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The Board of Control for Cricket in India, also known as BCCI, is the principal national governing body of the sport of cricket in India. [12] Its headquarters are situated at the Cricket Centre in Churchgate, Mumbai. [13] BCCI is the wealthiest governing body of cricket in the world. [14] [15]
The India men's national cricket team, colloquially Team India, represents India in men's international cricket.It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.
Changes recommended by the Lodha Committee included restricting full membership to state associations and limiting states to one full member, with the others becoming associate members, [3] but these have not been fully adopted by the BCCI, with existing members retaining full membership except for Cricket Club of India (Mumbai) and National ...
In 1989, the ICC was again renamed, this time to the International Cricket Council. [2] South Africa was re-elected as a full member of the ICC in 1991, with Zimbabwe elected in 1992, [3] and Bangladesh elected in 2000. [3] On 22 June 2017, Ireland and Afghanistan were granted full member (and Test) status, bringing the number of full members ...
The ICC trialed the four-day Test format until the 2019 Cricket World Cup. [27] In December 2019, Cricket Australia were considering playing four-day Tests, subject to consensus with other Test nations. [28] Later the same month, the ICC considered the possibility of making four-day Test matches mandatory for the ICC World Test Championship ...
Most Test, ODI and T20I matches take place in the form of "tours". [6] Test series can last from two to six matches, but some tours consist of only a single Test. [7] Six-match series were common in the 1970s and early 1980s, with the last six-match series to date taking place in 1997–98 season between the West Indies and England. [8]
BCCI controls professional level, hard ball cricket But amateur cricket does not have any governing body, which usually played with rubber ball. India national cricket team represents India in international cricket. It is colloquially known as "Team India". It played its first Test against England at Lord's in 1932, led by C. K. Nayudu.
The second ICC World Test Championship started on 4 August 2021 with the Pataudi Trophy series [2] and finished with Australia lifting the trophy after defeating India in the final in June 2023. The third ICC World Test Championship started on 16 June 2023 with the 2023 Ashes series and will conclude with the final in England in the summer of 2025.