As Cricket started in the 1600's, it was enjoyed by people of royalty such as Lords, Earls, and Dukes. This is the origin of the widespread game of Cricket for pleasure and competition. In the 1800's, Cricket was introduced to Australia and three years later the game was played regularly in Sydney. In 1838, Melbourne formed its first team but unfotunately was not able to compete until 1877. In the meantime, Australia formed it's first cricket team to tour around England. An interesting fact of the traveling team is that the team was soley made up of Aboriginal players. This initial competiton resulted in the foundation of the rivalry between Australia and England.
The first national cricket association in Australia was the Australian Cricket Council, which existed from 1842-1900. After this, the Australian board of Control for International Cricket was founded, which later became known as the International Cricket Council. Eventually, the Australian Cricket Board was developed in 1973.
Today the game is played by over half a million men, women and children in Australia alone.
This was the culmination of a 'Cricketing Voyage' that began well over 150 years ago in mid 19th century, through the genius and immense skills of a rich plethora of players abounding with natural talent and sets of illustrious Cricket Administrators.
Coming in to 'Big League' (Test Match Cricket,) was not something that happened even after 100 years for us. This is the long long story of sweat, tear and toil of our 'Cricketing Forefathers' who lit the torch and carried the flame through infancy to ultimate fruition almost 150 years later. Remember, it was the era where they did not have tools and ingredients which we feel today as vital and essential, in the form of infrastructure, continuous encouragement, assistance, lucrative awards, sponsorships and money, but had in their possession 'wealth' in the form of commitment to the Game and the feeling of "Country rather than to Self " at all times. It is from them only, the present generation has inherited its ability and planted prominently this 'Emerald Island' in the cricketing map of the world.
FOUNDATION LAID AND PLATFORM SET.
Cricket was first introduced to Ceylon (Sri Lanka now) by the Englishmen who occupied the martime provinces in 1796, the pioneers being the militia-men in Colombo, Trincomalee and Galle along with the early coffee and tea planters in the central highlands. There is no record traceable of cricket having been played in Ceylon prior to 1832, but every possibility is there that the British military units then here, would have played the game earlier. In fact the first match in Ceylon on records was between a Military XI and the Civilians of Colombo.
When the whole island came under the British Empire and its Rule by 1815, there was an influx of British here, not only as planters and military men, but even as educationists, administrators, etc. Amongst those were county players, cricket enthusiasts and even academics such as Cambridge and Oxford 'Blues'. We owe a great debt of gratitude for the splendid foundation they then laid for the game here. Thus was set the platform of our cricketing heritage.
START OF THAT GREAT LONG VOYAGE...
A leaf disease in 1865 ruined the coffee industry here almost overnight. Recovery began through 'TEA'. This brought more young men from the English public schools and universities, sportsmen and even a Lord or two. They also made 'Ceylon' the leading 'Crown Colony' of the British Empire. In fact records indicate that in an introduction by (Sir) Pelham F. Warner to a book on Ceylon Cricket it is noted that, "there is no place in the British Empire where Cricket is played more enthusiastically and in a finer spirit than in Ceylon ". The forgotten personality today in the Sri Lankan Cricket Heritage who had a very big hand for that was Ashley Walker M.A., of whom I will write later in this article. It was Kandy District and not Colombo, that first became the hub of early cricket activity in Ceylon. Athletic, Boating, Cricket and Dancing (ABCD) Club in Kandy were the pioneers of Cricket and fielded a very strong, exclusively European cricket team. In fact these men, carrying their cricketing gear and other material had to walk on foot and then back also, for miles and miles for a game that started at 7 a.m. with a 3-hour break for lunch to avoid the noon-day hot sun. These hardy planters, soldiers and sailors in playing on under-prepared rough turf, always had danger to life and limb. However, they not only kept Cricket (and Rugby) alive, but promoted it under such difficult circumstances. "The Colombo Journal" was the only newspaper in and around 1830. In September 1832 it had carried a notice towards establishing a 'Cricket Club' requested those gentlemen who may feel inclined to lend assistance towards this, to be present at the Colombo Library on Saturday the 8th September at 2 O'Clock precisely. This newspaper then had reports to say that the "Colombo Cricket Club" met the 97th Regiment in a game in Colombo in November that year, at the Army's Rifle Parade Grounds, (the present Rifle Green) . This is said to be the first recorded Cricket match played in Ceylon.
