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Lord Hawke's XI Cricket Team In Ceylon And India In 1892–93
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. The team left Tilbury on 14 October 1892 and the tour ended in the first week of March 1893. There were four first-class matches, all of them in India, including the first match ever to involve an All-India XI. In all, they played 23 matches, of which 15 were won, 2 lost and 6 drawn. Three of the matches were played in Ceylon. Lord Hawke fell ill early on the tour (as he had on the previous tour of 1889–90) and missed matches in Ceylon. The team The team consisted of fourteen amateurs, who each paid £150 to take part: * Lord Hawke (captain) * Godfrey Foljambe * Joseph Gibbs * Arthur Gibson * Christopher Heseltine * Ledger Hill * John Hornsby * F. S. Jackson * Albert Leatham * Montague MacLean * John Robinson * George Vernon * Charles Wright * Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Hawke's XI In India 1892-93
Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power (social and political), power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the Peerage of the United Kingdom, peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles. The collective "Lords" can refer to a group or body of Peerages in the United Kingdom, peers. Etymology According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the etymology of the word can be traced back to the Old English language, Old English word ''hlāford'' which originated from ''hlāfweard'' meaning "loaf-ward" or "bread-keeper", reflecting the Germanic tribes, Germanic tribal custom of a Germanic chieftain, chieftain providing food for his followers. The appellation "lord" is primarily applied to men, while for women the appellation "lady" is used. This is no longer universal: the Lord of Mann, a title previously held by Elizabeth II, the Queen of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montague MacLean
Montague Francis MacLean (12 September 1870 – 14 January 1951) was an English first-class cricketer. The son of Sir Francis William Maclean and Mattie Sowerby, he was born at Kensington in November 1871.1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory He was educated at Eton College, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. He toured Ceylon and India with Lord Hawke's XI in 1892–93, making his debut in first-class cricket on the tour against the Parsees at Bombay. He made three further first-class appearances on the tour, scoring 63 runs on the tour, with a high score of 25. In May 1893, he made a single first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's. MacLean married Florence Pease in July 1896, with the couple having three children. MacLean was a leading figure in the coal mining industry. He was the managing director of Broomhill Collieries from 1900–05 and served as the chairman of United Collieries from 1910–32. He was a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihir Bose
Mihir Bose (born 12 January 1947) is a British Indian journalist and author. He writes a weekly "Big Sports Interview" for the ''London Evening Standard'', and also writes and broadcasts on sport and social and historical issues for several outlets including the BBC, the ''Financial Times'' and ''Sunday Times''. He was the BBC Sports Editor until 4 August 2009. He has written for most of the major UK newspapers and several business publications, presented programmes for radio and television, and written 26 books including a history of Bollywood and various books on football and cricket. Early life Bose is of Indian origin. Born in Calcutta, he grew up in Bombay, now Mumbai. He went from India to the UK in 1969 to study engineering at Loughborough University. He took up accountancy and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1974. Early career He started his journalistic career at LBC Radio, before writing for the ''Sunday Times''. He gave up accountancy in 1978 to become a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasant Raiji
Vasant Naisadrai Raiji (26 January 1920 – 13 June 2020) was an Indian first-class cricketer and cricket historian. He featured in nine first class matches between 1939 and 1950. Life and career Raiji was born in Baroda. Representing a Cricket Club of India team on his first-class debut in a festival match in 1939, he scored a duck in the first innings and just a single run in the second. In 1941-42 he opened the batting for Bombay in the Ranji Trophy, and was a reserve for the Hindus team in the 1941 Bombay Pentangular. He then moved to play for Baroda, and his two highest scores came in Baroda's victory over Maharashtra in the 1944-45 Ranji Trophy, when he made 68 and 53. His younger brother Madan also played first-class cricket for Bombay in the 1940s. At the end of Raiji's playing career, he turned to writing, and wrote several important works on early Indian cricket. He was an accountant by profession and authored two books on the subject. In the 1930s he was one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Bowen
Major Rowland Francis Bowen (27 February 1916 – 4 September 1978) was a British Army officer and a cricket researcher, historian and writer. Educated at Westminster School, Bowen received an emergency commission in April 1942 into the Indian Army. He spent many years in Egypt, Sudan and India before returning to England in 1951 and joining the Royal Engineers as a Captain, working at the War Office and ultimately being promoted to the rank of Major. He later worked for the Joint Intelligence Bureau, part of Britain's military intelligence establishment. He became involved in cricket research and history in 1958 and, in 1963, he founded the magazine ''The Cricket Quarterly'' which ran until 1970.''The Cricketer'' 1978 – obituary. He is best known for his book ''Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World'' (1970) which has been described as "indispensable" but also as "spikily controversial and vigorously wide-ranging". In John Arlott's rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Cricket In India To 1918
