#colonial cricket

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Calcutta Cricket Club and the Parsis of Bombay — Cricket in India, 1840s

Calcutta CC / Parsi cricketers (Bombay)

1848-12-01

Cricket in 1840s India was concentrated in two cities. In Calcutta the Calcutta Cricket Club, founded in 1792 (the second-oldest cricket club in the world after MCC), continued as a European-only institution. In Bombay the Parsi community, having watched cricket on the Esplanade for decades, took up the game seriously and founded the Oriental Cricket Club in 1848 — the first organised non-European cricket club outside Britain.

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Cricket Takes Hold in the Australian Colonies — Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart in the 1840s

Tasmania vs Victoria

1846-12-16

On 11-12 February 1851 the first inter-colonial cricket match in Australia was played between Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) and Victoria at Launceston, but the cricket culture from which it grew had been put together in the 1840s — with the Melbourne Cricket Club founded in 1838, the first match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1853, and Sydney clubs playing each other from the early 1840s. Cricket was, by the end of the 1840s, the dominant summer game in every Australian colony.

#australia#tasmania#victoria