History of Indian Cricket

 India started playing Cricket way back in 1721 unofficially but was granted the official test status in 1932. They played their first test cricket match from 25th June to 28th June in the year 1932 against England at Lords' in London. India was lead by C.K. Nayuduat that time. India was considered a weak team in the Cricketing Circuit for long time but Indian team changed from 1950s and is a major force to reckon with today.

Indian Cricket in 20th Century
After its initiation, Cricket started gaining popularity among the Indian people within a short period of time. The middle and last half of the 19th century was an important period in the history of Indian Cricket, as the game spread its reach in almost all the parts of India during that period.

The First Test Match was played in 1932. Though India did not have a national cricket team during the early 1900s, a few Indian great cricketers of that era did represent the England cricket team. Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Duleep Singhji were the prominent ones among them.

Indian Cricket during 1950s
After Independence, a big push came in the history of Indian Cricket, when India got its first ever Test series win against the neighbouring Asian counterpart and archrivals Pakistan, in 1952. The series saw brilliant and extraordinary performances from some of the greatest Indian Cricket players like Polly Umrigar, Vijay Manjrekar and S.M. Gupte.

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Indian Cricket During 1960s

  

Indian cricket team during 1960s did get some significant successes that include some wonderful individual performances like the world record opening partnership of 413 runs between Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad against New Zealand in 1955. The world record stood tall till the first half of this year, when the South African opening pair, Graeme Smith and Neil McKenzie broke it. Mankad-Roy's partnership stood tall for as long as 53 years and the new record of 415 runs was made by Smith-McKenzie, in March, 2008, against Bangladesh. Some other brilliant performance in this decade was Subhash Gupte's leg spin magic against the West Indies in West Indies in 1952-53 and also the Jasu Patel's stand-out performance against Richie Benaud's Australians in 1958-59. Overall, this decade witnessed some of the remarkable moments in the history of Indian cricket.

While making the world record opening partnership of 413 runs for India, the great batsmen, Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy batted throughout the entire first day of the Test against New Zealand, which itself was a record. The partnership was really a valuable one for India, as it helped India clinch a huge an innings and 109-run victory in the fifth and final Test against New Zealand at home in 1955. They surpassed the previous world record of 359 runs, made by England's Len Hutton and Cyril Washbrook against South Africa in 1948-49. They showed a lot of grit and determination and batted out some hostile spells of bowling from the famous New Zealand bowlers like Cave and Hayes. Mankad eventually got out for 231 runs, that was the highest individual score by an Indian till then and the score of Roy was 173 runs. Roy also scored another two centuries in the same series and became one of the star players for India in its second home series win.

The Indian team presented some more glorious and spectacular moments for the Indian cricket enthusiasts in the 1960s, as they established themselves a team to reckon with on sub continental soil with consistent performances at home. The team first became successful to win a Test series against the England team for the first time in its history in 1961-62. It was considered as a sweet revenge, as the England team did white-washed the Indian team in its previous tour of England, in 1959. India won the four match series in 1961-62 by 1-0, by winning the last match, after drawing the first three.

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India`s Memorable Overseas Test-Series Wins

  

The performance of the Indian cricket team saw a lot of improvement in the later half of the 1960s and the improvement was evident from India's first ever Test series win in overseas, against New Zealand in 1968.

India Tour to New Zealand and England in 1968
The Indian team went on the tour of New Zealand in 1968, with Tiger Pataudi as the Indian captain and the win broke a 35-year-long plague of India's not winning a series overseas. India won the series by a comprehensive 3-1 and the Indian team literally dominated the New Zealand attack in the series. The players like E.A.S. Prasanna, B.S. Bedi and R.G. Nadkarni were the stars for India in the series win and Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi also led the team with distinction.

Once the Indian team broke the jinx of winning a series overseas in 1968, against New Zealand, it became much more confident of repeating the success again and they did so twice within a short period. After the New Zealanders, the Indians beat the mighty West Indies in West Indies and also the England team in England.

India Tour to West Indies in 1971
The Indian cricket team went for a tour to West Indies in 1971 and it became successful to take a great revenge of the humiliation that it faced in its previous tour of West Indies, when West Indies white washed the Indians by 5-0. The Indian team played extremely well in the series to beat the West Indies team by 1-0.

