Hindus, Parsis, Muslims, Europeans
1925-12-01
Through the 1920s the Bombay Quadrangular — between teams chosen on the religious and ethnic lines of the city's communities (Hindus, Parsis, Muslims, Europeans) — was the most important annual cricket competition in India and the principal showcase for the country's emerging Test players.
India
1912-09-01
The Bombay tournament — long contested between Europeans and Parsis — became a Triangular in 1907 with the addition of the Hindus, and a Quadrangular in 1912 with the addition of the Muslims. Through the 1910s it grew into the most important regular cricket event in India and the immediate precursor of all-India representative cricket.
Parsis, Hindus, Europeans, Muslims
1907-09-15
The annual cricket tournament played in Bombay was the principal organised cricket of pre-independence India. It began in the 1890s as a Parsi-vs-European fixture, became a Triangular when the Hindus joined in 1907, and was extended into a Quadrangular when a Muslim side was admitted. Through the 1900s it was the most-watched cricket in the subcontinent and the platform on which a generation of Indian cricketers earned the right to be considered for Test cricket once India was admitted to the ICC.
Parsis v Europeans
1892-08-26
On 26 August 1892, the annual Parsis v Europeans fixture at Bombay Gymkhana was played as a two-innings match — the first first-class match on Indian soil. The match was drawn, but it formalised what would become the Bombay Tournament: the first organised cricket competition in India, founded with the encouragement of Bombay Governor Lord Harris and run continuously until 1946. Mehellasha Pavri, the Parsi fast bowler who had toured England in 1888, took several wickets.
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.