INDIAN CRICKET

History of Indian cricket - from 1930s  

In this rare interview India's legendary captain Kapil Dev talks about how India progressed to World Cup victory in 1983. The interview was done by BBC's veteran broadcaster Krishna Gould. India gave a hint of determination by winning its first match against West Indies at Old Trafford. Kapil Dev says from that moment he was sure of reaching the semi-finals. He says victory in the finals was a joint team effort. In the match Kapil took a dramatic catch of Viv Richards that changed the course of the match. Richards later said about this catch: "Kapil changed everything with one brilliant catch... I only know that at the end of the game, there were a lot of sick people in our dressing room. We felt sick that we could not win that game." Here is the story of the golden moment of Indian cricket in the words of Indian captain.

The game of cricket was introduced in India in the middle of the 18th century. On 3rd March 1845 the ‘Sporting Intelligence’ magazine carried a reasonably lengthy match report between ‘Sepoy’ cricketers and the European ones. The article clearly proved that Indian cricket was underway in a city called Sylhet, in modern day Bangladesh.

FORMATION OF BCCI

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A.E.R Gilligan’s MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) toured India in 1926 and took on Bombay in a match that proved to be a turning point in the history of Indian cricket. As C K Naidu smashed 153, with elevan sixes and thirteen fours, for the Hindus, India began dreaming big. It eventually led to the formation of BCCI in 1928. Records prove that the first meeting was held on 4 December 1928 and was funded by the Maharaja of Patiala.

                                               The first President of the Board was RE Grant Govan and the founding Secretary was AS De Mello. De Mello later went on to become Board President and was also involved in the creation of the Cricket Club of India. He also helped in establishing Brabourne Stadium which was India’s first permanent cricket venue in 1937

After 1983 india ad so many victory's and they had successful captain and also players

India has played 424 Test Matches (as of November 2, 2008). This is the list of the 31 cricketers who have captained the Indian cricket team for at least one Test match.

The table of results is complete as of 12 December 2008.

