The Europeans cricket team was an Indian
first-class cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...
team which took part in the annual
Bombay tournament and
Lahore tournament
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city ...
. The team was founded by members of the European community in
Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
who played cricket at the
Bombay Gymkhana
The Bombay Gymkhana, established in 1875, is one of the premiere gentlemen clubs in the city of Mumbai, India. Bombay Gymkhana Rugby Club (rugby union) are tenants.
It is located in the Fort area of South Mumbai area and was originally built a ...
.
The Europeans were involved in the Bombay tournament from its outset in 1877, when they accepted a challenge from the
Parsees cricket team
The Parsis (''aka'' Parsees) cricket team was an Indian first-class cricket team which took part in the annual Bombay Quadrangular, Bombay tournament. The team was founded by members of the Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrian community in Bombay. It is ...
to a two-day match. At this time, the competition was known as the Presidency Match. They played first-class matches from 1892 to 1948.
There was also a European team composed of European cricketers from
Madras Presidency
The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, also known as Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the ...
who played in the
Madras Presidency Matches
The Madras Presidency Matches were annual first-class cricket matches played in Madras (now Chennai) from the 1915–16 season to 1951–52 between the cricket teams of Indians and the Europeans (i.e., Europeans who were living in India). The ...
.
Players
*See:
List of Europeans cricketers (India)
This is a list in alphabetical order of cricketers who played first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket teams, a side which played matches in India. The Europeans cricket teams played first-class cricket from 1892 until 1948, one year after ...
Sources
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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 Crick ...
, ''India's Hambledon Men'',
Tyeby Press, 1986
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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 ou ...
, ''A History of Indian Cricket'',
Andre Deutsch, 1990
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Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economics. ...
, ''A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British Sport'',
Picador
A ''picador'' (; pl. ''picadores'') is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the ''tercio de varas'', which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bullf ...
, 2001
External links
First-class matches played by Europeans at CricketArchive
Indian first-class cricket teams
Former senior cricket clubs of India
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