The performance of the Indian cricket team saw a lot of improvement in the later half of the 1960s and the improvement was evident from India's first ever Test series win in overseas, against New Zealand in 1968. The Indian team went on the tour of New Zealand in 1968, with Tiger Pataudi as the Indian captain and the win broke a 35-year-long plague of India's not winning a series overseas. India won the series by a comprehensive 3-1 and the Indian team literally dominated the New Zealand attack in the series. The players like E.A.S. Prasanna, B.S. Bedi and R.G. Nadkarni were the stars for India in the series win and Pataudi also led the team with distinction.

Once the Indian team broke the jinx of winning a series overseas in 1968, against New Zealand, it became much more confident of repeating the success again and they did so twice within a short period. After the New Zealanders, the Indians beat the mighty West Indies in West Indies and also the England team in England. The Indian cricket team, led by Ajit Wadekar, went for a tour to West Indies in 1971. The team became successful to take a great revenge of the humiliation that it faced in its previous tour of West Indies, when West Indies white washed the Indians by 5-0. The Indian team played extremely well in the series to beat the West Indies team by 1-0.

The successful tour against West Indies is always considered as one of the most memorable moments in the history of Indian cricket, as this was the series that boost up the self-confidence of the Indians, a lot. The Indian cricket team fought hard with the mighty and dangerous West Indians in all the five Test matches of the series and became successful to win the second one, which eventually became decisive.

However, the most notable facts of the tour definitely include India's first victory in the Caribbean, the team spirit of the Indians through out the series and also the emergence of a young batsman, named Sunil Gavaskar.

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Cricket Association of Bengal

  

Cricket Association of Bengal or CAB, as it is also known as, is the administrative body for cricket in West Bengal. The head-quarter for this cricket association is situated in one of the oldest Indian Cricket Stadiums, the famous Eden Gardens stadium, Kolkata. It organizes and hosts various types of cricket tournaments in the state of West Bengal.

CAB is affiliated to the Board of Control for Cricket in India, which is of course the parent body for all the Indian Cricket Associations, and is also involved in hosting cricket in Bengal.

Various Tournaments Arranged by CAB
The Cricket Association of Bengal also develops and promotes the game of cricket by conducting many League Tournaments, tournaments for Under-13, Under-16, Under-19 and Under-21 categories.

CAB also conducts tournaments of National and International importance.

Some Important Tournaments that CAB Conducts:
* CAB One Day League
* CAB Two Day League
* P. Sen Trophy
* A.N. Ghosh Memorial Trophy
* J.C. Mukherjee Trophy
* CAB Under Thirteen
* CAB Under Sixteen
* CAB Under Twenty one
* Ranji TrophyMatches
* One day International Matches
* International Test Matches

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Women Cricketers in India

  

Women Cricketers in India from the 1970 showed their talent, but the women cricket tournaments are not popular even now-a-days. But the recent developments in Women Cricket is making it popular. There are various women cricket players in India. Some of them are Anjum Chopra, Sandhya Agarwal, Karu Jain, Jhulan Goswami, Mithali Raj, Nilima Jogalekar and Shantha Rangaswamy.

Shantha Rangaswamy
Shantha Rangaswamy is also popularly known as Shanta Rangaswamy. She was born on 1st January 1954 in the city of Madras now known asChennai. She was a part of the women's cricket team and represented her country in 16 matches' from1976 to 1991, leading the side in 8 matches in 1976-77 and four in 1983-84.

Diana Edulji
Diana Fram Edulji was born on 26th January 1956 is a former Indian women Test cricketer. She was born in the city of Mumbai and was drawn to sports from a very young age. During her growing up days she played with tennis ball in the colony where she lived. She then also went on to play table tennis and basket ball at the junior national levels, before shifting to cricket.

Sujata Sridhar
Sujata Sridhar was born on 25th December 1961 is a former ODI and Test cricketer who represented India. She played three tests and six ODI's and also played for Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in the domestic leagues.

Fowzieh Khalili
Fowzieh Khalili was born on 10th October 1958 in the city of Chennai. She represented India at the ODI and Test level and played her domestic cricket for the state of Tamil Nadu. She played eight Tests and thirteen One Day Internationals matches.

