Indian cricket team, also known as Team India and the men in blue, represents India in international cricket. Governed by the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 international status. Although cricket was introduced in India European trading sailors in the 18th century and the first cricket club was founded in Calcutta in 1792, the India national cricket played their first Test match in June 25, 1932 Lord shall be granted the status of Test cricket. In its first fifty years of international cricket, India is one of the weakest teams won only 35 of 196 games played the first Test. In 1932, India had to wait until 1952, almost 20 years for its first test victory. However, this gain strength in 1970 with the emergence of players Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet Erapalli Prasanna, Srinivas Venkataraghavan, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and Bishen Singh Bedi ..

2. Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is a
former Indian cricketer and
captain, widely regarded as one
of the greatest batsmen of all
time.
 He took up cricket at the age
of eleven, made his Test debut
on 15 November 1989 against
Pakistan in Karachi at the age of
sixteen, and went on to
represent Mumbai domestically
and India internationally for
close to twenty-four years.

3. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
commonly known as M. S.
Dhoni.
He is an Indian cricketer who
captained the Indian team in
limited-overs formats from
2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket
from 2008 to 2014.
 An attacking right-handed
middle-order batsman and
wicket-keeper, he is widely
regarded as one of the greatest
finishers in limited-overs
cricket.

4. Rohit Sharma
Rohit Gurunath Sharma is an
Indian cricketer. He is a right-
handed batsman and an occasional
right-arm off break bowler who
plays for Mumbai in domestic
cricket.
He is the captain of the Mumbai
Indians in the Indian Premier
League.
Having started his international
career at the age of 20, Sharma
quickly came to be pegged by many
analysts as a permanent fixture in
the Indian cricket team in the next
decade. He made his ODI debut on
June 23, 2007 against Ireland.

5. Yuvraj Singh
•Yuvraj Singh is an Indian
international cricketer, an all-
rounder who bats left-handed in the
middle order and bowls slow left-
arm orthodox.
•He is the son of former Indian fast
bowler and Punjabi actor Yograj
Singh.
• Yuvraj has been a member of the
Indian cricket team in ODIs since
October 2000 and played his first
Test match in October 2003.

6. Kohli
Virat Kohli is an Indian
international cricketer who
currently captains the India
national team.
 A right-handed batsman often
regarded as one of the best
batsmen in the world,Kohli was
ranked eighth in ESPN's list of
world's most famous athletes in
2016.
 He plays for the Royal
Challengers Bangalore in the
Indian Premier League (IPL), and
has been the team's captain
since 2013.

7. Suresh Raina
•Suresh Raina is an Indian
professional cricketer. An
aggressive left-handed middle-
order batsman and an
occasional off-spin bowler, he is
considered as one of the best
fielders in world cricket.
•He plays for Uttar Pradesh in all
forms of domestic cricket and is
the captain of Gujarat Lions in
the Indian Premier League.
• He has also captained the
Indian cricket team and is the
second-youngest player to
captain India.

8. Ravindra Jadeja
Ravindrasinh Anirudhsinh Jadeja is
an Indian cricketer who represents
Saurashtra in first-class cricket and
the Gujarat Lions in the Indian
Premier League.
 He plays as a left-handed middle-
order batsman and slow left-arm
orthodox bowler.
He made his ODI debut against Sri
Lanka on 8 February 2009 and
scored an unbeaten 60 off 77 balls
in that match.

9. Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin is an Indian
international cricketer. He is a right-
handed batsman and right-arm off
break bowler.
 He plays for Tamil Nadu in domestic
cricket and the Rising Pune
Supergiants in the IPL. He is the
fastest Indian bowler to reach the 50-,
100-, 150- and 200-wicket mark in
Test cricket.
In 2016, he became the only Indian
after Rahul Dravid & Sachin Tendulkar
to win the ICC Cricketer of the Year
award.

10. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Bhuvneshwar Kumaris an
Indian international cricketer.
He plays for Uttar Pradesh in
domestic cricket, and Sunrisers
Hyderabad in the Indian
Premier League.
Kumar is a right-arm fast-
medium bowler who swings the
ball both ways efficiently,
especially adept at creating late
swing, and a useful lower order
right-handed batsman.
His talent was first noticed in a
T20 match against Pakistan,
where he successfully took a
three-wicket haul.

11. Umesh Yadav
Umesh Kumar Tilak Yadav
is an Indian cricketer who
currently plays for
Vidarbha cricket team and
Indian national team.
 He made his One Day
International (ODI) debut
against Zimbabwe in May
2010. The following year,
in November, Yadav made
his Test debut against the
West Indies. He was the
highest wicket taker for
India in the 2015 ICC
Cricket World Cup.