This article describes the history of cricket in India from the 1985–86 season to 2000.
Events
From the 1993–94 season, the
Duleep Trophy was converted from a knockout competition to a league format.
Several team names and spellings were altered during the 1990s when traditional Indian names were introduced to replace those that were associated with the
British Raj. Most notably,
Bombay became
Mumbai and the famous venue of
Madras became
Chennai.