Purnima Rau
Purnima Rau was born on 30th January 1967 in the city of Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Purnima Rau is a former cricketer and was a part of the women's cricket team. She played Test cricket (5 matches between 1993 and 1995) and ODI cricket for India (33 matches between 1993 and 2000), and also captained Air India Women's cricket team in Indian domestic women's cricket. Rau captained the Indian team in 3 Test matches and 8 ODI matches.

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Blind Cricket, Indian Sport

  

Blind cricket in India is a version of the sport of cricket adapted for blind cricketers. It is for those who are blind and have a great knack in playing cricket.

Blind cricket is for those who are also partially-sighted players. It has been governed by the World Blind Cricket Council (WBCC) since 1996. So far, four Blind World Cups have been held in New Delhi in the year 1998, Chennai in the year 2002 and Islamabad, Pakistan in the year 2006. In 2012, the first Blind World Cup Twenty 20 was held in Bengaluru. The blind cricket relies on common use of the 'sweep shot', in order to provide maximum chance of the bat hitting the ball.

History of Blind Cricket
Blind cricket was invented in Melbourne in the year 1922 by two blind factory workers who improvised the game using a tin can containing rocks. The Victorian Blind Cricket Association was founded shortly after, in the year 1922, and the first sports ground and clubhouse for blind cricket was built at Kooyong, Melbourne in the year 1928. It was the world’s first Test Cricket match for the Blind was played which was played between Pakistan and South Africa in which Pakistan Cricket Team defeated South Africa Cricket Team by 94 runs.

Blind Cricket World Cup
South Africa Cricket team won first Blind Cricket World Cup in the year 1998 by defeating Pakistan Cricket team in the finals, while Pakistan consecutively won next two Blind Cricket World Cup (BCWC) defeating South Africa and India in the finals in the year 2002 and 2006. In the year 2014, the Blind Cricket World Cup championship was won by Indian Cricket team defeating the two time winner Pakistan Cricket team.

Rules of Playing in Blind Cricket
The WBCC International playing rules are classified in 25 classes. Each class has single or multiple clauses. The rules of blind cricket are based on the standard Laws of Cricket with some essential modifications.

Equipments in Blind Cricket
In terms of playing equipment, the major adaptation is the ball, which is significantly larger than a standard cricket ball and filled with ball bearings. The size of the ball allows partially sighted players to see the ball and the contents allow blind players to hear it. The wicket (stumps) is also larger, to allow partially sighted players to see and blind players to touch it in order to correctly orient themselves when batting or bowling.

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World Cup Cricket and India

  

World Cup Cricket since its inception in the year 1975 includes India as one of its participant teams .As the biggest tournament of One-Day international format, the World Cup Cricket was first held in the year 1975 in England. Since then, India has participated in all the editions of the tournament and has also become the winner in two occasions, in 1983 and in 2011. India in World Cup Cricket has always shown great performances and was part of some of the greatest matches in World Cup history.

World Cup Cricket, 1975
In the inaugural edition of the World Cup Cricket in 1975, India was placed along with the teams like England, New Zealand and East Africa in a group. India played its first match in World Cup against England and miserably lost the match by a huge margin of 202 runs. In the next match, it comfortably defeated the East Africa side by a huge margin of 10 wickets. However, as it failed to beat New Zealand in its last group match, it could not enter into the next round of the tournament. That was the end of India's campaign in the World Cup Cricket, 1975.

World Cup Cricket, 1979
In the second edition of World Cup Cricket, 1979 that was also held in England, India put on a worse performance. India was placed in a group, along with the defending champions, West Indies, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. India once again started the tournament in a disastrous manner, as it lost its first match against West Indies by a huge margin of 9 wickets. India once again lost to the New Zealand team in the second match by a huge margin of 8 wickets. India then faced the biggest humiliation in its last group match against Sri Lanka, the then minnows of World Cricket. It failed to achieve an easy target of 238 runs set by Sri Lanka and eventually lost the match. The World Cup Cricket, 1979 is considered as the worst World Cup for India.

