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The team was not strong in their batting at this point and went on to lose by 158 runs. In 1933, the first Test series in India was played between India and England with matches in Bombay, Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Madras (now Chennai). England won the series 2–0. The Indian team continued to improve throughout the 1930s and '40s but did not achieve an international victory during this period. In the early 1940s, India didn't play any Test cricket due to the Second World War. The team's first series as an independent country was in late 1947 against Sir
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2005, and losing to England by 9 runs in 2017. India has made the semi-finals on three other occasions, in 1997, 2000, and 2009. India has also made the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 on three occasions (2009, 2010, and 2018). The British brought cricket to India in the early 1700s, with the first cricket match played in 1721. The first Indian cricket club was established by the Parsi community in Bombay, in 1848; the club played their first match against the Europeans in 1877. The first official Indian cricket team was formed in 1911 and toured England, where they
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India national cricket team record by opponent The India national cricket team represents India in international cricket and is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International (ODI) status. They first competed in international cricket in 1932, when they played against England in a three-day Test match; England won the match by 158 runs. India's first Test series as an independent country was against Australia. They secured their first Test win against England in 1952 at Madras Cricket Club Ground. , India have played 522 Test matches; they have won 145 matches, lost 160
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the disabled on 10 December 2002. This first ever Test cricket match of disabled was played between India and England. The match was of one day duration and India had won the match. The Australian cricket team used the grounds to practice prior to their clash with India in the 1996 Cricket World Cup. In 2004, the Indian Women's team played a One Day International versus the Australian Women's team at Bombay Gymkhana. In March 2010, Mumbai Indians played a practice match at the ground ahead of the IPL Season. Later in the year, Canada played a match against a
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In 1864, a Madras v. Calcutta match was arguably the start of first-class cricket in India. The British played the Indians to build relationships with the Indians and if the Indian elite had connections with the British, the British could have more control of India because of Cricket. The most important fixture in the 19th century was the Bombay Presidency Match which evolved, first, into the Bombay Triangular and then into the Bombay Quadrangular. The match was first played in 1877 and then intermittently for several seasons until finally being given first-class status in 1892-93. An English team led by
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Muttaiah Devaraj Muttaiah Devaraj (born 16 August 1938) is a former cricketer who played seven matches of first-class cricket for Ceylon between 1964 and 1967. He later became a match referee. Devaraj attended Zahira College, Colombo, where he captained the cricket team in 1958. A middle-order batsman, he toured India with the Ceylon team in 1964-65, playing in five first-class matches but not in any of the matches against India. In the match against Madras he made his highest first-class score of 85, which was also Ceylon’s highest score in the match. He later became a coach, an administrator and
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Philip Pank Philip Esmond Durrell Pank (22 April 1892 – 15 February 1966) was an Indian born English cricketer. A left-arm orthodox spin bowler, he played first-class cricket in India in 1918 and in England in 1925 and played four times for the Egypt national cricket team. Born in Jaypore in 1892, Philip Pank made his first-class debut playing for the Europeans in the Bombay Quadrangular tournament in September 1918. He played a match for England against India later in the year. He played one first-class match during the 1925 English cricket season, playing for the British Army cricket team
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sports league in the world and the biggest cricket league in the world. The Indian cricket team is also accredited with the honour of winning all the ICC tournaments under M.S. Dhoni's captaincy, which is a world record. The first ever match of first-class cricket played in India was in 1864 which was Madras vs Calcutta. Not many records exist from the match, however, it is known that the Man of the match was Praveen Chauhan. He played for Calcutta, but he was from Panipat. Furthermore, the Best fielder was Ashwani Sharma. Just like Chauhan, he was from Panipat as
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Bengal Chief Minister's XI was virtually an Indian Test side, and included Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Hanumant Singh, Chandu Borde and Bhagwat Chandrasekhar. The Commonwealth team also played a 12-a-side three-day match at Eden Gardens against the President's XII. This match was not first-class. Commonwealth XI cricket team in India in 1964–65 A Commonwealth XI cricket team visited India in November to December 1964 and played one first-class match over four days against the Bengal Chief Minister's XI at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, winning by 1 wicket. Captained by Peter Richardson, the Commonwealth team consisted of 12 players and was