Rev. Joseph Brooke H. Bailey M.A. (Edin.) an excellent cricketer, then came to Colombo as Assistant to Head Master to the Colombo Academy (which later became Royal College Colombo). He is regarded as the 'First' to introduce Cricket to this School (and also to Ceylon Schools) and did much to make the game popular amongst the local population during his era (1835 - 38). 1864 saw the first cricket match in which a School played. It was when St. Thomas's Collegiate School Mutwal (founded in 1851) playing Small Pass Cricket Club in Dam Street (Colombo 12) . It was also the first recorded cricket match between two Ceylonese teams.
The First 'Big Match' in Ceylon on record took place in Kandy on 5th August 1867, between the Central Province and Colombo and the match is reported to have ended in a tie. 1869 saw the formation of the 'Dimboola-Agrapatana Cricket Club and soon thereafter opening of the most picturesque cricket ground, Radella. At 6,600 ft. above sea level, it is said to be the Ground at highest altitude at which cricket is often played today in the world! From 1873 onwards, this big match changing names to 'Colombo vs Up-Country' had been played annually. By then DACC along with Dickoya-Maskeliya Cricket Club (DMCC) with their Grounds at Darrawella, established themselves as the premier Cricket Clubs of Up-Country.
By then around 1000 Malay troops of the Dutch colonial army, opted to join the British forming the Ceylon Rifle Regiment and this saw the Malay Soldiers take to the game. A newspaper report indicates that they played the Civilian Members of the Colombo Cricket Club on the Rifle Regiment Grounds (site of the present Slave Island Police Barracks.) Their interest in the game saw the establishment of Malay Cricket Club, the first all Ceylonese Cricket Club, in 1871 / 72. Cricket Clubs by then had begun to appear, established mostly by English settlers and were thriving as matches came to be played regularly between them
OUR CRICKETING STALWARTS INCLUDE ..........
Number of Cricketing Stalwarts who were men of integrity, fostered the game here in its infancy providing encouragement for further advancement with time.; Their names and exploits to be named even in a nutshell, will need volumes. Hence I am compelled to limit that to a handful with reluctance.
Ashley Walker (Cambridge (1864-66) and Yorkshire) about whom I mentioned earlier, came out to Ceylon in 1876 as an Assistant to Principal G. Todd of the Colombo Academy. He had played cricket in the best company in England representing Swansea (later Glamor County CC) even against the M CC at Lord's in 1875. As their "Boarding Master" he taught the boys the game with enthusiasm. In fact he was responsible for starting the First ever Inter-School Cricket Match in Ceylon in 1879, between Royal College and St. Thomas' College, now famed as the "Battle of the Blues". Walker was also responsible for initiating the first "Europeans vs Ceylonese" Cricket Match in 1881 producing cricket of a high order, which in turn played a major role in uplifting the overall standard of play here; In fact what Lord Harris did for England Cricket, Mr. Walker did for Ceylon Cricket.
The pioneering sponsor, selector, captain and arbiter, all 4 in 1 of Ceylon Cricket was George Vanderspar (Somerset), a Dutchman. In fact His association with the M.C.C. authorities, enabled him to originate the 'Whistle Stop Matches" in Colombo for the M.C.C. (this was how the England team sailing out of the UK was known then) on its way by ship to Australia. The first International team thus to visit Ceylon was of Hon. Ivo Bligh's English team in 1882, followed by G. F. Vernon's team in 1884. The credit for initiating the idea of sending Ceylon Cricket Teams overseas (the first overseas tour was to Calcutta India in 1884) and also introducing coir matting for cricket here, belongs to this Dutchman. His efforts also saw two Ceylonese School Boys, Colvin Kelaart and Allan Raffel (both from Royal College Colombo) for the very first time being given an opportunity to play for All-Ceylon. He was also responsible for starting the Colombo - Madras annual cricket series, visiting each other in alternative years. 1889 saw the first 'Un-Official' Test against All-Ceylon, a three - day match against G. F. Vernon's English Team at the present Bogambara Grounds in Kandy.
From 1880 to about 1910, the exclusive European Colombo Cricket Club (formed in 1832 - see paragraph five above), was the dominant factor in Ceylon Cricket. Arranged by Ashley Walker, the first match of the series that continued until 1933 between Ceylonese led by A. C. Edwards and Europeans under Colombo Cricket Club and led by Ashley Walker, took place in 1881. The Colombo CC based at Galle Face Grounds, in 1894 shifted to its new location at Maitland Place in the Cinnamon Gardens area of Colombo. This made George Vanderspar to purchase the Galle face Grounds and form the Colombo Sports Club, the first proprietary Club.
