Cricket in India
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A game of cricket in progress near the Marina promenade, Chennai
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| Country | India |
| Governing body | Board of Control for Cricket in India |
| National team | India national cricket team |
| Nickname(s) | Men in Blue |
| First played | 1947 |
| Clubs | 8 for IPL (Twenty20), 28 for First class and One Day Domestics, 5 Zonal Teams. |
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Cricket is the most popular sport in India. It is played by many people throughout the country. The Indian national cricket team won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 2011 Cricket World Cup, the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, and shared the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka. Domestic competitions include the Ranji Trophy, the Duleep Trophy, the Vijay Hazare Trophy, the Deodhar Trophy, the Irani Trophy and the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy. In addition, BCCI conducts the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 competition.
India became a member of the 'elite club' joining Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand and the West Indies in June 1932. India's first match in Lords against England attracted a massive crowd of 24,000 people as well as the King of the United Kingdom, who was also the Emperor of India
The major and defining event in the history of Indian cricket during this period was the Partition of India following full independence from the British Raj in 1947.Vikhyat Gupta was the first person in cricket history to score a triple century in his debut match in an odi.
An early casualty of change was the Bombay Quadrangular tournament, which had been a focal point of Indian cricket for over 50 years. The new India had no place for teams based on ethnic origin. As a result, the 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 1945–46.
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