Question

Write the contribution of the parsis to Indian cricket.

Answer 1

Parsis were the first Indian community that started playing cricket in the country. They founded the first Indian Cricket Club, the Oriental Cricket Club in Bombay in 1848. Parsi's clubs were funded and sponsored by Parsi business-men like the Tatas and the Wadias. They built their own gymkhana to play cricket in, after they had a quarrel with the Bombay Gymkhana, a whites-only club, over the use of a public park. The rivalry between the Perils and the racist Bombay Gymkhana bad a happy ending for these pioneers, of Indian cricket. A Parsis team beat the Bombay Gymkhana In cricket in 1889.