india won first world cup in cricket in 2007.
india won first world cup in cricket in 2007.
when did india won first world cup in cricket?
2007
india has hosted or co-hosted a large number of multi-nation major international cricket tournaments, including the 1987 cricket world cup (co-hosted with pakistan), the 1996 cricket world cup (co-hosted with pakistan and sri lanka), the 2006 icc champions trophy and the 2011 cricket world cup (co-hosted with sri lanka and bangladesh). the india national cricket team has won major tournaments, including the 1983 cricket world cup in england, the 2007 icc world twenty20 in south africa, the 2011 cricket world cup (which they won by beating sri lanka in the final at home), and the 2013 icc champions trophy, and has shared the 2002 icc champions trophy with sri lanka. it had also briefly held the position of the no. 1 team in tests. the domestic competitions include the ranji trophy, the duleep trophy, the deodhar trophy, the irani trophy, and the challenger series, all of which are not widely followed, despite cricket's popularity in the country. this parallels the global situation in cricket, where the international game is more widely followed than the domestic game in all major cricketing countries. in addition, the bcci conducts the indian premier league, a domestic franchise-based twenty20 competition, during march–april every year and is extremely popular.
sport in india
as the defending champions, india went into the 2015 world cup co-hosted by australia and new zealand with high expectations and were billed pre-tournament favourites. unlike in 2007 and 2011, this time india went into the world cup on the back of poor results, with a mediocre australian tour preceding the event. despite this, it was expected that india would still do well in the world cup due to their familiarity with the australian conditions, having already spent more than 2 months there. the indian team for the 2015 world cup comprised only 4 members from the 2011 world cup-winning squad, which included captain and wicketkeeper mahendra singh dhoni, virat kohli, who was now the vice-captain of the side and one of the best batsmen in odi cricket, suresh raina and ravichandran ashwin. for the first time since the 1992 world cup, the indian world cup squad was without sachin tendulkar, who had retired from all forms of cricket in 2013, while the other stars of the 2011 world cup such as virender sehwag, yuvraj singh, gautam gambhir, harbhajan singh and zaheer khan were dropped due to poor form. despite the absence of these key performers, the indian world cup squad was still a strong side, with a power-packed batting lineup comprising kohli, dhoni, raina, destructive openers rohit sharma and shikhar dhawan and the stylish middle-order bat ajinkya rahane, and a strong bowling attack comprising pacers mohammed shami, umesh yadav, mohit sharma and bhuvneshwar kumar, supplemented by the spinners ashwin and all-rounder ravindra jadeja. the 1996 world cup format, which was also used in 2011, was used for the last time in the world cup, as the 2019 world cup would see the return of the round-robin format last used in 1992. in the group stage, india were placed in group b with arch-rivals pakistan, south africa, the west indies, minnows zimbabwe and associates ireland and the uae.
india at the cricket world cup