Indian Test match captains[1]
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
1	CK Nayudu	1932	England	England	1	0	1	0
		1933/4	England	India	3	0	2	1
		Total			4	0	3	1
2	Maharajkumar of Vizianagram	1936	England	England	3	0	2	1
		Total			3	0	2	1
3	Nawab of Pataudi, Sr.	1946	England	England	3	0	1	2
		Total			3	0	1	2
4	Lala Amarnath	1947/8	Australia	Australia	5	0	4	1
		1948/9	West Indies	India	5	0	1	4
		1952/3	Pakistan	India	5	2	1	2
		Total			15	2	6	7
5	Vijay Hazare	1951/2	England	India	5	1	1	3
		1952	England	England	4	0	3	1
		1952/3	West Indies	West Indies	5	0	1	4
		Total			14	1	5	8
6	Vinoo Mankad	1954/5	Pakistan	Pakistan	5	0	0	5
		1958/9†	West Indies	India	1	0	1	0
		Total			6	0	1	5
7	Ghulam Ahmed	1955/6†	New Zealand	India	1	0	0	1
		1958/9	West Indies	India	2	0	2	0
		Total			3	0	2	1
8	Polly Umrigar	1955/6	New Zealand	India	4	2	0	2
		1956/7	Australia	India	3	0	2	1
		1958/9†	West Indies	India	1	0	0	1
		Total			8	2	2	4
9	Hemu Adhikari	1958/9†	West Indian	India	1	0	0	1
		Total			1	0	0	1
10	Datta Gaekwad	1959	England	England	4	0	4	0
		Total			4	0	4	0
11	Pankaj Roy	1959†	England	England	1	0	1	0
		Total			1	0	1	0
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
12	Gulabrai Ramchand	1959/60	Australia	India	5	1	2	2
		Total			5	1	2	2
13	Nari Contractor	1960/1	Pakistan	India	5	0	0	5
		1961/2	England	India	5	2	0	3
		1961/2†	West Indies	West Indies	2	0	2	0
		Total			12	2	2	8
14	Nawab of Pataudi, Jr.	1961/2	West Indies	West Indies	3	0	3	0
		1963/4	England	India	5	0	0	5
		1964/5	Australia	India	3	1	1	1
		1964/5	New Zealand	India	4	1	0	3
		1966/7	West Indies	India	3	0	2	1
		1967	England	England	3	0	3	0
		1967/8	Australia	Australia	3	0	3	0
		1967/8	New Zealand	New Zealand	4	3	1	0
		1969/70	New Zealand	India	3	1	1	1
		1969/70	Australia	India	5	1	3	1
		1974/5	West Indies	India	4	2	2	0
		Total			40	9	19	12
15	Chandu Borde	1967/8†	Australia	Australia	1	0	1	0
		Total			1	0	1	0
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
16	Ajit Wadekar	1970/1	West Indies	West Indies	5	1	0	4
		1971	England	England	3	1	0	2
		1972/3	England	India	5	2	1	2
		1974	England	England	3	0	3	0
		Total			16	4	4	8
17	Srinivas Venkataraghavan	1974/5†	West Indies	India	1	0	1	0
		1979	England	England	4	0	1	3
		Total			5	0	2	3
18	Sunil Gavaskar	1975/6†	New Zealand	New Zealand	1	1	0	0
		1978/9	West Indies	India	6	1	0	5
		1979/80	Australia	India	6	2	0	4
		1979/80	Pakistan	India	5	2	0	3
		1980/1	Australia	Australia	3	1	1	1
		1980/1	New Zealand	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
		1981/2	England	India	6	1	0	5
		1982	England	England	3	0	1	2
		1982/3	Sri Lanka	India	1	0	0	1
		1982/3	Pakistan	Pakistan	6	0	3	3
		1984/5	Pakistan	Pakistan	2	0	0	2
		1984/5	England	India	5	1	2	2
		Total			47	9	8	30
19	Bishen Singh Bedi	1975/6	New Zealand	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		1975/6	West Indies	West Indies	4	1	2	1
		1976/7	New Zealand	India	3	2	0	1
		1976/7	England	India	5	1	3	1
		1977/8	Australia	Australia	5	2	3	0
		1978/9	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	0	2	1
		Total			22	6	11	5
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
20	Gundappa Viswanath	1979/80†	Pakistan	India	1	0	0	1
		1979/1980	England	India	1	0	1	0
		Total			2	0	1	1
21	Kapil Dev	1982/3	West Indies	West Indies	5	0	2	3
		1983/4	Pakistan	India	3	0	0	3
		1983/4	West Indies	India	6	0	3	3
		1985	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	3	0	1	2
		1985/6	Australia	Australia	3	0	0	3
		1986	England	England	3	2	0	1
		1986/7	Australia	India	3	0	0	2[2]
		1986/7	Sri Lanka	India	3	2	0	1
		1986/7	Pakistan	India	5	0	1	4
		Total			34	4	7	23[2]
22	Dilip Vengsarkar	1987/8	West Indies	India	3	0	1	2
		1988/9	New Zealand	India	3	2	1	0
		1988/9	West Indies	West Indies	4	0	3	1
		Total			10	2	5	3
23	Ravi Shastri	1987/8†	West Indies	India	1	1	0	0
		Total			1	1	0	0
24	Krishnamachari Srikkanth	1989/90	Pakistan	Pakistan	4	0	0	4
		Total			4	0	0	4
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
25	Mohammad Azharuddin	1989/90	New Zealand	New Zealand	3	0	1	2
		1990	England	England	3	0	1	2
		1990/1	Sri Lanka	India	1	1	0	0
		1991/2	Australia	Australia	5	0	4	1
		1992/3	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	1	0	0	1
		1992/3	South Africa	South Africa	4	0	1	3
		1992/3	England	India	3	3	0	0
		1992/3	Zimbabwe	India	1	1	0	0
		1993	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	3	1	0	2
		1993/4	Sri Lanka	India	3	3	0	0
		1993/4	New Zealand	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		1994/5	West Indies	India	3	1	1	1
		1995/6	New Zealand	India	3	1	0	2
		1996	England	England	3	0	1	2
		1997/8	Australia	India	3	2	1	0
		1998/9	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	1	0	1	0
		1998/9	New Zealand	New Zealand	2	0	1	1
		1998/9	Pakistan	India	2	1	1	0
		1998/9[3]	Pakistan	India	1	0	1	0
		1998/9[3]	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	1	0	0	1
		Total			47	14	14	19
26	Sachin Tendulkar	1996/7	Australia	India	1	1	0	0
		1996/7	South Africa	India	3	2	1	0
		1996/7	South Africa	South Africa	3	0	2	1
		1996/7	West Indies	West Indies	5	0	1	4
		1997	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	2	0	0	2
		1997/8	Sri Lanka	India	3	0	0	3
		1999/2000	New Zealand	India	3	1	0	2
		1999/2000	Australia	Australia	3	0	3	0
		1999/2000	South Africa	India	2	0	2	0
		Total			25	4	9	12
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
27	Sourav Ganguly	2000/1	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	1	1	0	0
		2000/1	Zimbabwe	India	2	1	0	1
		2000/1	Australia	India	3	2	1	0
		2001	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	1	1	0
		2001	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	3	1	2	0
		2001/2	South Africa	South Africa	2	0	1	1
		2001/2	England	India	3	1	0	2
		2001/2	Zimbabwe	India	2	2	0	0
		2001/2	West Indies	West Indies	5	1	2	2
		2002	England	England	4	1	1	2
		2002/3	West Indies	India	3	2	0	1
		2002/3	New Zealand	New Zealand	2	0	2	0
		2003/4	New Zealand	India	1	0	0	1
		2003/4	Australia	Australia	4	1	1	2
		2003/4†	Pakistan	Pakistan	1	1	0	0
		2004/5	Australia	India	2	0	1	1
		2004/5	South Africa	India	2	1	0	1
		2004/5	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	2	2	0	0
		2004/5	Pakistan	India	3	1	1	1
		2005/6	Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	2	2	0	0
		Total			49	21	13	15
Number	Name	Year	Opposition	Location	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
28	Rahul Dravid	2003/4†	New Zealand	India	1	0	0	1
		2003/4†	Pakistan	Pakistan	2	1	1	0
		2004/5†	Australia	India	2	1	1	0
		2005/6	Sri Lanka	India	2	1	0	1
		2005/6	Pakistan	Pakistan	3	0	1	2
		2005/6	England	India	3	1	1	1
		2005/6	West Indies	West Indies	4	1	0	3
		2006/7	South Africa	South Africa	3	1	2	0
		2007	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	2	1	0	1
		2007	England	England	3	1	0	2
		Total			25	8	6	11
29	Virender Sehwag	2005/6†	Sri Lanka	India	1	1	0	0
		2009	New Zealand	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
		Total			2	1	0	1
30	Anil Kumble	2007	Pakistan	India	3	1	0	2
		2007/8	Australia	Australia	4	1	2	1
		2008	South Africa	India	2	0	1	1
		2008	Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	3	1	2	0
		2008	Australia	India	2	0	0	2
		Total			14	3	5	6
31	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	2008†	South Africa	India	1	1	0	0
		2008†	Australia	India	2	2	0	0
		2008	England	India	2	1	0	1
		2009	New Zealand	New Zealand	2	1	0	1
Total					7	5	0	2
Total					429	99	136	194[2]

