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The Indian Cricket Team is the official cricket team of India.
Cricket is not just a game but a religion in India, with millions
of Indian fans at home and abroad praying for the success
of the Indian Cricket Team. The Indian Cricket Team is one
of the strongest and most challenging cricket teams in the
world, rated at par with teams like Australia, South Africa,
England and Pakistan. The Indian cricket team is the highest
paid (in terms of sponsorships) sports team in the world.
India has produced several outstanding cricketers of the world,
who have become legends of the game itself. Among Indian cricketing
legends include the names of players like Vijay Merchant,
CK Naidu, Lala Amarnath, Erapalli Prasanna, Vinoo Mankad,
Farokh Engineer, BS Chandrasekhar, Bishen Singh Bedi, Gundappa
Viswanath, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Mohinder Amarnath, Mohammed
Azharuddin, Anil Kumble, and the world's most popular living
cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who's also a part of the India's
ICC World Cup 2007 squad.
The India Cricket Team has participated in all the ICC Cricket
World Cups since 1975. India won the 1983 World Cup, beating
the then World Champions West Indies in a low socring final
match. The team reached to the World Cup semi-finals in 1987
and 1996, and were runners-up in the 2003 ICC Cricket World
Cup in South Africa. The India cricket team has been rated
as one of the favorite contenders to lift the ICC Cricket
World Cup 2007 in the West Indies. India is placed in Group
B of the ICC World Cup 2007 groupings, along with Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh and Bermuda. The team will start its World Cup
2007 campaign against Bangladesh on March 17, 2007 in Trinidad
and Tobago.
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