However, the team gained strength with the emerge of players like Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Indian spin legend Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan, Bhagat Chandrashekar(leg spinner) and Bishan Singh Bedi. Indian team has improved a lot in both home and overseas since the start of 21st century. It won the world cup in 1983 under Kapil Dev, and was runner up in 2003 under Sourav Ganguly. It won the second world cup title under Mahender Singh Dhoni in 2011.And first team to win world cup title in home. The current team includes Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and others who held several records.
The board of control for Cricket In India (BCCI) is the governing body for the team India and it is one of the wealthiest sporting organization in the world.It manages future tours, sponsorship and team selection.
Indian national cricket squad as per August 2013.
Captain and wicket keeper.
- Mahender Singh Dhoni, 32
Vice captain.
- Virat Kohli, 24
Opening batsman
- Shikhar Dhawan, 27
- Gautam Gambhir, 31
- Ajinkya Rahane, 25
- Virender Sehwag, 34
- Murali Vijay, 29
- Cheteshwar Pujara, 25
- Suresh Raina, 26
- Ambati Rayudu, 27
- Rohit Sharma, 26
- Sachin Tendulkar, 40
- Manoj Tiwary, 27
- Ravindra Jadeja, 24
- Irfan Pathan, 28
- Yuvraj Singh, 31
- Dinesh Karthik, 28
- Shami Ahmed,23
- Parvinder Awana, 27
- Lakshmipathy Balaji, 31
- Ashok Dinda, 39
- Zaheer Khan, 34
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 22
- Vinay Kumar, 29
- Ishant Sharma, 24
- Mohit Sharma, 24
- Jaydev Unadkat, 21
- Umesh Yadav, 25
- Ravichandran Ashwin, 26
- Piyush Chawla, 24
- Amit Mishra, 30
- Pragyan Ojha, 26
- Harbhajan Singh, 33