Samuel Peter (S.P.) Foenander M.B.E., the eminent cricket journalist in the (1910 - 1960) period and known as 'Ceylon's Walking Wisden', rendered yeoman service to the game and helped to put Ceylon on the 'Cricket Map of the World'. In 1913, due to the untiring efforts of him and Dr. John Rockwood, a committee drawn from the Cricket Playing Clubs in Colombo (minus Colombo CC) was established to run the game in Ceylon. This turned out to be the starting point of the Ceylonese taking over the administration of Cricket in this Country from the Europeans who did the job until then. Dr. Rockwood's visit to England in 1920 at his own expense and with the help he received from Dr C. H. Gunasekera there then, led to the formation of 'Ceylon Cricket Association' in 1922 (this was liquidated in 1965). It was their effort that saw the hiring of the first professional coach, W. C. Razor - Smith from Surrey England, to improve the standards of the game in Sri Lanka.
Having learnt the rudiments from the masters, and given their natural abilities blessed with the basic ingredients required to be a natural cricketer, it was not long before the pupils got into their own. Amongst many such talented Ceylonese, the first notable perhaps was Douglas de Saram, a powerful cricketing personality. He along with his brothers Shelton, E.R. (and Fred), emulated the famous 'Grace Brothers', W.G., E.M. and G. F.(1880) by turning out together for their Country (against Australia ) in 1912.
Then came another Cricketer, Dr. C. H. Gunasekera to play a significant role in the further development and promotion of Cricket in Ceylon; He was the youngest of another quartet of 'Cricketing Brothers', D.B., E.I., V.R. and C.H. After Schooling at Royal College Colombo, he left for England in pursuit of a medical degree. If not for the World War - one that broke out, he was a certainty to gain his 'Blue' in the first year itself at Cambridge. He was later invited to play for Middlesex CC under Sir Pelham Warner and thus became the first Ceylonese to play for an English County that even won the County Championship (1920 & 1921) in his days with them there. He then became the conduit through whom the local administrators worked with the M.C.C. Helped by the formation of the Ceylon Cricket Association (C.C.A.) in 1922 as said before, many a M.C.C. team passing through Ceylon by ship, broke journey here to play a match in Colombo, which in turn further helped to promote and develop the game here. In 1946, C.C.A. sought membership for Ceylon in the Imperial Cricket Conference, without any luck.
BIRTH OF THE CEYLON CRICKET BOARD ( BCCC ).
The desirability of forming a Board of Control for Cricket in Ceylon (BCCC) came about, as a result of certain players refusing to play in the C.C.A. teams against a visiting team from India, (the Ranji Trophy Champions led by C. K. Naidu). The first proposal was made for its formation in 1939, at a committee meeting of the C.C.A. Restrictions due to the Second World War then, made them to postpone this decision till the end of the War. The Ceylon Schools' Cricket Association was born on 11th October 1946, with Rev. Cartman, Principal of Wesley College Colombo as its founder President. A historical inaugural meeting held at the Malay Sports Club Pavilion, Rifle Green Slave! Island on June 25th, 1948, saw the birth of a new controlling body for Cricket in Ceylon (BCCC) with Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu as its founder President. They then set about promoting the game in earnest and we witnessed much cricket activity in Ceylon in the next six years, that included many tours here of two-weeks duration, first by West Indies followed by Pakistan, India, Australia, and England, notable one being the initiation of the annual Gopalan Trophy matches with Madras. In 1949 at Calcutta, saw the establishment of Asian Cricket Conference, on 5th January. Ceylon together with India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaya sat together to plan out a program for the development of the game in this region.
In fact in all too short a life span, Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu achieved a miracle for Ceylon Cricket. At the height of World War II, he was the Architect and also the Builder of the First Cricket Stadium (Colombo Oval) in the short span of three years. "P. Sara" , the fond way he was popularly known as, passed in to the Ceylon Civil Services and served the British Government for nearly three decades of time. After his untimely death, BCCSL offered a Trophy in his name for Division I Clubs in 1950 / 51 season. But he will be remembered best as the person to begin the tradition of providing employment in Government Departments under his supervision to the best Public School Cricketers, such as in Tea Control and Rubber Control Departments.
Robert Senanayake is best known in Sri Lanka Cricket Circles for his long connections with the administration of the game (1957 - 1976 as the President of the BCCSL). Known as the 'Devoted Servant of Ceylon / Sri Lanka Cricket', he deviated from the family traditions and abandoned politics for Cricket and Business. It was during his tenure of Office that India sponsored Ceylon for the ICC associate membership and Ceylon was elected an 'Associate Member' on 16th July 1965. To help Ceylon soon gain thereafter ICC Full-Membership, in 1966 he initiated the first three-day Cricket tournament in this Country.
