The first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in 1792, India's national cricket team did not play its first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's.
India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of more
than 200 Test matches they played.
The team, however, gained potency at the end of the 1970s with the emergence of
players such as Sunil
Gavaskar, Kapil
Dev and the Indian
spinner Erapalli
Prasanna
and Srinivas
Venkataraghavan (both off spinners), Bhagwat
Chandrasekhar (a leg spinner), and Bishen Singh Bedi (a left-arm spinner).
In the 1980s, India
developed a more attacking batting line-up with hard-hitting batsman such as
the Mohammed Azharuddin, Dilip
Vengsarkar and all-rounder Ravi Shastri. With the assistance of these players India won the Cricket World Cup in 1983, defeating the favorites and two-time defending
champions West Indies in the final, owing to a strong bowling performance.
In spite of this, the team did poorly in the
Test arena, including 28 succession Test matches without a victory. In 1984 aside
from gaining ground in India. India remained a weak team outside the Indian
subcontinent.
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