ICC Cricket World Cup 2007: India Cricket Team Profile

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 Indian 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 Indian 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.

India ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 Probables

Rahul Dravid (Captain)
Sachin Tendulkar
Virender Sehwag
Anil Kumble
Yuvraj Singh
Mohammad Kaif
Harbhajan Singh
MS Dhoni
Zaheer Khan
Murali Kartik
Irfan Pathan
Gautam Gambhir
Ajit Agarkar
Suresh Raina
Venugopal Rao
R.P.Singh
S. Sreesanth
Munaf Patel
Romesh Powar

Coach: Greg Chappell
Assistant Coach And Biomechanist: Ian Frazer
Physiotherapist: Jhon Gloster
Trainer: Greg King
Analyst: S Ramkrishnan
Masseur: Ramesh Mane