india played first cricket test match in 1983.
when did india play first cricket test match?
1983
although cricket was introduced to india by european merchant sailors in the 18th century, and the first cricket club was established in calcutta (currently known as kolkata) in 1792, india's national cricket team did not play its first test match until 25 june 1932 at lord's, becoming the sixth team to be granted test cricket status. in its first fifty years of international cricket, india was one of the weaker teams, winning only 35 of the first 196 test matches it played. from 1932 india had to wait until 1952, almost 20 years for its first test victory. the team, however, gained strength in the 1970s with the emergence of players such as batsmen sunil gavaskar and gundappa viswanath, all-rounder kapil dev and the indian spin quartet of erapalli prasanna, srinivas venkataraghavan, bhagwat chandrasekhar
india national cricket team
a second centenary test was played in 1980 at lord's in london, to commemorate the first test match in england, at the oval in 1880. the 1880 match was the fourth to be considered a test match, and followed three earlier matches played between england and australia in australia (including the 1877 test). the 1980 match was badly affected by rain on the first two days, and was drawn. this was the last test match commentated by john arlott.





























section::::the first cricket test match, march 1877.
centenary test