Cricket: India towards Dominance

Just two years back Indian cricket was going through rough time in both form of Cricket Test Match and One day International. In every series players look as if they are playing for themselves, it was visible that they are divided in groups just to have there place secure in the National team not performing on the ground consistently and media treated cricketers as star whether they perform or fail ,that’s why cricketers who was playing for country always put themselves above the game, resulting Indian cricket was on downfall and individual were making records but India’s ranking in both form of Cricket was fluctuating somewhere in between fifth to sixth place, despite the fact that India is a cricket crazy country and it’s team should had been among the top three places. Even Selectors were finding its tough not only to name Captain of team for series after series but also trying to have best Coach available for team and keep on looking for former International players as Coach but nothing was proving good for Indian Cricket. Senior players like Rahul Dravid named by media The Wall, Sourav Ganguly named as Prince of Calcutta, Sachin Tendulkar named as Master Blaster, Anil Kumble as Jumbo, Harbhajan Singh as Turbunator, Varinder Sehwag as prince of najafgarh and unfortunately they are named with there performances in some matches but there inclusion in the team had never prove to be fruitful for India to improve there ranking.
World Cup 2007 which was played in West Indies from 13th March to 28th April,2007 India had send its star studded team and everybody was hoping and placing that team just like Kapil Dev team which had created history by defeating West Indies in a very low scorning final in the 1983 World Cup which was never ever imagine by anyone that India can do this as India had very poor record in one day international and in the World Cup 2007 India’s performance in preliminary round was so much pathetic that they even lost from Bangladesh match played between both the team on 17th March,2007 India made while playing first 191 runs all out in 49.3 overs and Bangladesh made 192 runs loosing five wickets in 48.3 overs ,it make India’s chances very dim to enter in next round as India was able to beat only Bermunda but lost to Sri lanka,There was very uproar on the performance of Indian Cricket Team in India.
Then came the turnaround in Indian Cricket when all the Stars (Senior Players) either withdraw there name to represent India for inaugural T20 world cup which was schedule to held in South Africa, 2007 or selector not pick them on the name of rest and send the team which was full of youngsters and newcomers, even named Captain Mahender Singh Doni was also not very famous. Indian players played brilliantly there and won the world cup. After T-20 World Cup India keep on performing consistently series after series and improving its ranking in ICC cricket ranking in both form of cricket that is Test Matches and One Day International ranking .Indian Cricket team start defeating in Test Matches teams like Australia, England and Srilanka which was treated very strong teams in world cricket and not easy to defeat them as in a test match for winning a Match team has to take twenty wickets in five days, make good score, field good, should play with planning, mentally strong and must have patience. In One day International Indian Cricket team beat Australia, Srilanka, England, South Africa and presently five matches one day series between India and Srilanka is on and India have taken 3-0 undefeatable lead by defeating yesterday Srilanka in third One Day International. Current ICC ranking in both form cricket is as below:-

Test Match

Team............Matches...........Points...............Rating
1......Australia.........38...............4777..................126
2......South Africa......41...............4951..................121
3......India.............43...............5071..................118
4......Sri Lanka.........31...............3386..................109
5......England...........41...............4238..................103
6......Pakistan..........19...............1870.................. 98
7......West Indies.......25...............2034.................. 81
8......New Zealand.......30...............2426.................. 81
9......Bangladesh........23............... 0.................. 0


And in One Day International current standing ranking is :-


Team................Matches.........Points...............Rating
1.....South Africa.......... 34..............4245.................125
2.....Australia............. 34..............4176.................123
3.....India................. 44..............5333.................121
4.....New Zealand........... 28..............3216.................115
5.....Pakistan.............. 31..............3446.................111
6.....England............... 32..............3469.................108
7.....SriLanka.............. 41..............4265.................104
8.....West Indies........... 27..............2463................. 91
9.....Bangladesh............ 38..............1730................. 46
10....Zimbabwe.............. 31.............. 686................. 22
11....Ireland............... 10.............. 190................. 19
12....Kenya................. 11.............. 0................. 0

It’s visible with the ranking that India is becoming team in the world to be reckon and giving challenge in both form of crickets top ranking team and now it’s matter of some days when India will be as world Champion considering cricket team’s present strength.