India after the 2007WC debacle has lifted itself in almost every quarters of the game. Many changes were made in the Indian Cricket team from the year 2007. First an end was put to the then Indian Coach Greg Chappell and Gary Kirsten became the coach of TeamIndia. Captainship was changed from Rahul Dravid and was given to Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Even in the highest level changes were made. New Selection Commitee was formed and K.Shrikanth became the Chairman of the Selecton Committee.The spirit came alive after India defeated Pakistan and lifted t20-WorldCup. Preferences were given to present form and performances rather than past records and reputations.
Cricket was blossoming and spread in the form of t20 format in the year 2008 when IPL was introduced. It is the introduction of IPL which gave exposure to many new and young Indian players such as
Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Sreesanth, Ashish Nehra, Gautham Gambhir, Piyush Chawla, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rohit Sharma, Robin Uthappa, R.P. Singh, Yousuf and Irfan Pathan. These young players got the
inputs from several seniors in the team. One important fact in the IPL is that players got to know about each other foriegn players' strength and weaknesses.
These changes in the period from the year 2007 to 2010 December Team India won many home and away series under the leadership of M.S.Dhoni. After winning maiden t20-WCtitle, India won the IndianOil Cup against Pakistan 3-2 in the year 2007. India also won the final of CommonWealth Bank ODI series against Australia 2-0 in the year 2007-08. Then India won against SriLanka in SL 3-2 in the July 2008.
In the year 2009, India won the NewZealand Series in test 1-0 and ODI 3-1. India also won the following
WestIndies series in the mid-July 2009 by 2-1. India also won the Srilankan Series in Dec2009. That was the highlighting wins for India in the year 2009.It was followed by India-Bangladesh Tour in the year 2010 where India won the Test series against Bangladesh 1-0. India also won its series against SA by 2-1 in March 2010. India started to built their Team for the WC after winning the Asia Cup for the 5thTime.
India also won the successive series against Australia by 1-0 and NewZealand by 5-0 and got its confidence back.
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