India

Captain: M.S. Dhoni
Coach: Gary Kirsten
Team Manager: Not Recorded
ODI/Test ranking: 1st (Test) 2nd (ODI)
First Test match: vs England at Lord's, London, 25-28 Jun 1932
Last Test match: vs South Africa at Durban, 26-30 Dec 2010

India Squad

Player Name Age Batting Style Bowling Style Shirt
Mahendra Dhoni (Captain) 29 Right Hand Bat Right Medium 7
Virender Sehwag (Vice-Captain) 32 Right Hand Bat Off Break 44
Ravichandran Ashwin 24 Right Hand Bat Right Arm Off Break --
Piyush Chawla 22 Left Hand Bat Leg Break --
Gautam Gambhir 29 Left Hand Bat Leg Break 5
Zaheer Khan 32 Right Hand Bat Left Medium Fast 34
Virat Kohli 22 Right Hand Bat Right Medium 18
Ashish Nehra 31 Right Hand Bat Left Arm Medium Fast 64
Munaf Patel 27 Right Hand Bat Right Medium Fast 13
Yusuf Pathan 28 Right Hand Bat Off Break 27
Suresh Raina 24 Left Hand Bat Off Break 48
Harbhajan Singh 30 Right Hand Bat Off Break 3
Yuvraj Singh 29 Left Hand Bat Slow Left Arm 12
Praveen Kumar 24 Right Hand Bat Right Medium 8
Sachin Tendulkar 37 Right Hand Bat Leg Break/Off Break 10
Player details
Full name: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Nickname: Mahi
Born: July 7, 1981, Ranchi
Current age: 29 years of age
Height: 6 ft 0 in
Team role: Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm medium
Played for: India, Asia XI, Bihar, Chennai Super Kings, Jharkhand
Player profile
There was a time when the very idea of an Indian cricketer rivalling Sachin Tendulkar in the popularity stakes bordered on the preposterous. But the advent of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his meteoric rise through the ranks did just that, with a new generation transfixed by a small-town boy whose personality and background couldn't have been more different from that of Tendulkar. Few had heard of him as a 23-year-old when he savaged a Pakistan A side in Nairobi. There had been the odd excited whispers from those who watched his big-hitting exploits in Kolkata ...

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Full name: Virender Sehwag
Nickname: None
Born: October 20, 1978, Delhi
Current age: 32 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Top-order batsman
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm offbreak
Played for: India, Asia XI, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, ICC World XI, India Blue, Leicestershire, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI
Player profile
Virender Sehwag has constructed an extraordinary career with a relentless quest, and a genius, for boundary hitting. With minimal footwork but maximum intent, he has piled Test runs at a faster pace than anyone in the history of cricket. Bowlers must always fancy their chances against a batsman who plays so many strokes; it's just that Sehwag fancies his chances against them much more. As a starry-eyed youngster from Najafgarh, where his family ran a flour mill, Sehwag grew up, like many others from his generation, wanting to be Sachin Tendulkar ...

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Player details
Full name: Ravichandran Ashwin
Nickname: None
Born: September 17, 1986, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu
Current age: 24 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Bowler
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm offbreak
Played for: India, Chennai Super Kings, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Under-14s
Player profile
A tall offspinner who bowls with a high-arm action and is studying to be an engineer, R Ashwin has some uncanny similarities with S Venkataraghavan, but for the moment the comparison should end there. Ashwin is taking his first steps in Ranji Trophy cricket. He made big strides in his debut season in 2006-07, leading the wickets tally for Tamil Nadu with 31 scalps at under 20. He was impressive the following the season with both bat and ball before a wrist injury unfortunately forced him out for four weeks in the middle of the season. He later made it ...

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Player details
Full name: Piyush Pramod Chawla
Nickname: None
Born: December 24, 1988, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Current age: 22 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Allrounder
Batting style: Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Legbreak
Played for: India, Air India, India Green, India Under-19s, Kings XI Punjab, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI, Sussex, Uttar Pradesh
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Piyush Chawla is one for early impact. As a 15-year-old he represented India Under-19 and Uttar Pradesh U-22. Before he made his first-class debut, at 17, he had already bowled Sachin Tendulkar with a googly in a Challenger Series match. In his first first-class season, he took 35 wickets and scored 224 runs to help UP win their first Ranji Trophy. In his teens he played two Test matches too, against England and South Africa. He took three wickets on ODI debut in Bangladesh in 2007, and 14 during India's tour of Ireland and England the same year ...

