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The Bombay Cricket story


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Quiz Name the cricketers


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History of cricket in India

Calcutta cricket club established in 1792

Parsis Orient club Mumbai 1848

Toured England in 1886 and 1888Parsis encouraged by the British (consideredintelligent and loyal)

Parsis

made their money in opium trade

played cricket (the opium of the people)


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Pre-independence Mumbai teams

Presidency (Parsis versus English)1892-1906 26 matches 11 won byParsis, 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

PentangularReligion wise teams stopped after 1942(mainly due to Gandhiji s objections)


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Shivaji Park Gymkhana (A) open

to public in 1927


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The Maidaners

Shivaji Park maidanthrown open to publicin 1927

Produced firstcommoners in

Indian cricketVijay Manjrekar

Subash Gupte

Sobers rated Guptebetter than Warne


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The three Vijays Merchant,

Hazare and Manjrekar


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Hindus vs. Rest, 1943


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Vijay Merchant Oval 1946


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Ranji trophy

Instituted in 1934 byMaharaja of Patiala

Mumbai recorded straight

wins from 1956-1973,have won it 39 times

The Bombay cricketteam of the 1960 s couldhave easily defeated the

present Indian team,Tendulkar included RajSingh Dungarpur


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Mumbai in the Ranji trophy

Rajasthan lost seven finals (though they

had Vinoo Mankad, Surti, Gupte,

Durrani,Vijay Manjrekar and HanumantSingh)

Karnataka won in 1974 beating Mumbai in

the semi-finals


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Mumbai Ranji trophy wins

1934-1940 2

1941-1950 3

1951-1960 - 61961-1970 - 10

1971-1980 - 6

1981-1990 - 3

1991-2000 - 4

2000-2010 - 5


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Mumbai vs Gujarat, 1951 Ranji QF


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The 50 s brigade

NarenTamhane

PataudiandUmrigar

Nari Contractor


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The 60 s cricketers

AL Wadekar Tookup cricket in college in1957, was playing for

Mumbai next yearDN SardesaiMigrated from Goa toMumbai

ED Solkar Son ofgroundsman at Hindugymkhana


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Clubs and players

Dadar Union Vasu Paranjpe, SunilGavaskar, Ramnath Parker, Milind Rege

Shivaji Park Ajit Wadekar, PaddyShivalkar, Ajit Pai, Baloo Gupte, AbdulIsmail

Hindu Gymkhana Budhi Kunderan, Dilip

Sardesai, Eknath Solkar, Bapu NadkarniParsi cyclists Russi Surti, NariContractor, Farokh Engineer,Behram Irani


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Mysore v Mumbai, Ranji SF, 1967


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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


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The 70 s players

Sunil Gavaskar,Ramnath Parker,Sudhir Naik, Karsan

Ghavri,DilipVengsarkar, AshokMankad


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Discipline

Madhav Apte dropped Ramnath Kenny (a

test cricketer) for coming just 25 minutesbefore a club match

Ravi Shastri used to start at 5.30 am forpractice

Vengsarkar used to have nets 7am to

11am, Wadekar between 2.30 to 7pm


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1971 team members with Indira


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In the 80 s

Some India regulars

Ravi Shastri, Sandeep Patil, Dilip Vengsarkar

OthersLalchand Rajput, Ghulam Parker, RajuKulkarni, Chandrakant Pandit, BS Sandhu


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Mumbai v Delhi final, 1985


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Haryana v Mumbai, 1991


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The recent shift

More out-of-town players

Sahil Kukreja, Rohit Sharma, Abhishek Nayar

Talent from the suburbsBetter infrastructure

Rohit Sharma from Kandivli


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Mumbai v Baroda, SF 2007

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