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History and Sport: The Story of Cricket
The Parsis were the first Indian community to set up a cricket club in India.
The origins of Indian cricket is to be found in Bombay and the first Indian community which started playing the game were the Parsis.
(i) This was because they were first to come into close contact with the British because of their trading interests.
(ii) They were also the first Indian community to westernize.
(iii) The Parsis founded the first Indian cricket club called the Oriental Club Bombay in 1848. The Parsis club was sponsored by rich Parsi business men like the Tatas and the Wadias.
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Mahatma Gandhi condemned the Pentangular tournament.
The name of the ICC was changed from the Imperial Cricket Conference to the International Cricket Conference.
The shift of the ICC headquarters from London to Dubai
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