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Caste feeling was prominent in cricket in colonial India. Prove it by giving example of Palwankar Baloo.

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Palwankar Baloo was a great cricketer. His enormous cricketing talent made sure that he could not be kept out of the team, but he was never allowed to take over as captain. The reason was that he belonged to the Dalit community.

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