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Player details
Full name: Gautam Gambhir
Nickname: None
Born: October 14, 1981, Delhi
Current age: 29 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Top-order batsman
Batting style: Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Legbreak
Played for: India, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, India Red, Indian Board President's XI, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI
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Feisty and firm, capricious and correct, insatiable and insecure, Gautam Gambhir is one of the most complete batsmen of the current era. He is adept at opening in all three forms of the game. He can be more aggressive than Virender Sehwag, he can play the kind of back-to-the-wall innings that would do Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman proud, and he can accumulate without taking any risks, much like Sachin Tendulkar has been doing in the last quarter of his career. He walks down the track to the fastest of bowlers, and an unfriendly word or three ...

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Player details
Full name: Zaheer Khan
Nickname: None
Born: October 7, 1978, Shrirampur, Maharashtra
Current age: 32 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Bowler
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Left-arm fast-medium
Played for: India, Asia XI, Asia XI, Baroda, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Surrey, Worcestershire
Player profile
Zaheer Khan is an Indian fast bowler with all the traits that made the Pakistani fast bowlers a phenomenon. He swings the new ball and reverses the old, he does well on flat subcontinent pitches and relishes the helpful ones away, and he controls all three balls well - SG, Duke and Kookaburra. He might not quite have the skills of Wasim Akram, who he has often been compared to, but mentally Zaheer has become as good as Akram. He knows how to get wickets, he has an intuitive sense of when to go for the kill, and once a batsman has shown him the ...

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Player details
Full name: Virat Kohli
Nickname: None
Born: November 5, 1988, Delhi
Current age: 22 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Middle-order batsman
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm medium
Played for: India, Delhi, India Red, India Under-19s, Royal Challengers Bangalore
Player profile
An attacking player with a cool head, Virat Kohli has already earned a reputation as a level-headed and mature cricketer. Batting at his favourite No. 4 position, he has a penchant for converting his fifties into big scores, as he showed in 2005 when he single-handedly took Delhi from 70 for 4 to a first-innings lead with 251 off 431 balls against Himachal Pradesh in the Under-17 championships. Kohli made his first-class debut for Delhi in the 2006-07 Ranji Trophy and in January 2008 was named captain of the Indian U-19 squad for the ...

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Player details
Full name: Ashish Nehra
Nickname: None
Born: April 29, 1979, Delhi
Current age: 31 years of age
Height: -
Team role: Bowler
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Left-arm medium-fast
Played for: India, Asia XI, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai Indians
Player profile
Ashish Nehra brings to the popping-crease most of the virtues of a classical left-arm fast bowler - pace, accuracy, subtle variations of line and length, an ability to move the ball off the wicket and a devastating late inswinger that can harass the best. He came out of his first full tour - to Zimbabwe in 2000-01 - with his reputation as one of the most promising new-ball bowlers on the international circuit vastly enhanced, and his performance at Bulawayo played a key role in India's winning a Test outside the subcontinent for the first time ...

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Player details
Full name: Munaf Musa Patel
Nickname: None
Born: July 12, 1983, Ikhar, Gujarat
Current age: 27 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Bowler
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm medium-fast
Played for: India, Asia XI, Gujarat, India Green, Indian Board President's XI, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Rajasthan Royals
Player profile
Few medium-pacers had generated as much hype before bowling a ball in first-class, let alone international cricket as Munaf Musa Patel, the young boy from the little town of Ikhar in Bahruch, Gujarat did in early 2003. Kiran More, now chairman of selectors, had seen him bowl in the nets and sent him straight to the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai to train under TA Sekhar and Dennis Lillee. Soon he was being hailed as the fastest man in Indian cricket. Then, even as Baroda and Gujarat vied for his services, Patel chose Mumbai, after Sachin Tendulkar had ...

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Player details
Full name: Yusuf Khan Pathan
Nickname: None
Born: November 17, 1982, Baroda, Gujarat
Current age: 28 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Allrounder
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm offbreak
Played for: India, Baroda, India Green, Rajasthan Royals
Player profile
Yusuf Pathan first made his mark as a hard-hitting batsman and offspinner for the Baroda Under-16 team in the Vijay Merchant Trophy in 1999-2000. His impressive showings saw him quickly climb the rungs to the Baroda U-19 and the West Zone U-19 sides. He made his Ranji debut against Saurashtra in 2001-02, but it wasn't until the 2004-05 season, by when younger brother Irfan Pathan was donning the national colours, that he established himself as a regular in the Baroda squad. Pathan ended the 2004-05 season as Baroda's fourth-highest scorer and third ...

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Player details
Full name: Suresh Kumar Raina
Nickname: Sanu
Born: November 27, 1986, Muradnagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
Current age: 24 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Batsman
Batting style: Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm offbreak
Played for: India, Chennai Super Kings, India Blue, India Under-19s, Indian Board President's XI, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI, Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Under-16s
Player profile
Suresh Raina represents the new age Indian cricketer. An attacking left-hander who goes for the big shots with impunity and clears the field with a swashbuckling flourish when at the top of his game, Raina is also equally capable of attracting applause as an electric fielder in the circle. It has taken him five years to cement his place as an India regular, moving from a limited-overs specialist who played 98 ODIs to one who became the 12th Indian to make a Test century on debut. Raina made his Test debut in Sri Lanka as a replacement for injured ...

