. Greg Chappell
took over from John Wright as the new coach of the Indian cricket team
following the series, and his methods proved to be controversial during
the beginning of his tenure. The tension resulted in a fallout between
Chappell and Ganguly, resulting in Rahul Dravid being made captain.
This triggered a revival in the team's fortunes, following the
emergence of players like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, and the
coming of age of players like Irfan Pathan and Yuvraj Singh. A thumping
home series victory over Sri Lanka in 2005 and a level series with
South Africa put India at 2nd place in the ICC ODI rankings. This was
followed by a convincing ODI series win in Pakistan in early 2006
following a loss in the Test series, which gave India the world record
of 17 successive ODI victories while batting second. Towards the middle
of 2006 however, a 4-1 series loss in the West Indies gave rise to a
slump in India's ODI form, while they achieved a 1-0 victory in the
Test series that followed, giving them their first Test series victory
in the Caribbean since 1971. India's ODI form, however, slumped further
with a disappointing performance in the 2006 Champions Trophy and a
drubbing in the ODI series in South Africa. This was followed yet again
by an initial good performance in the Tests, giving India its first
Test match win in South Africa, although they went on to lose the
series 2-1. This Test series was marked by Ganguly's comeback to the
Indian team.
The beginning of 2007 had seen a revival in the Indian team's
ODI fortunes before the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Series victories
against the West Indies and Sri Lanka, marked by the comeback of
Ganguly, and strong form by Tendulkar, and the emergence of young
attacking players like Robin Uthappa saw many pundits to tip India as a
real chance to do well at the 2007 Cricket World Cup. However, defeats
to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka saw India fail to reach the final eight.
India's traditional strengths have always been its line-up of spin
bowlers and batsmen. Recently, it has a very strong batting lineup with
Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag all being selected
to play for the ICC World XI in the 2005 "SuperTest" against Australia.
In previous times, India was unique in that it was the only country to
regularly field three spinners in one team, whereas one is the norm,
and of the fifteen players to have taken more than 100 wickets, only
four were pace bowlers from the last 20 years. However in recent years,
Indian pace bowling has improved, with the emerging talents of Zaheer
Khan, Irfan Pathan, Rudra Pratap Singh, Munaf Patel and Ishant Sharma
many more playing in the national team.
In December 2006, it played and won its first ever Twenty20
international in South Africa, becoming the most recent Test team to
play Twenty20 cricket. After winning the Test series against England in
August 2007, Rahul Dravid stepped down as the captain of the team
following which Mahendra Singh Dhoni was made the captain of the
Twenty20 and ODI team. In September 2007, it won the first ever
Twenty20 World Cup held in South Africa, beating Pakistan by 5 runs in
a thrilling final. Then they toured Australia with a controversial
series that they lost 2-1 in test but come back for a whitewash final
against them.
After beating Sri Lanka 2–0 in December 2009, India become the
No. 1 team in the world. then retained by drawing a series to South
Africa and Sri Lanka confirmed their rankings. In October 2010 India
won the test series 2–0 against Australia giving them back to back
series win vs them. Then they got the first drawn series in South
Africa. When India slipped to a 4–0 defeat to England in August 2011,
England replaced India as the No. 1 Test team.
On 2 April 2011, the team won the 2011 Cricket World Cup, its
second after 1983. It thus became only the third team after West Indies
and Australia to have won the World Cup twice, the previous win being
in 1983. Gautam Gambhir and the skipper Dhoni led the way with 97 and
91* respectively. India also became the first team to the World Cup on
home soil.
India were whitewashed 4-0 in away Test series by England in August
2011 due to which England replaced India as the No. 1 Test team in the
rankings. This series was followed by another 4-0 whitewash of India in
January 2012 in Australia. The disastrous whitewashes saw the
retirement of Dravid and VVS Laxman from Test cricket in 2012.
Tendulkar retired in November 2013 after his 200th Test match. With
Ganguly having retired in 2008, this period signaled the end of the
fabled middle-order batting line-up Indian had for a decade.