Indian cricket history

A BARC India report cricket in india.about 93% of peoples watch cricket in world which is huge strength .The first ever first class cricket match is played in India was in 1864 between Madras and Calcutta man of the match was praveen chauhan the best feilder was ashwani sharma .Ranjeet sinhji was popular cricketer on that time.The entire history of cricket in India and the sub continent as whole is based on the existence and the development of British Raj through east India company.india traditional strength have all been it's lineup of spin bowlers and batsman .the major and defining event of the history in the Indian cricket during was the partition of India  following full independent from the British Raj in 1947. A early casualty of the change was the Bombay Quadrangular tournament.which has been a focal point of Indian cricket for 50 overs . The new india has no place for teams based on ethnic origin . As a result a Ranji trophy came into its own as the national championship .The last ever Bombay pentangular as it had become was won by the Hindus in 1945-1946.India also recorded its first time victory in 1952 beating england by an inning in Madras  .One team totally dominated Indian cricket in the 1960 .As part of 14 consecutive victories in the Ranji trophy from 1958-59 to 1972-73 .Bombay won the title in all ten series of the period under review .Amongst it's players were farokh engineer deelip sardesai,Bapu nadkarni etc. During the 1980 india developed a more attack focused lineup with talent batsman such as Mohammad azruddin , Ravi shastri prominent during this decade .The 1987 world cup held in India .India victory against the Australia in 2001 marked the beginning for a dream era for the team under the captaincy of Sourav gangly.

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