Records and highlights

• Ganguly has captained India in the most number of Tests - 49. Azharuddin and Gavaskar have captained India in 47 matches each.^[4]

• Ganguly has led India to victory in 21 matches - the most by any Indian captain. He is followed by Azharuddin with 14 victories, while Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and Gavaskar have 9 victories each.^[5]
  • Ganguly has recorded a victory on Indian soil against every team that has visited India except New Zealand. India did not play Bangladesh and Sri Lanka on home soil during his leadership.^[6]

• Hazare led India to its first Test victory - against England in 1951/52 season.^[7]

• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi led India to its first overseas Test victory and first overseas series victory - against New Zealand in 1967/68 season.^[8][9]

• Complete list of Overseas Victories:
  • Ganguly: 11 (Australia, Bangladesh - 3, England, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, West Indies and Zimbabwe - 3)
  • Dravid: 5 (Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Africa, West Indies ,England)
  • Mansoor Ali Khan: 3 (New Zealand - 3)
  • Bedi: 3 (West Indies, Australia - 2)
  • Wadekar: 2 (West Indies, England)
  • Gavaskar: 2 (New Zealand, Australia)
  • Kapil Dev: 2 (England - 2)
  • Azharuddin: 1 (Sri Lanka)
  • Anil Kumble: 2 (Australia, Sri Lanka)
  • Mahendra Singh Dhoni: 1 (New Zealand)

• Gavaskar has scored 3449 runs - the highest by any Indian while acting as captain. He also holds the record for the highest number of centuries while playing as captain (11). Azharuddin has nine centuries when leading India as its captain while Tendulkar has seven.

• Kapil Dev has 111 wickets in 34 matches as India's captain while Bedi has 106 wickets in 22 matches. Bedi has eight 5 Wicket/Innings hauls compared to Kapil Dev's four.