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. Early developments The entire history of cricket in the subcontinent (including m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muzaffarpur
Muzaffarpur () is a city located in Muzaffarpur district in the Tirhut region of the Indian state of Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Tirhut division, the Muzaffarpur district and the Muzaffarpur Railway District. It is the fourth most populpus city in Bihar. Muzaffarpur is famous for Shahi lychees and is known as the Lychee Kingdom. Shahi litchi is set to become the fourth product from Bihar, after jardalu mango, katarni rice and Magahi paan (betel leaf) to get the Geographical Indication (GI) tag. It is situated on the banks of the perennial Burhi Gandak River, Budhi Gandak River, which flows from the Someshwar Hills of the Himalayas. Etymology The current city was established in 1875 during the British Raj for administrative convenience, by dividing the Tirhut district and was named after an ''Glossary of the British Raj, aumil'', Muzaffar Khan; thus the city came to be known as ''Muzaffarpur''. History The city was founded by Muẓaffar Khan in the 18th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radella Cricket Grounds
Radella Cricket Grounds is a Cricket ground in Sri Lanka situated in Radella, a village close to Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. The grounds are also known as Dimbula Cricket Club Ground. Importance This cricket ground is considered unique, being situated at the altitude of . Radella Cricket Grounds is one of the few cricket grounds situated 4,000 ft above sea level. Its setting is described as one of the most picturesque cricket grounds in the world. History Radella Cricket Grounds is home to the Dimbula Athletic & Cricket Club, which was founded in 1856. The first recorded match played in 18–19 November 1892, between touring Lord Hawke's XI and Up-country XI. Another notable match the grounds played host to was the tour match of MCC captained by future England cricket captain Mike Smith against Up-country XI in 1962. The grounds have been used as a venue for rugby union by Dimbula Cricket Club. In fact, the finals of the Clifford Cup have been played on the grounds. Recent tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England Cricket Team
The England cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket. Since 1997, it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club (the MCC) since 1903. England, as a founding nation, is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status. Until the 1990s, Scottish and Irish players also played for England as those countries were not yet ICC members in their own right. England and Australia were the first teams to play a Test match (15–19 March 1877), and along with South Africa, these nations formed the Imperial Cricket Conference (the predecessor to today's International Cricket Council) on 15 June 1909. England and Australia also played the first ODI on 5 January 1971. England's first T20I was played on 13 June 2005, once more against Australia. , England have played 1,058 Test matches, winning 387 and lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge University Cricket Club
Cambridge University Cricket Club, first recorded in 1817, is the representative cricket club for students of the University of Cambridge. Depending on the circumstances of each individual match, the club has always been recognised as holding first-class status. The university played List A cricket in 1972 and 1974 only. It has not played top-level Twenty20 cricket. With some 1,200 members, home matches are played at Fenner's. The club has three men's teams (Blues, Crusaders and the Colleges XI) and one women's team which altogether play nearly 100 days of cricket each season. The inaugural University Match between Cambridge and Oxford University Cricket Club was played in 1827 and the match was the club's sole remaining first class fixture each season until 2020. The club has also operated as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence (Cambridge UCCE) which included players from Cambridge University and was Anglia Polytechnic University, now Anglia Rusk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge , type = Public research university , endowment = £7.121 billion (including colleges) , budget = £2.308 billion (excluding colleges) , chancellor = The Lord Sainsbury of Turville , vice_chancellor = Anthony Freeling , students = 24,450 (2020) , undergrad = 12,850 (2020) , postgrad = 11,600 (2020) , city = Cambridge , country = England , campus_type = , sporting_affiliations = The Sporting Blue , colours = Cambridge Blue , website = , logo = University of Cambridge logo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wright (cricketer)
George Henry Wright (15 November 1822 – 28 November 1893) was an English first-class cricketer and umpire. Wright was born at Sheffield in November 1822. He made his debut in first-class cricket for an England XI against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in 1847. The following year he made four first-class appearances for Sheffield, playing twice each against Manchester and Nottingham. He played first-class cricket for sides representing Yorkshire/Sheffield on nineteen occasions until 1855. Additionally, he played nine first-class matches for the North between 1851–57, five matches each for an England XI and a United Eleven until 1857, two matches each for an All-England Eleven and Manchester in 1857–58, and one appearance for the Players in the Gentlemen v Players match of 1856. In a total 44 first-class matches, Wright scored 741 runs at an average of 10.15 and a high score of 68. With the ball, he took 88 wickets at a bowling average of 10.36. He took five wick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
