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SPREAD OF CRICKET
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• Cricket remained a colonial game for quite a long time.
• Cricket was established as a popular sport by white settlers (as in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies and Kenya)
• local elites who wanted to copy the habits of their colonial masters, as in India.
• British Imperial officials brought the game to the colonies.
• The first non-white club was establish in West Indies .
• Success at cricket became a measure of racial equality and political progress.
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Spread of cricket in India and west indies
• Playing cricket became a sign of superior social and racial status, and the Afro-Caribbean population was discouraged from participating in organized club cricket, which remained dominated by white plantation owners and their servants.
• Despite the exclusiveness of the white cricket elite in the West Indies, the game became hugely popular in India and West Indies.
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Frank Worrell
• The first time a black player led the West Indies Test team was in 1960 when Frank Worrell was named captain.
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First Indian Club
• The first Indian Club, The Calcutta Cricket Club was established in 1792.
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In 18th Century, • Cricket was played by British
Military men and civil servants in all white clubs and gymkhanas.
• Indians were considered to have no talent for the game and certainly not meant to play for it but they did.
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Cricket, Race and Religion• The Early Cricket history of Indian
First class cricket teams were not organized on geographical principles.
• It was based on principle of race and religion. Cricket was played for the first time in 1721 at Cambay, it was a recreational match played by English sailors.
• The first Indian club, the Calcutta Cricket Club was establish in 1792.
• Cricket was played by British military men and civil servant.
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The origin of Indian Cricket• The first Indian
Community to start playing cricket was Zoroastrian Community .
• They founded first cricket club in India in1848 at Bombay.
• Parsis built their own gymkhana to play cricket
• By 1890’s the Hindu and the Muslims also started dreaming for their gymkhanas
• The British government encouraged such racial activities.
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• Pentangular tournament had five teams in it:
The Europeans The Parsis The Hindus The Muslims The Rest
Above picture is one of the Gymkhana Cricket Club
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Oriental Cricket Club• The Parsis founded the First Indian Cricket
Club, the Oriental Cricket Club in 1848. • They were funded and sponsored by Tatas
and Wadias.• They got no help from the whites.
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Quadrangular And Pentangular
• Ranji Trophy was initially named Quadrangular because it was played by 4 teams:
• Europeans• Parsis• Hindus• Muslims• Later it was named Pentangular when
a fifth team was added that was Rest(Indian Christians).
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India’s First Test Captain
• C.K. Nayudu was the first India’s test captain. He was an outstanding batsman of his time. He played his first test match against England in 1932.
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First Test Match• The first test was played between
England and Australia when Australia was a white settler colony.
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History of Gymkhana Cricket• Indian cricket was organized on
communal and racial lines.• The teams represented religious
communities • The first class cricket tournament was
named as the Quadrangular.• Four teams that participated were: The Europeans The Parsis The Hindus The Muslims
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