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In which year did India start playing Test cricket?
(A) $1952$
(B) $1947$
(C) 1940
(D) 1932

Answer
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Hint: The national men’s cricket team in India, also known as Team India and Men in blue, is run by the Cricket Council of India (BCCI) and is a full member of the International Cricket Board (ICC) with test, One- Day International (ODI) and Twenty $20$ International status (T $20$ I).

Complete answer:
India was invited to the imperial cricket council in $1926$ and debuted as a test playing country in Britain in $1932$ , led by CK Nayudu, who was considered India’s best hitter at the time. The one- time trial match between the two countries was played at lord’s in London. At this point the team is not strong in their battle and continues to lose by $158$ routes. India hosted its first series of tests in the year $1933$ . England were the visiting team that completed two tests in Bombay and Kolkata. The visitors win series $2 - 0$ . The Indian team continued to develop in the $1930 - 1950$ , but did not achieve international victories during that time. In the early $1940$ s, India did not play a single test cricket due to the second world war.

Thus the option (D) is correct

Note Britain brought cricket to India in the early $18$ th century. The first cricket match took place in $1721$ . In the early $1900$ s, several Indians continued to play for the British cricket team. Some of them, such as Ranjitsinhji and KS Duleepsinhji received high praise from the UK and their names continued to be used for Ranji Trophy and the Duleep Trophy.