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Cricket in Trinidad — Queen's Park and the West Indian Game Takes Root, 1840s
Trinidad cricket clubs
1845-06-01
Cricket in Trinidad developed rapidly in the 1840s under the influence of the British colonial administration and the plantocracy, with the Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain emerging as the principal ground. The game in this era was rigidly racially stratified — played by white colonials and soldiers — but the open savannah format and the social prestige attached to cricket meant it spread gradually to the mixed-race and Afro-Caribbean community, laying the ground for the West Indian cricket revolution of the twentieth century.
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