• NAME: JEEVAN PAWAR• CLASS: 9TH D

• SUBJECT: SOCIAL STUDIES• TOPIC: HISTORY AND

EVOLUTION OF INDIAN CRCKET• TEACHER: MR. GANESH

ALATH

HISTORYAND EVOLUTIONOF INDIANCRICKET

Cricket • Cricket is a bat-and-ball game

 played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a wicket (a set of three wooden stumps) sited at each end. One team, designated the batting team, attempts to score as many runs as possible, whilst their opponents field. Each phase of play is called an innings.

Beginning Of Indian Cricket• The entire history of cricket in India and

the sub-continent as a whole is based on the existence and development of the British Raj via the East India Company.

• The British brought cricket to India in the early 1700s, with the first cricket match played in 1721.[10] In 1848, the Parsi community in Bombay formed the Oriental Cricket Club, the first cricket club to be established by Indians. After slow beginnings, the Europeans eventually invited the Parsis to play a match in 1877.[11]By 1912, the Parsis, Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims of Bombay played a quadrangular tournament with the Europeans every year.[11] In the early 1900s, some Indians went on to play for the England cricket team.

FIRST MATCH OF INDIA

In 1877 the Parsees beat the Europeans, and flushed with success, planned tours of Australia and England. Australia fell through, but in 1878 they did visit England, winning one out of 28 games; two years later they returned, winning eight out of 31 with Mehlasa Parvi taking 170 wickets at under 12.

The First Match…• In 1889 an amateur English side

travelled to India. They played almost exclusively European sides but their one defeat came against the Parsees, Pavri taking nine wickets. In 1892 they returned and suffered two defeats in 20 games - again losing to the Parsees. They also played an All-India side, but the reality was that was almost entirely made up of Europeans as well.

First Test series in India

• In 1933, the first Test series in India was played between India and England with matches in Bombay, Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Madras (now Chennai). England won the series. The Indian team continued to improve throughout the 1930s and '40s but did not achieve an international victory during this period. In the early 1940s, India didn't play any Test cricket due to the Second World War.ries 2-0.[15

India’s Cricket in 20th Century

. In 1911 and All-India side toured England under the Maharajah of Patiala - with moderate success - and by the late 1920s the performance of the side against an MCC XI led by Arthur Gilligan persuaded the ICC that they might be ready.

Formation of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)

• The one stumbling block was that India did not have a central body running the game, and so in 1928 the Board of Control for Cricket in India came into being. India were due to make their Test debut in 1930-31 but extreme nationalist sentiment and activity at the time led to the trip being cancelled and so it was at Lord's 18 months later that India joined the Test ranks.

First series as an independent country

• The team's first series as an independent country was in late 1947 against Sir Donald Bradman's Invincibles (a name given to the Australia national cricket team of that time). It was also the first Test series India played which was not against England. Australia won the five-match series 4–0, with Bradman tormenting the Indian bowling in his final Australian summer.[16]

 India subsequently played their first Test series at home not against England against the West Indies in 1948. West Indies won the 5-Test series 1-0

First series as an independent country

• India recorded their first Test victory, in their 24th match, against England at Madras (now Chennai) in 1952.[18] Later in the same year, they won their first Test series, which was against Pakistan.[19] They continued their improvement throughout the early 1950s with a series win against New Zealand in 1956. However, they did not win again in the remainder of the decade and lost badly to strong Australian and English sides. On 24 August 1959, India lost by an innings in the test to complete the only 5-0 whitewash ever inflicted by England. 

The Story Of World Cup…

With the elevation of Sri Lanka to Test status, only one place was available through qualification at the ICC Trophy, held in England in 1983. The newcomers, Zimbabwe, dominated the competition, defeating Bermuda in the final. There was a change of format, with again two groups of four, but this time they played each other twice each, thus doubling the number of matches played. The West Indies, still with Greenidge, Haynes, Richards and Lloyd at the

top of the order, and Marshall, Roberts, Garner and Holding forming a strong pace attack, were hot favorites.

INDIA WON FIRST WORLD CUP

• The 1983 Cricket World Cup (officially the Prudential World Cup) was the 3rd edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament. It was held from 9 June to 25 June 1983 in England and Wales and was won by India. Eight countries participated in the event. The 1983 World Cup was full of dramatic cricket all through the tournament. And India won the nfirst world cup and the im dia became the champions

1985–86 to 2000 :-

Bombay continued its dominance of Indian domestic cricket with only Karnataka and Delhi and some other team which were able to mount any kind of challenge during this period.

India enjoyed two international highlights. In 1971, they won a Test series in England for the first time ever, surprisingly defeating Ray Illingworth's Ashes winners. In 1983, again in England, India were surprise winners of the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

1985–86 to 2000 :-

From the 1993–94 season, the Duleep Trophy was converted from a knockout competition to a league format.

Several team names and spellings were altered during the 1990s when traditional Indian names were introduced to replace those that were associated with the British Raj. Most notably, Bombay became Mumbai and the famous venue of Madras became Chennai.

In India Duleep Trophy and Ranji Trophy became famous.

India has got the chance to take tour with many countries like Australia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, New Zealand, England, South Africa, West Indies and Zimbabwe. Most of the tours were won by India. All the matches were played in India.

21st century :-The BCCI tinkered with the Duleep Trophy

in the 2002-03 season. The original zonal teams were replaced by five new teams called Elite A, Elite B, Elite C, Plate A and Plate B. These teams were constructed from the new Elite Group and Plate Group divisions which had been introduced into the Ranji Trophy that season. However, this format lasted for only one season as it was felt that the new teams lacked a sense of identity. From the 2003-04 season, the five original zonal teams competed along with a sixth guest team which was a touring foreign team. The first guest team was England A in 2003-04.

21st century :-

Mumbai has continued its dominance of the domestic scene into the 21st century by winning the Ranji Trophy five times in the first decade.

India won the inaugural ICC World T20 in 2007.India was the first Sub-continental team to win a Test match at the WACA in January 2008 against Australia.

India won the Cricket World Cup in 2011, the first time since 1983 - they beat Sri Lanka in the final held in Mumbai.