Vijay Samuel Hazare was an Indian cricketer. He captained India in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953. In India's 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its first ever Test cricket win in 1951–52 against England at Madras, winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that King George VI died. He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player.
Palwankar Baloo was an Indian cricketer and political activist. In 1896, he was selected by Parmanandas Jivandas Hindu Gymkhana and played in the Bombay Quadrangular tournaments. He was employed by the Bombay Berar and Central Indian Railways, and also played for the latter's corporate cricket team. He played in the all-Indian team led by the Maharaja of Patiala during their tour of England in 1911 where Baloo's outstanding performance was praised.
Morappakam Josyam Gopalan was an Indian sportsman who represented India in cricket and hockey.
The Bombay Tournament was an annual cricket competition held in British India between 1892 and 1946. Until 1936, matches were played on either the Gymkhana Ground in Bombay or the Deccan Gymkhana Ground in Poona, and then at the Brabourne Stadium in Bombay until the tournament was terminated in 1946. The tournament was known variously as the Bombay Presidency Match, Bombay Triangular, Bombay Quadrangular, and Bombay Pentangular, depending on the number of competing teams.
Ashok Mulvantrai Mankad was an Indian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played for India in 22 Test matches.
The sport of cricket was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by sailors and traders of the English East India Company in the 17th and 18th centuries. The earliest known record of cricket in India dates from 1721 and the first club had been founded by 1792. In the 1886 and 1888 summer seasons, the Parsees cricket team toured England. In the winter of 1889–90, a team of English players was the first to tour India, followed by another in the 1892–93 season. That tour coincided with the beginning of competitive cricket in the country as the Parsees won the prestigious Bombay Presidency Match against the Europeans cricket team. By 1912–13, the tournament had become the Bombay Quadrangular with the addition of the Hindus cricket team and the Muslims cricket team. Similar tournaments began soon afterwards in Calcutta and Madras. By the end of 1918, first-class cricket was established in India.
An English cricket team led by Lord Hawke toured Ceylon and India in the Indian season of 1892–93. It was the second visit by an English team to India, after G. F. Vernon's XI in 1889–90, and the third to Ceylon.
Humphrey Plowden "H.P." Ward was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played for Oxford University (1919–1921), Europeans (India) (1921/22–1945/46), Madras (1926/27–1938/39), H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI (1931), Indian XI (1933/34) and the Madras Governor's XI (1941/42) and in one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1920. He also played for the Yorkshire Second XI in 1920, and for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from 1931 to 1935. He won an Oxford Blue for cricket from 1919 to 1921 and also played football for Oxford. He was a member of the Great Britain football squad at the 1920 Summer Olympics but did not feature in the competition.
The Madras Presidency Match was an annual first-class cricket fixture played in Madras from the 1915–16 season to 1951–52 between teams called the Indians and the Europeans. The matches were played in the Chepauk Grounds usually in mid-January around the time of Pongal festival, and the fixture was sometimes called the Pongal match. Of the 37 matches played, 33 were first-class and the Indians won 15 of those, the Europeans eight and ten were drawn.
Mothavarapu Venkata Mahipathi Naidu, popularly known as Buchi Babu Naidu, was an Indian cricket pioneer in the colonial era who organised cricket clubs for native Indians. He is considered to be the 'Father of South Indian/Madras Cricket'. He founded the annual Madras Presidency Matches, the first of which was held shortly after his death. The annual Buchi Babu Tournament is held in his honour. Two of Naidu's sons, M. Baliah Naidu and C. Ramaswami, played for the Indian national cricket team.
The Parsiscricket team was an Indian first-class cricket team which took part in the annual Bombay tournament. The team was founded by members of the Zoroastrian community in Bombay. It is affiliated to Mumbai Cricket Association.
Gerald Aste was an English cricketer based in India for many years, whose first-class career spanned the 1921/22 to 1935/36 Indian seasons. He played for various teams but mainly the Europeans. In that respect, he was unusual as he played for them in both the Madras Presidency Match and the Bombay Quadrangular.
Cyril Norman Reed was an Indian born cricketer who in addition to playing ten first-class matches in India between 1928 and 1948, also played Minor counties cricket for Bedfordshire and international cricket for the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements.
Mothavarapu Baliah Naidu was an Indian cricketer during Madras Presidency. He was born into a Telugu family as the second son of the Bhatt brothers, sons of the Buchi Babu Nayudu, "The Father of South Indian cricket", the doyen of Madras Cricket. Baliah was also a left hand medium-paced bowler and a stylish left hander who earned the tag "Madras Woolley" of the pre-war period. He represented the Hindus in the Bombay quadrangular and led Madras against Bombay in the final of the second edition of the Ranji Trophy.
Joseph Bentley Beardsell was a first-class cricketer in India where he had emigrated to from England.
Mukundrao Damodar Pai was an Indian cricketer and a member of the first Indian team that toured England in 1911 under the captaincy of Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. Pai was the first Indian cricketer to score a century on his first-class debut, playing for the Hindus against the Europeans in the Bombay Presidency game in 1906.
Kilvidi Seshachari was an Indian cricketer and a member of the first Indian cricket team to tour England in 1911. He played for the Hindus team as a wicket-keeper in the Bombay Quadrangular tournaments between 1902 and 1912. He was considered the best wicket-keeper in India in reports from the period. In addition to the Hindus cricket team in Bombay and the Indian team that toured England, Seshachari played for the Ootacamund Civilians and the Maharaja of Natore's cricket teams.
Robert Black Carrick was a Scottish first-class cricketer and an officer of the Indian Volunteers and Royal Artillery.
Arthur Congreve Miller was an English first-class cricketer and educator.
Harold Pogson was an English first-class cricketer and a colonial police officer in British India.
