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Rohit Sharma is known as captain of the Indian men' s Test cricket team following Virat Kohli's exit. Australia established its nationwide first-class championship in 1892–93 when the Sheffield Shield was introduced. In Australia, the first-class groups characterize the varied states. Prior to the popularisation of scorecards, most scoring was done by men sitting on vantage points cuttings notches on tally sticks and runs were originally known as notches. According to Rowland Bowen, the earliest known scorecard templates were launched in 1776 by T. Test cricket continued to broaden during the twentieth century with the addition of the West Indies , New Zealand and India earlier than the Second World War after which Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Zimbabwe , Bangladesh , Ireland and Afghanistan in the post-war period. South Africa was banned from international cricket from 1970 to 1992 as a part of the apartheid boycott. The nineteenth century saw underarm bowling outdated by first ro