World Cup Cricket, 1983
However, the scenario changed entirely in the World Cup Cricket, 1983 and India played great Cricket in that tournament. India started the tournament in a group comprising the other teams like Zimbabwe, West Indies and Australia. India stunned everyone by beating the formidable West Indies team by 34 runs in its opening match and then beat the weaker team Zimbabwe by 5 wickets in the second match. India won 4 of its group matches in the tournament, while losing two. In the knock-out level, India beat the England team in the Semi-Final by a margin of 6 wickets and went on to meet West Indies in the Final. The Final of World Cup Cricket, 1983 is considered as a classic One-Day match. After being bowled out for a mere 183 runs, India successfully restricted the West Indies team to only 140 and thus clinched the coveted championship title in the World Cup Cricket, 1983 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev.

World Cup Cricket, 1987
World Cup Cricket moved out of England for the first time in 1987, with India and Pakistan co-hosting this edition of the World Cup. Indian Cricket Team was billed pre-tournament favourites and was widely expected to defend their title successfully in familiar conditions. India's team for the World Cup did not have some important members of the World Cup-winning squad of 1983, notably Mohinder Amarnath, Syed Kirmani, Madan Lal, Yashpal Sharma and Sandeep Patil, but all-rounder Kapil Dev once again led the side, which included world-class batsmen Sunil Gavaskar, who was to retire from all forms of cricket after the tournament. Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Dilip Vengsarkar, Ravi Shastri, Mohammed Azharuddin and Kapil Dev are on other side. The bowling too was decent enough, with Kapil Dev leading the attack, supported by Ravi Shastri, Maninder Singh, Manoj Prabhakar, Chetan Sharma and Roger Binny.

The journey of India in World Cup Cricket did never see such a huge success in the following editions and failed to cross the Semi-Finals in most of the occasions.

World Cup Cricket, 1992
The 1992 World Cup ended unsuccessfully. It was co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, despite playing a Test series in Australia just prior to the World Cup. The Indian team for the World Cup had a good batting line up consisting of captain Mohammed Azharuddin, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, all rounders Kapil Dev and Ravi Shastri, Sanjay Manjrekar and a rising talent in Sachin Tendulkar. The bowling wasn't too strong though. Kapil Dev led the bowling line up, which also included Ravi Shastri, Manoj Prabhakar and Venkatapathy Raju. A new format was introduced for the 1992 World Cup, with the group format being scrapped in favour of a round-robin format, where each team would play all the other 8 teams in the tournament once, with the top 4 teams at the end of the Round-Robin stage progressing to the semifinals. It was also the first Cricket World Cup played with coloured jerseys and which had day-night matches.

World Cup Cricket, 1996
India was the co-host of the 1996 Cricket World Cup along with Pakistan and Sri Lanka and was expected to perform well at home. Their batting was their strongest point, with Sachin Tendulkar, Captain Mohammed Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Sanjay Manjrekar together forming the strongest batting line-up in the tournament. While the bowling was a bit suspect, the team had a decent set of bowlers who were good at home conditions in Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Manoj Prabhakar and Venkatapathy Raju.

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History of Indian Premier League

  

History of Indian Premier League dates back from 2008 and it is still continuing with pomp and grandeur. Indian Premier League is a Twenty20 format cricket tournament where different franchise teams participate for the title. The cricket tournament was inaugurated by BCCI with the aim to make cricket more interesting in India and to give an opportunity to you cricket talents to chase their goals.

Foundation of Indian Premier League
This international level cricket tournament was started in 2008 and from then it usually takes place every year in the months of April - June, especially in summer. It is currently supervised by BCCI Vice-President Ranjib Biswal, who serves as the League's Chairman and Commissioner of Indian Premier League.

Imitation from English Premier League
Like English Premier League, IPL is the most-watched Twenty20 cricket league in the world and also known for its huge commercial success. Indian Premier League is currently sponsored by Pepsi and thus officially known as the Pepsi Indian Premier League.

Introduction of Twenty20 Matches
Twenty-twenty cricket match was first introduced by the England and Wales cricket board in 2003. But Indian Premier League is largely credited in projecting the format of the game onto the world stage. IPL was inaugurated in 2008. During the same period Zee "Indian Cricket League" was operational. It was an enormous success. The annual tournament, played mostly in Indian summer has gone from strength to strength and is largely viewed as being the 'richest' tournament in the world cricket.

