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India and teams
According to his website, three extended periods of his fasting have been observed under control of scientific and medical teams, the first lasting 211 days in 1995 – 96, in Calicut, India, under the direction of Dr C. K. Ramachandran.
Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies ( the six Test nations at the time ), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.
The three teams are named India seniors, India A and India B or India Reds, India Greens and India Blues.
These forces consist of three teams: Juliet, India, and Mako 31.
Thimphu has 12 cricket teams and two small golf courses ; one near the India House and the other between the Tashichhoe Dzong and the National Library, known as the Royal Thimphu Golf Course ( a nine hole course ), established at the initiative of King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk in 1971.
After the defeat of the West Indies in 1995, Taylor's teams won home and away series against every Test team they played, with the exception of winning a series in India.
These were the 6 Test playing teams of that time ( namely Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan & West Indies ) and Sri Lanka & East Africa.
In decades past, legendary spin bowlers most notably the Indian spin quartet of the 1960s and 1970s, consisting of left-armer Bedi, offspinners Prasanna and Venkataraghavan, and legspinner Chandrasekhar routinely toyed with visiting teams to plot dramatic victories for India in home test matches, particularly on turning pitches in hot, humid conditions at Eden Gardens in Kolkata ( then known as Calcutta ) and Chepauk in Chennai ( then known as Madras ).
They outwitted opposing batsmen not only through line, length, and trajectory variations but also by physically and psychologically exploiting rough spots resulting from wear and tear on the playing top and cracks from increasing surface dryness as a game progressed. The Indian batsmen being superb players of spin bowling have generally relished home conditions. Also few opposition teams have fielded quality spinners with Australia having Shane Warne in the team an obvious exception. Not surprisingly building a first inning lead is crucial in matches played in India. While the Brabourne and Wankhede stadiums in Mumbai and Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi never offered nearly as much turn to spinners, winning a series in India was nevertheless quite difficult, and considered an ultimate challenge for visiting teams, as it is to this day.
India and Sri Lanka made it to the final by virtue of better run rate than Pakistan as all three teams had equal points after the preliminary round.
The help desks of a multinational corporation might thus employ, successively, teams in Kenya, Brazil, the Philippines, or India, with the only requirement fluency in the mother tongue, be it Spanish, Portuguese or English.
The new India had no place for teams based on ethnic origin.
* NKP Salve Challenger Trophy-Started as the Challenger series by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 1994-95 and later named as NKP Salve Challenger Trophy in 1998-99, the tournament features 3 teams: India senior, India A and India B playing each other.
In the main, the Ranji Trophy is composed of teams representing the states that make up India.

India and player
In 1980, playing against India, he became the first player to score a century and take ten wickets in a Test match ( Alan Davidson was the first to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a Test but that did not include a century ).
As the major player in South Asia, India always sought to promote democracy and install friendly governments in the region.
India has its own major player, ITC Limited.
A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.
Born in New South Wales, with whom he began his first class cricket career in 1984, he captained the Australian Test cricket team from 1999 to 2004, and was the most capped Test cricket player in history, with 168 appearances, until Sachin Tendulkar of India broke this record in 2010.
After the Battle of Plassey in 1757, during which the East India Company's Bengal army under Robert Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Bengal, the Company established itself as a major player in Indian affairs, and soon afterwards gained administrative rights over the regions of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, following the Battle of Buxar in 1765.
Amrish Puri (), (); 22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005 ) was a leading theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s.
A naturally aggressive player, he often helped India in difficult situations by taking the attack to the opposition.
Hussain was born in bombay, India to the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha.
That same year, Jaleco released City Connection, a platform-racer where cops chase the player around different cities in the US, UK, France, Japan and India.
Mirza is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 7 in doubles.
India is the most important foreign player in Sri Lanka.
In 1952, after Trueman's early success against India, Len Hutton commented that he needed another five years to mature as a bowler ; and it was in 1957 that Trueman returned to the fore and finally became an established England player.
A winner of seven World Titles in billiards and snooker, he is considered the best all-round billiards and snooker player India has produced.
On February 20, 2011 the band played for the first time in Bangalore city in India along with sitar player Niladri Kumar.
After a long tour of duty in India, he returned to the UK and beat everyone except Howard Staunton, whom he then helped to prepare for his victorious match against the Frenchman Saint-Amant, which established Staunton as the world's leading player.
Known for his astute tactical abilities, he is New Zealand's second-most capped test player with 111 test appearances, longest-serving and most successful captain, having led the side to 28 victories and having won Test match series ' against India, England, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
Geet Siriram Sethi ( born April 17, 1961 ) of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur ( ex-pro ) snooker player.
* Lokesh Anand, current leading shehnai player in India. www. lokeshanand. com
Uppalapu Shrinivas (), ( born February 28, 1969 ) is an Indian mandolin player of the Carnatic musical tradition of Southern India.
A good player of spin, he made 550 runs in a Test series against India in 2000 / 01.
* Hemang Badani, India and Tamil Nadu cricket player
He was named man of the series in the Border Gavaskar Trophy in 2004, to help Australia defeat India on the subcontinent for the first time in more than 30 years, and was named in early 2005 as the Australian Test player of the Year at the annual Allan Border Medal presentations.
His 25th century in the 2nd Test against India on 22 January 2006 made him the 10th player to score 25 or more centuries.

