SPREAD OF CRICKET

• 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.

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.

Frank Worrell

• The first time a black player led the West Indies Test team was in 1960 when Frank Worrell was named captain.

First Indian Club

• The first Indian Club, The Calcutta Cricket Club was established in 1792.

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.

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.

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.

• 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

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.

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).

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.

First Test Match• The first test was played between

England and Australia when Australia was a white settler colony.

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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