Until 2012, the Indian Premier League (IPL) was sponsored by DLF, a real estate firm and has the primary business in the development of residential, commercial and retail properties, after they paid 50 million dollars for the five year sponsorship. Pepsi took over the contract for the 2013 IPL after paying close to 4 billion rupees for the 5 year contract. In 2008, Sony has the television broadcasting rights over a ten year period. IPL is now watched across the world.

Indian Premier League in 2008
Indian Premier League season 2008 was the debut season of the cricket League, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), headquartered at Mumbai is the national governing body for all cricket activities in India. The board was formed in December 1928 as BCCI replaced Calcutta Cricket Club. BCCI is a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act. The IPL season commenced on 18th April 2008 with the final match held on 1st June 2008. The competition started with a double round robin group stage, in which each of the 8 teams played a home match and an away match against every other team. These matches were followed by two semi-finals and a final. Rajasthan Royals won the 2008 IPL by beating Chennai Super Kings, which was held in DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.

Indian Premier League in 2009
Indian Premier League season in 2009, abbreviated as IPL 2 was the second season of the cricket League. The tournament was hosted by South Africa and was played between 18th April and 24th May 2009. It was the second biggest cricket tournament in the world, after the World Cup Cricket, and was forecast to have an estimated television audience of more than 200 million people in India alone. The IPL was hosted successfully in South Africa and was hailed as an "extraordinary" accomplishment. The tournament was particularly praised for globalizing cricket and had set record television viewership. IPL2 was won by Deccan Chargers while the Royal Challengers Bangalore was declared as runners-up.

Indian Premier League in 2010
Indian Premier League season 2010, abbreviated as IPL 3 was the third season of the cricket League. Hosted by India, it had an estimated television audience of more than 200 million people in the country. Indian Premier League 2010 was played between 12 March and 25 April 2010. The tournament was won by the Chennai Super Kings, who defeated Mumbai Indians in the final, played at Mumbai. The purple cap went to Pragyan Ojha of Deccan Chargers, while the orange cap and the player of the tournament award went to Sachin Tendulkar of the Mumbai Indians. Saurabh Tiwary was declared the Under 23 success of the tournament, while the Chennai Super Kings won the Fair Play Award...

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Cricket Leagues in India

  

Cricket Leagues in India is considered as a celebration by the population of India as the game has achieved the status of religion in the country. India has a rich history of organizing several domestic level tournaments.

The history of domestic and international based Cricket leagues in India dates back to almost the same time of India's first participation in international Cricket. Most of the domestic Cricket tournaments in India have been named after the pioneers of Indian Cricket, who have made the largest contributions to the well being and development of Cricket in India.

Cricket Leagues in India are mainly organised at different levels like district level, state level, or national level and various Indian Cricket Associations are in charge of organising these tournaments. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) supervises most of the domestic level cricket leagues organised in India.

Indian Premier League
Indian Premier League is the newest and successful professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during April and May of every year by franchise teams representing Indian cities. The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The title sponsor of the IPL in 2016 was Vivo Electronics, thus the league is officially known as the Vivo Indian Premier League.

Indian Cricket League
Indian Cricket League was a private cricket league funded by Zee Entertainment Enterprises that operated between 2007 and 2009. Its two seasons included tournaments between four international teams and nine domestic teams notionally located in major Indian cities like Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Secundrabad as well as the champions Lahore Badshahs who were based in Lahore, Pakistan and Dhaka Warriors based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The matches were played in the Twenty20 format. There was also a planned domestic 50-over tournament, but this did not eventuate. While its establishment pre-dated the Indian Premier League, the ICL folded in 2009. Aside from commercial factors, the ICL lacked the support of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and International Cricket Council (ICC).

Karnataka Premier League
Karnataka Premier League is an Indian Twenty20 cricket league established by the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA). It was introduced in August, 2009. The domestic cricket competition is modeled along the lines of the popular Indian Premier League (IPL). KPL is sponsored by Karbonn Smart, is a tribute to the late president of KSCA Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar thus the league is officially known as the Karbonn Smart Karnataka Premier League.

Maharashtra Premier League
Maharashtra Premier League is another domestic and regional Indian Twenty20 cricket league established by the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA). The domestic cricket competition is modeled along the lines of the popular Indian Premier League (IPL). Just like the Indian Premier League, whose title sponsor is Sakaal Media Group.

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