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<The Australian cricket team is the national men's cricket team of Australia.

It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877.

The team also plays One Day International cricket and Twenty20 International, participating in both the first ODI,

against England in the 1970–71 season ^[3] and the first Twenty20 International, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season, winning both games.

The team mainly draws its players from teams playing in the Australian domestic competitions – the Sheffield Shield, the Australian Domestic One-Day Series and the Twenty20 Big Bash.

The Australian team has played 730 Test matches, winning 341, losing 192, drawing 195 and tying two.

Australia is ranked the number-one team overall in Test cricket in terms of overall wins, win-loss ratio and wins percentage.

Australia is currently ranked fifth in the ICC Test Championship behind India, India vs Australia, Highlights Warm Up Match, World Cup 2011

South Africa, England and Sri Lanka, and led the Test rankings for a record time of 74 months from 2003 to 2009.

Australia has played 752 ODI matches, winning 464, losing 256, tying eight and with 24 ending in no-result.India vs Australia, Highlights Warm Up Match, World Cup 2011

They have led the ICC ODI Championship since its inception for all but a period of 48 days in 2007. India vs Australia, Highlights Warm Up Match, World Cup 2011

Australia have made record six World Cup final appearances (1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003 & 2007) and have won the World Cup a record four times in total; 1987 Cricket World Cup, 1999 Cricket World Cup,

2003 Cricket World Cup & 2007 Cricket World Cup. Australia is the first team to appear in 4 consecutive World Cup finals (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007),

surpassing the old record of 3 consecutive World Cup appearances by West Indies (1975, 1979 and 1983).India vs Australia, Highlights Warm Up Match, World Cup 2011

The team was undefeated in 34 consecutive World Cup matches until 19 March at the 2011 Cricket World Cup where Pakistan beat them by 4 wickets.

Australia have also won the ICC Champions Trophy twice – in 2006 and in 2009 – making them the first and the only team to become back to back winners in the Champions Trophy tournaments.

The team has also played 39 Twenty20 Internationals,making the final of the ICC World Twenty20 in 2010 before losing it to England.

The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status.

The Indian cricket team is currently ranked first by the ICC in Tests and second in ODIs.

As of October 2010, the Indian team has played 445 Test matches,

winning 108, losing 138 and drawing 198 of its games, with 1 match ending in a tie.

India has a relatively better record in One Day Internationals, winning 52% of matches played. Currently, Gary Kirsten is the head coach while Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the captain in all forms of the game.

Under the leadership of Dhoni, the Indian team has set a national record for most back-to-back ODI wins (9 straight wins)

and has emerged as one of the most formidable teams in international cricket.

Although cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th-century and the first cricket club in India was established in Calcutta in 1792,

India's national cricket team did not play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's.

They became the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status.

In their first fifty years of international cricket,

India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 test matches.^[10] The team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar,

Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet—Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (both off spinners),

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (a leg spinner), and Bishen Singh Bedi (a left-arm spinner). Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad,

the Indian team has improved its overseas form since the start of the 21st century.

It won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 under Kapil Dev and was runners-up in 2003 under Sourav Ganguly.

India have also been the Runners in 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy,

and the Joint Champions along with Sri Lanka in 2002 ICC Champions Trophy led by Sourav Ganguly in both the instances.

India also won the inaugural World Twenty20 under Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2007.

The current team contains many of the world's leading players,

including Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag who hold numerous cricketing world records.

On April 2, 2011 India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets to win the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.

They were led by captain MS Dhoni who hit the winning runs for his team.

India vs Australia, Highlights Warm Up Match, World Cup 2011

The British brought cricket to India in the early 1700s, with the first cricket match played in 1721.

In 1848, the Parsi community in Bombay formed the Oriental Cricket Club, the first cricket club to be established by Indians.

After slow beginnings,

the Europeans eventually invited the Parsis to play a match in 1877.^[13] By 1912, the Parsis,Sikhs, Hindus,

and Muslims of Bombay played a quadrangular tournament with the Europeans every year.

In the early 1900s, some Indians went on to play for the English cricket team.

Some of these, such as Ranjitsinhji and KS Duleepsinhji were greatly appreciated by the British and their names went on to be used for the Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy- two major first class tournaments in India.

In 1911, an Indian team went on their first official tour of England, but only played English county teams and not the English cricket team.

India was invited into The Imperial Cricket Council in 1926 and made its debut as a Test-cricket-playing-nation in 1932 led by CK Nayudu.

The match was given Test status despite being only 3 days in length. The team was not strong in its batting at this point and went on to lose by 158 runs.

The Indian team continued to improve throughout the 1930s and '40s but did not achieve an international victory during this period.

The team's first series as an independent country was in 1948 against Sir Donald Bradman's Invincibles (a name given to the Australian cricket team of that time).

Australia won the five-match series, 4-0.^[17]

India recorded their first Test victory against England at Madras (now Chennai) in 1952.

Later in the same year, they won their first Test series, which was against Pakistan.

They continued their improvement throughout the early 1950s with a series win against New Zealand in 1956.

However, they did not win again in the remainder of the decade and lost badly to strong Australian and English sides.

The next decade saw India's reputation develop as a team with a strong record at home.

They won their first Test series against England at home in 1961–62, and also won a home series against New Zealand.

They also managed to draw home series against Pakistan and Australia, and another series against England.

In this same period, India also won its first series outside the subcontinent,

against New Zealand in 1967–68.

The key to India's bowling in the 1970s were the Indian spin quartet - Bishen Bedi, E.A.S. Prasanna, BS Chandrasekhar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan.

This period also saw the emergence of two of India's best ever batsmen, Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath.

Indian pitches have had tendency to support spin and the spin quartet exploited this to create collapses in opposing batting lineups.

These players were responsible for the back-to-back series wins in 1971 in the West Indies and in England,

under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar. Gavaskar scored 774 runs in the West Indian series while Dilip Sardesai's 112 played a big part in their one Test win.

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