Cricket in India

Cricket in India
Cricket in India
	Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Country	India
Governing body	Board of Control for Cricket in India
National teams	India Men; India Women; India U-19 Men; India U-19 Women; India A Men;
First played	1721
Clubs	10 (IPL); 5 (WPL)
National competitions
	List Senior Cricket Competition: First Class Cricket Ranji Trophy; Duleep Trophy; Irani Trophy; Senior Women's Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy; ; List A Cricket Vijay Hazare Trophy; Deodhar Trophy; Senior Women's One Day Trophy; Senior Women's One Day Inter Zonal Trophy; ; T20 Cricket Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy; Senior Women's T20 Trophy; Senior Women's T20 Inter Zonal Trophy; ; ; U-23 Cricket Competition: First Class Cricket CK Nayudu Trophy (4 day format); ; List A Cricket Mens under-23 State A Trophy; Women's under-23 One Day Trophy; ; T20 Cricket Women's under-23 T20 Trophy; ; ; U-19 Cricket Competition: First Class Cricket Cooch Behar Trophy (4 day format); ; List A Cricket Vinoo Mankad Trophy; Women's under-19 One Day Trophy; ; T20 Cricket Women's under-19 T20 Trophy; ; ; U-16 Cricket Competition: First Class Cricket Vijay Merchant Trophy; ; List A Cricket Women's under-15 One Day Trophy; ; ; University Cricket Competition: Vizzy Trophy (One Day format); ; ;
Club competitions
	List Indian Premier League (M); Women's Premier League (W); ;
International competitions
	List Men’s national team World Test Championship: Runners-up (2019-2021, 2021-2023); Cricket World Cup: Champions (1983, 2011); T20 World Cup: Champions (2007, 2024, 2026); Champions Trophy: Champions (2002, 2013, 2025); Asia Cup: Champions (1984, 1988, 1990-1991, 1955, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2023, 2025); Commonwealth Games: Group Stage (1998); Asian Games: Gold Medal (2022); ; Men’s U-19 national team Under-19 Cricket World Cup: Champions (2000, 2008, 2012, 2018, 2022, 2026); Under-19 Asia Cup: Champions (1989, 2003, 2012, 2013–14, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021); ; India A cricket team Emerging Teams Asia Cup: Champions (2013); ; Women's national team Women's Cricket World Cup: Champions (2025); Women's T20 World Cup: Runners-up (2020); Women's Asia Cup: Champions (2004, 2005-2006, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2022); Commonwealth Games: Silver Medal (2022); Asian Games: Gold Medal (2022); ; Women's U-19 national team Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup: Champions (2023, 2025); Under-19 Women's T20 Asia Cup: Champions (2024); ; India A women's cricket team Women's T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup: Champions (2023, 2026); ; ;
Audience records
Single match	465,000 (Five-day Test); India v. Pakistan at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, 16–20 February 1999
Season	1,592,543 (Total); 26,528 per match; 2017 IPL

Cricket is the most popular sport in India. It is played almost everywhere in the country. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is the governing body of cricket in India. They conduct all the domestic tournaments in India and select the players for the India national cricket team and the India women's national cricket team to represent India at international cricket.

International cricket in India does not follow a consistent pattern and is spread throughout the calendar year, unlike other cricketing teams such as Australia and England, who tour other countries during the winter and play at home during the summer. The Indian cricket team is one of the most successful cricket teams in the world, having won 2 Cricket World Cups, 3 T20 World Cups, 3 Champions Trophies and finishing runners up twice in World Test Championships. India also has won a Women's Cricket World Cup. India has hosted multiple Cricket World Cups, and will host the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup, the 2029 Champions Trophy, and the 2031 Cricket World Cup in future.

Cricket is an important part of Indian culture and top players, like Sunil Gavaskar, Mohinder Amarnath, Kapil Dev, Polly Umrigar, Bishan Singh Bedi, Lala Amarnath, Ravi Shastri, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya,Jasprit Bumrah and Sanju Samson often attain celebrity status and are some of the most influential figures in the country. Cricket is often portrayed patriotically in popular Indian films, including the Academy Award-nominated film, Lagaan, and 83, the 2021 sports drama film about India's Cricket World Cup victory in 1983. The Indian cricket team shares a long-standing rivalry with the Pakistan cricket team, and India-Pakistan matches are some of the most anticipated matches in the world, and one of the most watched television broadcasts in the world. The India–Australia cricket rivalry is an intense rivalry within the sport of cricket. The matches between these countries are known for their intensity. It is considered as one of the biggest matches in the world, and is among the most-viewed sport games.