India is the land of cricket, amazing cricket grounds,
talented cricketers. It is also one of the nations who have lots of top
international rated batsmen and bowlers. They have some amazing records of
theirs in their bags and for their ardent fans.
Real cricket or fantasy cricket,
no matter what, cricket needs the Indian fans to stay to be forever associated
with it to be in limelight forever.
Online fantasy cricket is the fantasy game which binds the cricket
fans with the real cricket. Do you play them too? We assume, like us you too
are the fans of cricket and show up your skills and knowledge of cricket
through online cricket. Let us tell you the tale of Indian cricket history:
The entire history of Indian cricket is based on the
existence and growth of the British Raj through the East India Company.
The initial days:
On 31st December 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a
Royal Charter to East India Company. Initially, it emerged as the trading
company. It later on started to conquer all the parts of India and rule it. The
East India Company was the tool to bring the game of cricket to India.
The Company founded the city of Madras in 1639,
acquired Portuguese region. It was on the west coast of India which included
the city of Bombay in 1661. In 1690, an Anglo-Mughal treaty allowed English
traders to establish a trading settlement on the Hooghly River, which became
the modern Calcutta. All these places were the leading centres of cricket as
the fame of the game grew among the native people.
The first match:
The first definite mention of cricket played anywhere
in India, from a report of English sailors of the east India Company written in
1737. Reports was that cricket played at Cambay, near Baroda in 1721. The
Calcutta Cricket and Football Club came in existence by 1792, but perhaps
founded more than a decade earlier. Another club formed at Seringapatam, south
India in 1799 after the victorious British siege and the defeat of Tipu Sultan.
In 1864, a match between Madras and Calcutta was
possibly the beginning of first-class cricket in India. The British played the
Indians to form bonds with the Indians. And if the Indian influential had links
with the British, the British could have more control of India through Cricket.
The most vital game in the 19th century was the Bombay
Presidency Match which developed, first, into Bombay Triangular and later on
into Bombay Quadrangular. The match was played in 1877 first. Then sporadically
for some seasons played until at last being given first-class status in 1892-93.
An English team led by George Vernon in 1889–90 was
the first foreign team to tour India. But none of the matches that it played
regarded as first-class.
First-class cricket began in the 1892–93 season with
two matches Europeans against Parsees, at Bombay and Poona. The first match was
drawn and the in the second match Parsees won by 3 wickets. Lord Hawke
captained an English team which played four first-class matches including a
game against “All India” on 26–28 January 1893.
Happy reading and playing fantasy cricket!
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