Name: Bastions of Indian Cricket
Released: 2015-11-13

Mid Wicket Tales with Naseeruddin Shah

S1 · E19 — Bastions of Indian Cricket

S1:E19 · Bastions of Indian Cricket

Mid Wicket Tales with Naseeruddin Shah

TV Series

2015

Now playing

Bastions of Indian Cricket

Season 1 · Episode 19 · Nov 13, 2015

Cricket in India began with the British officers bringing the game to the country before the wealthy Parsis in Bombay overwhelmingly embraced the game by playing in the gymkhanas of that era. The city soon became the centre of cricketing activities in India with promising players from other communities including Hindus and Muslims joining the bandwagon in the wake of the erstwhile Bombay Quadrangular and subsequently the Pentangular. Thanks to India’s first-ever Test cricketer Ranji and other cricket-loving rulers and princes’ insistence, the erstwhile princely states of Nawanagar, Baroda and Rajasthan also emerged as one of the power centres of the game in the early decades of Ranji Trophy. Gradually the game made a southward push with Hyderabad and Karnataka also turning out to be the formidable fortresses of Indian cricket.

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Mid Wicket Tales with Naseeruddin Shah

TV Series

2015

Now playing

Bastions of Indian Cricket

Season 1 · Episode 19 · Nov 13, 2015

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