INDIA'S MOST POPULAR CRICKETER

1.Sachin Tendulkar

He has every one of the records that each cricketer longs for. He is known as the Expert of Cricket or rather say the "Divine force Of Cricket". Beginning his profession in the age of 16, he turned into the most youthful player to make a big appearance for India in Tests at 16 years old years and 205 days.

He is the main player to have scored 100 worldwide hundreds of years, the principal batsman to score a twofold hundred years in a One Day Global, the main player to finish in excess of 30,000 runs in worldwide cricket. In 2002, Wisden Cricketers' Chronicle positioned him the second most noteworthy Test batsman ever, behind Wear Bradman, and the second most noteworthy ODI batsman ever, behind Viv Richards.

He has won many honors in his cricketing vocation. These incorporate Arjuna Grant, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Padma Shri and the Padma Vibhushan Grant. In addition he is the most youthful beneficiary to date and the very first sportsperson to get the Bharat Ratna Grant, India's most noteworthy non military personnel grant.

2.KAPIL DEV

He is a previous Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket crew which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Hundred years in 2002, Kapil Dev was one of the best all-rounders ever. He was additionally India's public cricket trainer for a considerable length of time between October 1999 and August 2000.

Nicknamed The Haryana Tropical storm, he addressed the Haryana cricket crew in homegrown cricket. He resigned in 1994, holding the world record for the most number of wickets stepped through in Exam cricket, a record in this manner broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. At that point, he was additionally India's most noteworthy wicket taker in both significant types of cricket, Tests and ODIs. He is the main player throughout the entire existence of cricket to have taken in excess of 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored in excess of 5,000 runs in Tests, making him one of the best all-rounders to have played the game. On 8 Walk 2010, Kapil Dev was drafted into the ICC Cricket Corridor of Popularity.

3.VIJAY HAZARE

Vijay Samuel Hazare (11 March 1915 – 18 December 2004) was a Maharashtra-born Indian cricketer. Between 1951 and 1953, he captained the Indian cricket team in 14 matches. Along with Vijay Merchant, he was one of the greatest Indian batsmen of the time. He led India to its first ever Test cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) in 1951-52 against England cricket team at Madras, winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that King George VI died.

He has a trophy named after him, the Vijay Hazare Trophy, which is a zonal cricket tournament in India. He and Jasu Patel were the first cricketers to be honoured with the Padma Shri.


4.SUNIL GAVASKAR

Sunil Manohar (born 10 July 1949) is a former cricketer who represented India and the Bombay cricket team in the 1970s and 1980s. Gavaskar, widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, set world records for the most Test runs and Test centuries scored by any batsman during his career. For nearly two decades, he held the record of 34 Test centuries, which was broken in December 2005 by Sachin Tendulkar.

Gavaskar was widely admired for his fast bowling technique, with a particularly high average of 65.45 against the West Indies, who possessed the most vicious four-pronged fast bowling attack in Test history.Gavaskar received the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.

5.RAHUL DRAVID

Rahul Dravid (conceived 11 January 1973) is a previous Indian cricketer and commander, broadly viewed as quite possibly of the best batsman throughout the entire existence of cricket. Hailed as The Wall, Dravid was named one of the most outstanding five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Chronicle in 2000 and got the Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year grants at the debut ICC grants function in 2004. In December 2011, he turned into the principal non-Australian cricketer to convey the Bradman Speech in Canberra.

As of October 2012, Dravid is the fourth-most elevated run scorer in Test cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis, and is just the second Indian cricketer, after Tendulkar to score 10,000 runs both in Tests and in ODIs. In 2004, subsequent to finishing his 100 years against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he turned into the first and the main player till date to score hundred years in all the ten Test-playing nations. As of October 2012, he holds the record for the most number of gets taken by a player (non-wicket-manager) in Test cricket, with 210.

Rahul Dravid, alongside Glenn McGrath were regarded during the seventh yearly Bradman Grants capability in Sydney on 1 November 2012. Dravid has additionally been regarded with the Padma Bhushan grant, India's third most elevated regular citizen grant. 

6.Sourav Ganguly

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (conceived 8 July 1972), tenderly known as Dada is a previous Indian cricketer and commander of the Indian public group. As of now, he is a cricket pundit and Leader of the Publication Board with Wisden India. He is viewed as perhaps of India's best commander in current times. He began his profession by playing in state and school groups. At present, he is the fifth most noteworthy run scorer in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and was the third individual in history to cross the 10,000 run milestone, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq. In 2002, the Wisden Cricketers' Chronicle positioned him the 6th most noteworthy ODI batsman ever, close to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Senior member Jones and Michael Bevan. Ganguly was granted the Padma Shri in 2004, perhaps of India's most noteworthy regular citizen grant.

7.MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (conceived 7 July 1981) is an Indian cricketer and the ongoing chief of the Indian public cricket crew. He is a going after right-given center request batsman and wicket-manager. He is broadly viewed as quite possibly of the best finisher in restricted overs cricket. He made his One Day Worldwide (ODI) debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and played his most memorable Test a year after the fact against Sri Lanka.

Dhoni is the chief of India in each of the three types of the game. His Test and ODI records are awesome among all Indian chiefs to date. He assumed control over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and drove the group to its very first reciprocal ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the CB Series of 2007-08, the 2010 Asia Cup, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Prize. In the last of the 2011 World Cup, Dhoni scored 91 not out off 79 balls to take India to triumph for which he was granted the Man of the Match.

In 2009, Dhoni likewise drove the Indian group to number one situation without precedent for the ICC Test rankings. In 2013, under his captaincy, India turned into the primary group in over 40 years to whitewash Australia in a Test series. In June 2013, when India crushed Britain in the last of the Bosses Prize in Britain, Dhoni turned into the main chief to win all the three ICC prizes. He has additionally captained the Chennai Super Lords to triumph in the 2010 and 2011 times of Indian Chief Association alongside the 2010 Bosses Association Twenty20.