What is the History of the Indian cricket?

. The Indians subsequently defeated Sri Lanka 6-1 in a home series.

important part about this series was the discovery of the young talent of the team,

1971 First one-day international: Australia v England at Melbourne.

1975 First World Cup: West Indies beat Australia in final at Lord's.

g Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Gautam Gambhir and Irfan Pathan

The team also beat the Sri Lankans in the test series 2-0 to displace England

1976 First women's match at Lord's, England v Australia.

position in second place in the ICC Test rankings

1977 Centenary Test at Melbourne, with identical result to the first match: Australia beat England by 45 runs.

Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer, signs 51 of the world's leading players in defiance of the cricketing authorities.

chances of the Indian team to win the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

1978 Graham Yallop of Australia wears a protective helmet to bat in a Test match, the first player to do so.

The Indian team later clinched the test series against West Indies

1979 Packer and official cricket agree peace deal.

first Indian series win in the Carribean since Ajit Wadekar in 1971

1980 Eight-ball over abolished in Australia, making the six-ball over universal.

When playing one-day cricket, the Indian cricket team has in recent years

advent of the World Series Cup in the 1970s

1981 England beat Australia in Leeds Test, after following on with bookmakers offering odds of 500 to 1 against them winning.

1982 Sri Lanka's first Test match.

team was to don a primary and secondary colour on their uniforms.

1991 South Africa return, with a one-day international in India.

The Indian team elected to wear light-blue as their primary

Durham become the first county since Glamorgan in 1921 to attain firstclass status.

the team donned dark blue during 1992