Question

The first Indian club, the Calcutta Cricket Club was established in the year ___________.
(a) 1792
(b) 1721
(c) 1723
(d) 1782

Answer 1

Hint: The British Raj was busy developing its foundations in the city of Calcutta, then just over a hundred years old and increasing steadily in both economic and political importance. And athletics have certainly been a part of social lore.

Complete answer: In 1792, Britain's Calcutta cricket club was founded as the first Indian cricket club. Just British players appeared in it. In 1848, the first Indian cricket club founded by the Indians themselves was the Oriental cricket club. Parsis set it up and played in it. This was completely dominated and played out by British army officers and civil servants. The British discovered the Calcutta cricket club. The Calcutta cricket club was only discovered in Calcutta. The Calcutta cricket club was funded by British expatriates from the East India Company of Britain. For sub-continental reporters, sporting activities are estimated to be significant enough. Fortunately, the Madras Courier copy was dated the 23rd. February, 1792, has persisted. Cricket fixtures between the Calcutta Cricket Club and Barrackpore, and the Calcutta Cricket Club and Dum Dum were published in the paper. Obviously, in 1792, the Calcutta Cricket Club was already in existence. Thanks to former President H.J. Moorhouse, the story of how CC&FC traced its origins is fascinating and is stored in its files. It started with a letter from Alan R. Tait, Honorary Secretary of Oporto Cricket Club in Portugal, to The Times, London, in 1955. That year the Club celebrated its centennial, and Tait believed it had to be one of the oldest cricket clubs outside of Great Britain. From many quarters, this letter attracted a good deal of response. Several clubs have been identified as older than Oporto. The ball swayed in favor of Calcutta, to use a cricketing metaphor, when one Irwing Rosenwater wrote to the Times about the news item in the Madras Courier dated 23rd. 1792 February.

Hence, Correct option is (a) - 1792.

Note: The Club was founded by British expatriates who had come to the British East India Company as the "Calcutta Cricket Club Clippers" The Calcutta Cricket Club played its home games along the Hooghly river during its first years of existence.