• Tendulkar has the highest average of 51.35 (25 matches) while captaining India while Gavaskar averages 50.72 (47 matches). Dravid (45.74 over 20 matches) and Azharuddin (43.93 over 47 matches) are the others to average above 40 while leading the country.

• Captains who have not led India on home soil: Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, Nawab of Pataudi Sr., Datta Gaekwad, Pankaj Roy, Chandu Borde and Krishnamachari Srikanth

• Captains who have not led India on foreign soil: Ghulam Ahmed, Polly Umrigar, Hemu Adhikari, Gulabrai Ramchand, Gundappa Viswanath and Ravi Shastri

• Kapil Dev was the captain of India's only tied-test match (against Australia in Chepauk, Chennai).^[10]

• M.S.Dhoni is the only Indian captain who won all his first four Tests as captain.

Men's One-Day International captains

This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Indian cricket team for at least one One Day International.

The table of results is complete to the Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 2009 ODI matches.

Indian ODI captains
Number	Name	Year	Played	Won	Lost	Tied	No result	Win %[11]
1	Ajit Wadekar	1974	2	0	2	0	0	0
2	Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan	1975-1979	7	1	6	0	0	14
3	Bishen Singh Bedi	1975/6-1978/9	4	1	3	0	0	25
4	Sunil Gavaskar	1980/1-1985/6	38	14	22	0	2	39
5	Gundappa Viswanath	1980/1	1	0	1	0	0	0
6	Kapil Dev	1982/3-1992/1993	74	40	32	0	2	56
7	Syed Kirmani	1983/4	1	0	1	0	0	0
8	Mohinder Amarnath	1984/1985	1	0	0	0	1	NA
9	Ravi Shastri	1986/7-1991/2	11	4	7	0	0	36
10	Dilip Vengsarkar	1987/8-1988/9	18	8	10	0	0	44
11	Krishnamachari Srikkanth	1989/90	13	4	8	0	1	33
12	Mohammad Azharuddin	1989/90-1999	173	89	76	2	6	54
13	Sachin Tendulkar	1996-1999/2000	73	23	43	1	6	35
14	Ajay Jadeja	1997/8-1999/2000	13	8	5	0	0	62
15	Sourav Ganguly	1999-2005	146[12]	76	65[12]	0	5	54
16	Rahul Dravid	2000/1-2007	79	42	33	0	4	53
17	Anil Kumble	2001/2	1	1	0	0	0	100
18	Virender Sehwag	2005	5	3	2	0	0	60
19	Mahendra Singh Dhoni	2007/8-2009/10	51	31	16	0	4	62
Total			707	343	332	3	30	49

[edit] Records and highlights

• M.S.Dhoni has the highest win rate (62%) for Indians who have captained more than 20 matches. Kapil Dev comes in with 56% win rate.Ganguly,Dravid India's two most capped captains come close with 54% win rate.^[13]

• Kapil Dev is the only Indian captain to lead the side to Cricket World Cup victory, in 1983.

• Tendulkar's score of 186* against New Zealand in 1999/00 season bettered Viv Richards' record (181 against Sri Lanka) for the highest score by a captain in ODI cricket. Tendulkar's record was broken by Sanath Jayasuriya who scored 189 against India in 2000/01 season. Prior to Richards, Kapil Dev (175*) was the owner of the record when he broke Glenn Turner's score of 171*.

• Ganguly has the best bowling figures returned by an Indian captain in ODI cricket, which he recorded against Zimbabwe (10-1-34-5). Kapil Dev is the only other Indian captain to have taken a five wicket haul (12-2-43-5 against Australia)

• Ganguly has scored the most number of centuries while captaining India (11). Only Ricky Ponting (15) from any country has more centuries in ODI cricket than Ganguly while captaining. Tendulkar (6), Azharuddin (4), Dravid (2), Dhoni (2), Jadeja (1), Kapil Dev (1), Shastri (1) are the other cricketers who have scored a century when captaining the Indian ODI team.

• Azharuddin has the most number of runs as India's ODI captain (5165 runs at 12) while Ganguly has 5104 runs (ave:38.66). Tendulkar (2454 runs at ave:37.75), Dravid (2313 runs at ave:42.83), Dhoni (1808 runs at ave 58.32), Kapil Dev (1538 runs at ave:29.57) are the only other captains who have scored more than 1,000 runs when leading the side

• Azharuddin (2) and Tendulkar (1) are the only two captains with tied-ODI matches.

• M.S.Dhoni is the first & only wicket keeper to captain any team for more than 50 matches.