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South Africa's Cricket Return — Eden Gardens, November 1991

India vs South Africa

1991-11-10

On November 10, 1991, South Africa returned to international cricket after 22 years of apartheid-era isolation, playing India in front of more than 90,000 spectators at Eden Gardens, Calcutta. The Proteas lost by three wickets — but cricket's lost nation was back.

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Calcutta Cricket Club and the Eastern India Game in the 1910s

India

1915-01-01

While Bombay's Quadrangular dominated Indian cricket headlines in the 1910s, Calcutta Cricket Club — founded in 1792 and one of the oldest in the world — continued as the centre of cricket in eastern India, hosting touring sides through the war and providing a meeting point for the British and increasingly Indian elites of Bengal.

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