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Donald Bradman's Invincibles (a name given to the Australia national cricket team of that time). It was also the first Test series India played which was not against England. Australia won the five-match series 4–0, with Bradman tormenting the Indian bowling in his final Australian summer. India subsequently played their first Test series at home not against England against the West Indies in 1948. West Indies won the 5-Test series 1–0. India recorded their first Test victory, in their 24th match, against England at Madras in 1952. Later in the same year, they won their first Test series, which was
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George Blackmore George Patrick Maxwell Blackmore (8 October 1908 – 29 January 1984) was an English cricketer who played in three first-class cricket matches in India and England. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who was born in Gillingham, Kent. Blackmore was educated Blundell's School and died in Isleworth in Middlesex in 1984 aged 75. Blackmore played one first-class match in India for the Europeans cricket team in the Bombay Pentangular Tournament of 1944/45, scoring eight runs in his only innings. He played a single Minor Counties Championship match for Kent County Cricket Club over three
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William Maples (cricketer) William Maples (13 June 1820 – 18 May 1854) was an English civil servant in the Indian civil service and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1839. He was born in Islington, London and died at Kolkata, then named Calcutta, in India. Maples was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1838. He played cricket both at school and at Cambridge, and appeared as a lower-order batsman in one match that has been judged to have been first-class, the 1839 University Match between Cambridge University and Oxford
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he would keep until 1959, having played for the county in the Minor Counties Championship eighteen times. By 1955, Joynt was on the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers list, retaining the now permanent rank of Lieutenant. He later moved to India, where he made a final appearance in first-class cricket for Madras against a touring Ceylon team in 1958 at the Madras Cricket Club Ground. He achieved his career best bowling figures in this match, taking 4/36. Joynt played rugby union for South India as a full-back and place kicker, playing in the 1963 All India & South Asia Rugby
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to India in the early 1700s, with the first cricket match played in 1721. In 1848, the Parsi community in Bombay formed the Oriental Cricket Club, the first cricket club to be established by Indians. After slow beginnings, the Europeans eventually invited the Parsis to play a match in 1877. By 1912, the Parsis, Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims of Bombay played a quadrangular tournament with the Europeans every year. In the early 1900s, some Indians went on to play for the England cricket team. Some of these, such as Ranjitsinhji and KS Duleepsinhji were greatly appreciated by the British and
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three other first cousins and a brother, Ranvirsinhji, played first-class cricket. Indravijaysinhji was briefly an officer in the British Indian Army, with the rank of lieutenant. Indravijaysinhji made his first-class cricket debut at the age of 19, during the inaugural 1934–35 edition of the Ranji Trophy. He appeared for a combined Western India side, playing little part in the game, and also played a first-class match for the Cricket Club of India against Bombay late in the season. Indravijaysinhji played two further matches for Western India in the following season of the Ranji Trophy, under the captaincy of the Nawab
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George Vernon in 1889–90 was the first foreign team to tour India but none of the matches that it played are considered first-class. First-class cricket definitely began in the 1892–93 season with two Europeans v Parsees matches, at Bombay (match drawn) and Poona (Parsees won by 3 wickets). In the same season, Lord Hawke captained an English team that played four first-class matches including a game against "All India" on 26–28 January 1893. The lists below give the leading first-class runscorers and wicket-takers in each domestic season. The first Indian ventures into international cricket were by the Parsees cricket team
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group patterned after the Organization of African Unity), and he inspired some aspects of the future Black Panther movement. In the 1967 "Black Power", Stokely Carmichael introduces black nationalism. He illustrates the prosperity of the black race in the United States as being dependent on the implementation of black sovereignty. Under his theory, black nationalism in the United States would allow blacks to socially, economically and politically be empowered in a manner that has never been plausible in America history. A black nation would work to reverse the exploitation of the black race in America, as blacks would intrinsically work
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graphic novel format by Dynamite Comics in three volumes. The script listed William Harms as co-writer and featured art by Denis Medri. The graphic novels were 64 pages long and sold for $7.99 each. The third volume contained an interview with Charlaine Harris as a bonus feature. Grave Sight Grave Sight is the first of four novels in The Harper Connelly Mysteries by American mystery author Charlaine Harris. Harper Connelly, the central character of the novel, has the ability to sense the location and last memories of dead people, a result of being struck by lightning as a young teenager.
