The bombay cricket story
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The Bombay Cricket story
Quiz – Name the cricketers
History of cricket in India
• Calcutta cricket club – established in 1792
• Parsis – Orient club – Mumbai – 1848– Toured England in 1886 and 1888– Parsis encouraged by the British (considered
intelligent and loyal)
• Parsis– made their money in opium trade– played cricket (the opium of the people)
Pre-independence Mumbai teams
• Presidency (Parsis versus English) – 1892-1906 – 26 matches – 11 won by Parsis, 10 by English and 5 drawn
• Hindus joined in 1906 to make it triangular• Muslims joined in 1912 – Quadrangular• Christians, Anglo-Indians and Jews – 1929
–Pentangular• Religion wise teams stopped after 1942
(mainly due to Gandhiji’s objections)
Shivaji Park Gymkhana (A) – open to public in 1927
The Maidaners
• Shivaji Park maidan thrown open to public in 1927
• Produced first “commoners” in Indian cricket– Vijay Manjrekar– Subash Gupte
• Sobers rated Gupte better than Warne
The three Vijays – Merchant, Hazare and Manjrekar
Hindus vs. Rest, 1943
Vijay Merchant – Oval 1946
Ranji trophy
• Instituted in 1934 by Maharaja of Patiala
• Mumbai recorded straight wins from 1956-1973, have won it 39 times
• “The Bombay cricket team of the 1960’s could have easily defeated the present Indian team, Tendulkar included” – Raj Singh Dungarpur
Mumbai in the Ranji trophy
• Rajasthan lost seven finals (though they had Vinoo Mankad, Surti, Gupte, Durrani,Vijay Manjrekar and Hanumant Singh)
• Karnataka won in 1974 beating Mumbai in the semi-finals
Mumbai Ranji trophy wins
• 1934-1940 – 2• 1941-1950 – 3• 1951-1960 - 6• 1961-1970 - 10• 1971-1980 - 6• 1981-1990 - 3• 1991-2000 - 4• 2000-2010 - 5
Mumbai vs Gujarat, 1951 Ranji QF
The 50’s brigade
Naren Tamhane
Pataudi and Umrigar
Nari Contractor
The 60’s cricketers
• AL Wadekar – Took up cricket in college in 1957, was playing for Mumbai next year
• DN Sardesai – Migrated from Goa to Mumbai
• ED Solkar – Son of groundsman at Hindu gymkhana
Clubs and players
• Dadar Union – Vasu Paranjpe, Sunil Gavaskar, Ramnath Parker, Milind Rege
• Shivaji Park – Ajit Wadekar, Paddy Shivalkar, Ajit Pai, Baloo Gupte, Abdul Ismail
• Hindu Gymkhana – Budhi Kunderan, Dilip Sardesai, Eknath Solkar, Bapu Nadkarni
• Parsi cyclists – Russi Surti, Nari Contractor, Farokh Engineer,Behram Irani
Mysore v Mumbai, Ranji SF, 1967
In the 70’s
• Customs officer at Barbados: Anything to declare ?
• Dilip Sardesai: Runs maan, only runs
• Solkar: Why has the ball gone out of shape?
• Sobers: Because you keep snicking it so many times
The 70’s players
• Sunil Gavaskar, Ramnath Parker, Sudhir Naik, Karsan Ghavri,Dilip Vengsarkar, Ashok Mankad
Discipline
• Madhav Apte dropped Ramnath Kenny (a test cricketer) for coming just 25 minutes before a club match
• Ravi Shastri used to start at 5.30 am for practice
• Vengsarkar used to have nets 7am to 11am, Wadekar between 2.30 to 7pm
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1971 team members with Indira
Karnataka vs Mumbai, Ranji semis -1974
In the 80’s
• Some India regulars– Ravi Shastri, Sandeep Patil, Dilip Vengsarkar
• Others– Lalchand Rajput, Ghulam Parker, Raju
Kulkarni, Chandrakant Pandit, BS Sandhu
Mumbai v Delhi final, 1985
Haryana v Mumbai, 1991
The recent shift
• More “out-of-town” players– Sahil Kukreja, Rohit Sharma, Abhishek Nayar
• Talent from the suburbs– Better infrastructure– Rohit Sharma from Kandivli
Mumbai v Baroda, SF 2007