2. In 1848, the Parsi community in Bombay formed the Oriental Cricket Club, the first cricket club to be established by Indians.

3. The Europeans invited the Parsis to play a match in 1877. By 1912, the Parsis, Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims of Bombay played a quadrangular tournament with the Europeans every year.

4. In the early 1900s, some Indians went on to play for the English cricket team. Some of them, such as Ranjitsinghji and KS Duleepsinhji were greatly appreciated by the British and their names went on to be used for the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy-two of the major domestic tournaments in India.

In 1911, an Indian team went on their first official tour of England to play against English county teams.

5. India was invited into The Imperial Cricket Council in 1926 and made its debut as a Test-cricket-playing-nation in 1932 led by CK Nayudu. The match was given Test status despite being only 3 days in length. The team was defeated by 158 runs.

6. The Indian team did not achieve an international victory in the 1930s and ’40s.  The team’s first series as an independent country was in 1948 against Sir Donald Bradman’s  Australian cricket team. Australia won the five-match series, 4-0.

7. India recorded their first Test victory in 1952 at Madras  against England.  In the year 1952, Indian cricket team won its first Test series, which was against Pakistan.

8. In 1970s, India produced world class spin bowlers  called the  Indian spin quartet - Bishen Singh Bedi, E.A.S. Prasanna, BS Chandrasekhar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan who started collapsing  the opposing batting lineups.

9. 1970s also saw the emergence of two of India’s best ever batsmen, Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath. These players were responsible for the back-to-back series wins in 1971 in the West Indies and in England, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar.

10.One-Day Inter- national cricket was created in 1971, but India was not strong in because most of its batsmen were known for their defense-based approaches to batting. India began as a weak team in ODIs and did not manage to qualify for the second round in the first two editions of the Cricket World Cup.