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CHIP-FM CHIP-FM is a bilingual community radio station that operates at 101.9 FM in Fort-Coulonge, Quebec. The station serves Pontiac County in Quebec and Renfrew County in Ontario. On March 20, 1980, La Radio du Pontiac Inc. received approval from the CRTC to operate a new community FM radio station at Fort-Coulonge (101.7 MHz with effective radiated power of 3,000 watts) with rebroadcast transmitters at Chapeau (93.5 MHz with ERP of 150 watts) and Rapide-des-Joachims (94.3 MHz, and ERP of 35 watts). The station was originally launched in 1981 at 101.5 FM; it moved to 101.7 in 1993. On June
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the great captain Alfredo Fógel. Waldino Aguirre is the top scorer of Rosario Central in professionalism. He converted a total of 98 goals: 61 in the first division, 33 in the second category and four by national cups. After his retirement from the football activity, he had problems with alcohol and lived for many years as a beggar. He lived in a humble house in the Tablada neighborhood, when on October 27, 1977, he was arrested by police officers of the 11th section, accused of being involved in the abduction of a woman; Apparently Aguirre had only officiated as a
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virtutibus et vitiis" distinguished between sins against nature that were "according to the substance" (intercourse other than vaginal) and "according to the manner, as when a woman mounts." Nicholas Venette's 1770s-era sex manual praised the missionary position as the "common posture...which is most allowable and most voluptuous." Numerous sources have reported that in the United States, some states had outlawed positions other than missionary between husband and wife, or will grant a divorce to a woman whose husband makes love to her in another position. While many states formerly outlawed oral sex, anal sex, buggery, or other "unnatural" acts, no
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the Ranji Trophy Plate League semi-final in 2004/05. But after 14 years, India and Australia played a match in October 2007. Sector 16 Stadium The Sector 16 Stadium (, ) is a cricket stadium in Chandigarh, Punjab, India. It hosted its first ODI match in January 1985 and its only Test match in 1990. It has hosted only four matches. The likes of Kapil Dev, Chetan Sharma and Yograj Singh started playing cricket at the Sector 16 Stadium. It fell out of favour to the nearby Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, (Mohali) cricket ground. After the stadium in Mohali was built,
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Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium The Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium or Naya Raipur International Cricket Stadium is a cricket field in the city of Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. It is the second largest cricket stadium in india after Eden Garden cricket stadium (Kolkata) and fourth-largest cricket stadium in the world The stadium has a seating capacity of 65,000. Inaugurated in 2008, this ground hosted its first ever match in 2010, when the Canada national cricket team arrived in India and played a practice match against the Chhattisgarh state team. In 2013, the stadium was declared
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overs matches against the Sri Lankan XI. The English cricket team made a short stopover in Sri Lanka "en route" to India in 1984–85. New Zealand played two limited overs internationals against Sri Lanka in 1984–85. Sri Lanka won the first match by 4 wickets and New Zealand won the second by 7 wickets. They had to wait until 6 September 1985, where Sri Lanka recorded their first Test win, under the leadership of Duleep Mendis, by beating India, in the second match of the series by 149 runs at the Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo. The first edition of Asia
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Lovell Wooldridge Lovell William Wooldridge (9 December 1901 – 15 December 1983) was an English cricketer. He was born in Quetta, Balochistan which was then in the British Raj. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire where he played for the college cricket team. Wooldridge played for Devon in the 1926 Minor Counties Championship, making his debut against Monmouthshire. He played four further matches for Devon in 1926, playing his final Championship match against Monmouthshire. Later in 1926, Wooldridge returned to the British Raj, where he made his first-class debut for the Europeans (India) against the Marylebone Cricket Club. Four
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Indian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2007 The Indian cricket team toured Bangladesh for two Test matches and three One Day Internationals in May 2007. The first match was played on 10 May, the first of three ODIs with India defeating Bangladesh by five wickets – less than two months after Bangladesh shocked India by defeating them by five wickets in the World Cup, leading to India's early exit from the competition. India completed the series win with a steady 46-run win, thanks largely in part to Gautam Gambhir's century. The third match was abandoned due to intermittent rain, resulting
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