Which Indian cricket team victory do you consider it as the greatest in the history of Indian cricket?

Question

As for as I am concerned, I consider 1983 World Cup victory against the then mighty West Indies is the greatest. Clive Lloyd's superb captaincy backed by fast bowlers & superb fielders. India won the dream tournament due to too many genuine

alrounders all of them did their share of good work. Kapil Dev's 175 not out against Zimbabuwe laid the foundation to the Indian cricket team's dream victory. Kapil Dev did a very good job by keeping himself at Mid wicket for the Vivian Richards World Cup Prize catch set the tempo for the greatest Indian victory.

Answer 1

Perth Test against Australia. That victory was SWEEEEEET!!

EDIT:

A brilliant end to one of the great test matches played. In fact, Sunil Gavaskar has called this India’s greatest win test match cricket in the last 37 years. And he went on to clarify that this supersedes India’s win in 1970-71 at Port of Spain vs West Indies and at the Oval against England, because he felt on those occasions India had the upper hand going into those matches.

I'd go a step further than Mr.Gavaskar. Perth signifies a new chapter in Indian cricket, a renaissance of sorts. No, don't look at the scores to know why. There wasn't a single century scored in that test, nor a single five-wicket haul which, for the uninitiated, is the bowling equivalent of a batsman's century. The absence of individual dominance over the match, in fact, could at best be a pointer to collective effort.

But the real reasons transcend the material aspects of the game. To know their significance, let me trace the events that led to this remarkable contest. The Indians came to Perth after a harrowing experience at Sydney where we lost, not to a better cricketing opponent but to a couple of lousy umpires.

Worse, Harbhajan Singh was slapped with a match-ban for an allegedly racist remark against Andrew Symonds on the field during the Sydney Test. The ban (later suspended) came from the International Cricket Council (ICC) matchreferee Mike Proctor, who, like the rest of us, saw nothing untoward on television. Furthermore, the umpires admitted they neither heard nor saw anything that was incriminatory enough to be reported for disciplinary sanctions by ICC (see sidebar).

Despite this, Proctor accepted the version of the Australian players and dismissed that of Sachin Tendulkar, the only Indian cricketer on the field at the time, aside from Singh. Was Harbhajan being framed by the Aussies because he has been tormenting Aussie skipper and leading batsman Ricky Ponting with his spin-bowling guile? Did Harbhajan, in a straight-faced exchange of swear-words with Symonds say "teri maa ki" which the latter, an Australian of aborigine extraction, heard as "monkey"? We can only speculate on the basis of unconfirmed insider whispers.

What we do know however, is that the Indian team was understandably hurt by the insult of the undeserved one-sided ban on top of the injury of the loss as a result of the one-sided umpiring at Sydney. The team had the option of packing the bags and returning home in the wake of the tensions between the opposing teams as well as over the umpires.

Instead the boys played out of their skins to beat the Australians convincingly in the next Test match barely a week later. That a team often ridiculed in the past - including by this writer - for its seemingly spineless display of cricket in crunch situations, should steel itself and fight like wounded tigers to subjugate the world's highest ranked (and worst-behaved) team speaks of a remarkable transformation.

Perth was a rite of passage, in a manner of speaking, for a bunch of boys who walked through the fire of unforeseen adversity and emerged as a team of dignified mature men.

For sure, earlier teams have tasted test match victories. For sure, many of those wins were severe contests of on-field nerve and temperament. But I'm not so sure any of them was such a gruelling test of character, such a resounding affirmation of self belief.

Just to rub in the significance of this win by the Indian team – this is the first time an overseas team (excluding the West Indies) has beaten Australia to win at Perth since 1985-86. You just get the feeling that this win has the potential to usher in a golden swan song phase of around 3 or so years for the Big Five – Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, VVS Laxman, Sourav Ganguly until their retirement.

Answer 2

i think our first 20-20 final vs pakistan in which we had a heart stopping win is the best

Answer 3

All  time best is nothing but a Victory in the 1983 World Cup.It can considered to be a world best.India is having only a small score below 170 not at all a defending score against the mighty Windies that too a 60 over game it was.Lllyod,Richards,Greenidge and Murray so many .Before the second session what the Captain of the Indian Team advice was to his boys were nothing but' we are going to be here for another 3 to 4 hrs only,kindly put in your best and the rest will be followed. Even entering into the semi final was very difficult with the Chotta Zimbabwe at that time and we won against the mighty WI in the Final,is a cream on lip to enjoy.Even today GAvaskar himself has praised about that victory I think.

Answer 4

I agree with Ashish. that Perth Win was simply delightful!

There is another. 2003 I think. World cup Semi Final against Pakistan. India won. It was a great match.

How can we forget our young Prince waving his shirt! another WC Final.

Answer 5

It was the 1983 Cricket World Cup Final, where India humbled the mighty West Indies by successfully defending a small score and won the World Cup ending the supremacy of West Indies,.

Answer 6

net west seris in under s.ganguly team made it

bcoz that is higest score india chese ever

maybe world record also

Answer 7

i think ur right coz winning the world cup is really a big thing