( Please note: On May 22nd 1972, Ceylon officially became the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. )
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The cricketing voyage started over 150 years ago and the adventure of Tea, about a decade later. It all began around 1865 when a leaf disease ruined almost overnight the coffee industry in then Ceylon. The coffee planters, financially broken but undaunted in spirit, saw the possibility of transforming a mere 70 odd hectares of land that had tea, into the beginning of a completely new industry here and, with great determination set about replanting with the tea bush, the waste-land where once coffee had flourished.
SRI LANKAS FIRST INDUSTRY.
The rise of Ceylons tea plantations over the grave of the coffee industry into an even greater and enduring industry, is a fascinating story. In 1867, on 19 acres at Loolecondra Estate near Kandy, James Taylor, a Scottish planter, planted first tea to be grown commercially. It became the model for future development, not only from the point of view of cultivation, but also by being a self-contained unit with its own factory. The first shipment of tea in 1872, five years later, was only two small packs containing 23 pounds valued at a mere Rupees 58 (fifty eight), a literal drop in the ocean compared to the 280 million kilograms the country exported in 2002. But, those were hard times when methods of manufacture under difficult growing conditions requiring highly skilled, scientific and technical processes, were woefully primitive. The pioneers went on to fight back the jungle to bring an ever increasing area under cultivation. In just seven years time, six-fold increase of acreage of tea were already flourishing and by the year 1900, the real fruits of lab-our were being gathered from 120,000 hectares of shimmering tea land. Today, over 220,000 hectares are planted with an average annual production exceeding over 290 million kilograms of tea to be ranked as the 3rd biggest tea producing country globally.
Today, Sri Lanka is the largest exporter of value-added teas in the world and commands a 20% share of all tea traded globally. Ceylon Tea from Sri Lanka have been researched and developed to cater to the varied tastes of tea drinkers all round the globe. Consumers in over 60 countries delight in the pleasure of a cup of "Ceylon Tea". One reason for its continuing popularity is that no harmful properties have been associated with tea over the period of more than 45 centuries since the time of its discovery. Tea is exported in different forms and in different popular pack sizes, according to market requirements. A complete range of tea bags, a wide range of packs of packeted tea, a variety of flavoured tea are the major exports along with soluble instant tea, green tea and bio tea. Sri Lanka also enjoys the distinction of conducting the largest tea auctions in the world which has been in operation since 1883.
Other experts are of the opinion that the history of Indian Cricket started its journey in the place named Sylhet (currently in Bangladesh). Proper evidence has been found to prove this from the Sporting Intelligence magazine, on 3rd March, 1845. The report was published by the editor of the Englishman newspaper and the news item was titled as "Sepoy Cricketers". The reporter made proper observation of the match played between the European cricketers and the Sepoy cricketers. Apart from this news item, another report has been found to support the fact that Cricket was first played in Sylhet in India. This report was titled as "Sepoy Cricket at Synthetic" and in this report, the reporter mentioned about the match between two regimental sides, each of which contained at least eight native cricketers.
After its initiation, Cricket started to get popularity among the Indian people within a short period of time. The middle and last half of the nineteenth century was an important period in the history of Indian Cricket, as the game spread its reach in almost all the parts of India during that period. Many teams from England started touring India by the close of the nineteenth century. There is a report published in the newspaper, The Times of India, that supports this fact and the report was about the Presidency matches between the Parsees and the Lord Hawke`s Englishmen. The match was held in Bombay in 1892. The report described how the international Cricket matches that took place in Bombay at that time, increased interest among the local people. In the Metro cities of India like Calcutta (Kolkata), Bombay (Mumbai) and Madras (Chennai), Cricket was played as a sport by the first half of the twentieth century. As the Hindus of India too started playing the game, the tournament of Bombay Presidency Matches became the Bombay Triangular in 1907-08. In 1912-13, the entry of the Muslims made it a quadrangular.
The First Test Match was played in 1932. Though India did not have a national cricket team during the early 1900s, a few Indian great cricketers of that era did represent the England cricket team. Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Duleep Singhji were the prominent ones among them. However, the first international exposure in the history of Indian Cricket came in the year 1926. In that year, a team from the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), led by A.E.R Gilligan toured India. Though it was an unofficial tour, the Indian people were quite interested and enthusiastic about the matches that MCC played during the tour. The legendary Indian cricket player, C. K. Nayudu played brilliantly during that tour and he also scored a century against the MCC side in Bombay. The tour was responsible to redefine the contours of Indian cricket. It ultimately spearheaded to the formation of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the year 1928. India was accredited Test status by 1932, much before it got its Independence in 1947. India played against England in that year.