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Player details
Full name: Harbhajan Singh
Nickname: None
Born: July 3, 1980, Jullundur (now Jalandhar), Punjab
Current age: 30 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Bowler
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm offbreak
Played for: India, Asia XI, Lancashire, Mumbai Indians, Surrey
Player profile
A player of passion, with talent to match, Harbhajan Singh is India's most successful offspin bowler. Purists might mutter about a lack of loop and flight, but he is very much a product of his times where short boundaries, heavy bats and shorter forms afford little latitude to slow bowlers. Bowling with a windmilling, whiplash action, remodelled after he was reported for throwing, he deals by varying his length and his pace, and can turn it the other way too. His deadliest ball, however, is the one that climbs wickedly from a length, forcing a ...

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Full name: Yuvraj Singh
Nickname: None
Born: December 12, 1981, Chandigarh
Current age: 29 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Middle-order batsman
Batting style: Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Slow left-arm orthodox
Played for: India, Asia XI, Kings XI Punjab, Punjab, Yorkshire
Player profile
When all is well with Yuvraj Singh, he hits the ball as clean and long as it has ever been hit. When all is not well, he looks so awkward you forget he can hit the ball clean and long. All is well with Yuvraj more often in limited-overs cricket, where he can be effortless and brutal at the same time, than in Tests. When he started off his athleticism on the field and his canny left-arm spin made him a dream one-day player as Indian cricket went through a makeover at the turn of the century. Yuvraj's father, Yograj, who played one Test for India, was ...

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Full name: Praveenkumar Sakat Singh
Nickname: None
Born: October 2, 1986, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Current age: 24 years of age
Height: 0 m
Team role: Bowler
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm medium
Played for: India, Air India, India Red, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Uttar Pradesh
Player profile
Praveen Kumar had everything to become a domestic cricket legend: limited pace but ability to swing the ball both ways, persistence to bowl long spells, and an almost intuitive knowledge of how to take wickets on unresponsive Indian wickets. But he took his limited pace and remarkably smart application of that ability to a higher level, claiming 10 wickets in four matches in his debut ODI series, including a match-winning spell against Australia in the final of the 2007-08 CB Series. For two seasons before his ODI debut he had been ...

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Full name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Nickname: Tendlya, Little Master
Born: April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age: 37 years of age
Height: 5 ft 5 in
Team role: Top-order batsman
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak googly
Played for: India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire
Player profile
Sachin Tendulkar has been the most complete batsman of his time, the most prolific runmaker of all time, and arguably the biggest cricket icon the game has ever known. His batting is based on the purest principles: perfect balance, economy of movement, precision in stroke-making, and that intangible quality given only to geniuses: anticipation. If he doesn't have a signature stroke - the upright, back-foot punch comes close - it is because he is equally proficient at each of the full range of orthodox shots (and plenty of improvised ones as well) and ...

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Match records and statistics

Test Records
Highest total: 952/6 dec against Sri Lanka in Aug 1997
Lowest total: 42 vs England Lord's Jun 20, 1974
Largest victory: Inns & 239 runs vs Bangladesh Dhaka May 25, 2007
ICC Test Wins: ICC Test Championships won - Not recorded
ODI Records
Highest total: 414/7 (50 overs) vs Sri Lanka Rajkot Dec 15, 2009
Lowest total: 54 vs Sri Lanka Sharjah Oct 29, 2000
Largest victory: 257 runs vs Bermuda Port of Spain Mar 19, 2007
ICC ODI Wins: ICC ODI Championships won - Not recorded

Team profile

The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status. The Indian cricket team is currently ranked first (as of 5 December 2010) by the ICC in Tests and second (as of 5 December 2010) in ODIs. As of October 2010, the Indian team has played 445 Test matches, winning 108, losing 138 and drawing 198 of its games, with 1 match ending in a tie.

India has a relatively better record in One Day Internationals, winning 52% of matches played. Currently, Gary Kirsten is the head coach while Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the captain in all forms of the game. Under the leadership of Dhoni, the Indian team has set a national record for most back-to-back ODI wins (9 straight wins) and has emerged as one of the most formidable teams in international cricket. Although cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th-century and the first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in 1792, India's national cricket team did not play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's.

The team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet - Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (both off spinners), Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (a leg spinner), and Bishen Singh Bedi (a left-arm spinner). Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, the Indian team has improved its overseas form since the start of the 21st century. It won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and was runners-up in 2003 under Sourav Ganguly. India have also been the Runners in 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy, and the Joint Champions along with Sri Lanka in 2002 ICC Champions Trophy led by Sourav Ganguly in both the instances.
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