Early Indian Cricket Players India's national cricket team did not play its first Test match until 25th June 1932 at Lord’s. The team gained power in the 1970s with the coming out of players such as batsmen Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, Mohinder Amarnath, all-rounder Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet of Erapalli Prasanna, Srinivas Venkataraghavan, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and Bishen Singh Bedi. India was not considered strong in (One Day International) ODIs at this point and batsmen such as the captain Gavaskar were recognized for their cynical approach to batting. In 1980s, India developed a more attack-minded batting assemble Mohammed Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar and all-rounder Kapil Dev and Ravi Shastri. Other famous players of 1980s are Arun Lal, Maninder Singh, Chetan Sharma, Manoj Prabhakar, Lalchand Rajput, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Shivlal Yadav, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sanjay Manjrekar, Robin Singh and so on. In 1990s, Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble joined the team. The following year, Javagal Srinath and India's fastest bowler since Amar Singh made his debut. India's national cricket team underwent a year of change as Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid in the 1996 Cricket World Cup semi-final. Other famous players of 1990s are Vinod Kambli, Rajesh Chauhan, Venkatesh Prasad, Bhupinder Singh, Utpal Chatterjee, Ajit Agarkar, V. V. S. Laxman, Harbhajan Singh, Virender Sehwag, etc. In 2000, the former captain Azharuddin and fellow batsman Ajay Jadeja were caught up in a match-fixing scandal and given life and five years bans correspondingly. Other famous players of 2000 era are Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Mongia, Ashish Nehra, Mohammad Kaif, Murali Kartik, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Gautam Gambhir, Amit Mishra, Irfan Pathan, Dinesh Karthik, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Joginder Sharma, S. Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Robin Uthappa, Piyush Chawla, Manoj Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan and so on. Captains of India's National Cricket Team India's first captain was CK Nayudu. The other captains of India's national cricket team are: Contemporary Indian Cricket Players The contemporary players of India's national cricket team are: Records of Indian Cricket Players The Indian cricket team also holds the record sequence of 17 successful run-chases in ODIs. Individual records of the Indian Cricket Players are as follows: Indian Women Cricket Players The Women Cricketers do not receive as much accepted support or acknowledgment like the men's team. The Women's Asia Cup of 2005–06 was won by India. India reached the final of the 2017 World Cup but lost to England by 9 runs, following which the team was praised by many includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Jhulan Goswami is the world's leading ODI wicket-taker while Mithali Raj, the captain, is the leading run-scorer in ODI cricket. Indian Cricketers are all making great efforts and achieving great feats both on their home soil and in overseas during this period. |
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