After its initiation, Cricket started to get popularity among the Indian people within a short period of time. The middle and last half of the nineteenth century was an important period in the history of Indian Cricket, as the game spread its reach in almost all the parts of India during that period. Many teams from England started touring India by the close of the nineteenth century. There is a report published in the newspaper, The Times of India, that supports this fact and the report was about the Presidency matches between the Parsees and the Lord Hawke`s Englishmen. The match was held in Bombay in 1892. The report described how the international Cricket matches that took place in Bombay at that time, increased interest among the local people. In the Metro cities of India like Calcutta (Kolkata), Bombay (Mumbai) and Madras (Chennai), Cricket was played as a sport by the first half of the twentieth century. As the Hindus of India too started playing the game, the tournament of Bombay Presidency Matches became the Bombay Triangular in 1907-08. In 1912-13, the entry of the Muslims made it a quadrangular.
The First Test Match was played in 1932. Though India did not have a national cricket team during the early 1900s, a few Indian great cricketers of that era did represent the England cricket team. Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Duleep Singhji were the prominent ones among them. However, the first international exposure in the history of Indian Cricket came in the year 1926. In that year, a team from the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), led by A.E.R Gilligan toured India. Though it was an unofficial tour, the Indian people were quite interested and enthusiastic about the matches that MCC played during the tour. The legendary Indian cricket player, C. K. Nayudu played brilliantly during that tour and he also scored a century against the MCC side in Bombay. The tour was responsible to redefine the contours of Indian cricket. It ultimately spearheaded to the formation of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the year 1928. India was accredited Test status by 1932, much before it got its Independence in 1947. India played against England in that year.
After Independence, a big push came in the history of Indian Cricket, when India got its first ever Test series win against the neighbouring Asian counterpart and archrivals Pakistan, in 1952. The series saw brilliant and extraordinary performances from some of the greatest Indian Cricket players like Polly Umrigar, Vi jay Marksman and leg spinner SM Gupte. The Indian Cricket during 1960s saw the Indian team becoming a formidable side on native soil. It was also the decade, when the Indian team started playing well in overseas. India`s great performances on home soil were evident from the fact that India defeated New Zealand and held the teams like Pakistan, England and Australia to a draw, during that period. The 1960s also saw the rising of some of the greatly talented Indian Cricket players like Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Dilip Sardesai, Hanumant Singh, Chandu Borde and not least of all, off-spinner EAS Prasanna.
The era of India`s spin quartet comprising Bis hen Singh Bede (left-arm spinner), Illiberal Rosanna (off-spinner), BS Chandrasekhar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan (off-spinner) during 1970s, is considered as the golden era in the history of Indian Cricket. Apart from the dominance of the spin quartet over all the batsmen of the world, 1970s also saw the rising of two of India`s greatest ever batsmen - Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Vishwanath. All of these great Indian Cricket players made their presence felt in the international circuit and contributed immensely in the success of Indian team. India successfully won consecutive Test series in West Indies and England in 1971 and the team was led by Ajit Wadekar, in both the series.
During the 1980s, India developed a more attack minded batting line-up with stroke makers such as Mohammed Azharuddin, Dilip Arkansas and all-rounder Ravi Shastri prominent during this time. India won the Cricket World Cup in 1983, defeating the, then favourites, West Indies in the final, owing to a strong bowling performance. In spite of this the team performed poorly in the Test arena, including 28 consecutive Test matches without a victory. In 1984, India won the Asia Cup and in 1985, won the World Championship of Cricket in Australia. Apart from this, India remained a very weak team outside the Indian subcontinent. India`s Test series victory in 1986 against England remained the last Test series win by India outside the subcontinent for the next 19 years. The 1987 Cricket World Cup was held in India. The 1980s saw Gavaskar and Kapil Dev (India`s best all rounder to this date) at the pinnacle of their careers. Vargas made a Test record 34 centuries as he became the first man to reach the 10,000 run mark. Karil Dev later became the highest wicket taker in Test cricket with 434 wickets.
The addition of Sachin Tendulkar and Amil Kumble to the national side in 1989 and 1990 improved the team. The following year, Javagal Srinath, India`s fastest bowler since Amar Singh, made his debut. Despite this, during the 1990s, India did not win any of its 33 Tests outside the subcontinent while it won 17 out of its 30 Tests at home. After being eliminated by neighbours Sri Lanka on native land at the 1996 Cricket World Cup, the team underwent a year of change as Raul David, Sour av Gangly, later to be become captains of the team, made their debut in the same Test at Lord`s. Undulate replaced.
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