India and Mirza
He succeeded his father in India in 1530, while his half-brother Kamran Mirza, who was to become a rather bitter rival, obtained the sovereignty of Kabul and Lahore, the more northern parts of their father's empire.
* 1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
* March 23 – Claiming to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founds the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in India.
Shahrukh took away those parts of Badakhshan which his father had held, and found so many adherents, that Mirza Sulaiman, pretending to go on a pilgrimage to Makkah, left Badakhshan for Kabul, and crossing the Indus went to India in 1575 CE.
The old script by Mirza had to be reworked to create the new script of Mother India.
Henin defeated Sania Mirza from India in the first round 5 – 7, 6 – 3, 6 – 1 and Elena Baltacha in the second round, 6 – 1, 6 – 3.
* Persian Professor in Britain: Mirza Muhammed Ibrahim at the East India Company's College, 1826-1844 by Michael H. Fisher
Mirza Abul Fazl ( 1865 – 1956 ) was a native of Allahabad, India.
The court that he maintained, although somewhat decadent and arguably pretentious for someone who was effectively a pensioner of the East India Company, was home to several Urdu writers of high standing, including Mirza Ghalib, Dagh, Mumin, and Zauq.
In March 2010, The Economic Times named Mirza in the list of the " 33 women who made India proud ".
Mirza represented India at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Mirza then represented India at the Fed Cup in Shenzhen, China where they were facing Hong Kong.
On 4 February 2008, Mirza said that she would stop appearing in tennis tournaments held in India, starting with the 2008 Bangalore Open the following month, citing the series of controversies and upon advice by her manager.
Mirza was furious and accuses the All India Tennis Association ( AITA ) of using her as ' bait ' to keep Paes happy ; she originally wanted to play with Bhupathi, whom she has won 2 grand slams with.
As Defense Secretary, Mirza oversaw the 1947 war with India, as well as the Balochistan conflict.
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was born on 13 February 1835, in Qadian, India, the surviving child of twins born to an affluent family.
When the news of his claim reached India, Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, a disciple of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, was informed of it and wrote to Pigott informing him of the claim of Ahmad and requesting more information about his own claim.
* Hakeem Noor-ud-Din, first successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and renowned scholar of 19th century India
One version by Navab Mirza Aman Ali Khan Ghalib Lakhnavi was printed in 1855 and published by the Hakim Sahib Press, Calcutta, India.
Akbar Shah II ( 1760 – 1837 CE ), also known as Mirza Akbar, was the second-to-last of the Mughal emperors of India.
In 2000, three of the Miss India winners won their respective international pageants – Lara Dutta ( Miss Universe ), Priyanka Chopra ( Miss World ) and Diya Mirza ( Miss Asia-Pacific ).
* Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Messiah claimant from India, founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement of Islam
In the same year, Priyanka Chopra and Dia Mirza won their respective Miss World and Miss Asia Pacific titles which gave India a rare triple victory in the world of beauty pageants.
She came in second place at the Femina Miss India 2000 competition, behind Lara Dutta and ahead of Dia Mirza, winning the Femina Miss India World title.

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