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The Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (CC&FC) located in Ballygunge, South Kolkata, is a cricket and association football club with rugby, hockey, swimming and tennis sections as well in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India. Founded as the Calcutta Cricket Club by British expatriates who had come over with the British East India Company it is known to be in existence by 1792.[1] The club is regarded as the oldest cricket club outside of the British Isles.

History

The Calcutta Cricket Club merged with the Calcutta Football Club and the Ballygunge Cricket Club over the years to become the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club.

Famous members

Football

  • Chuni Goswami
  • Subhas Bhowmik
  • S.Bhattacharjee
  • Pradip Choudhury
  • P.Ganguly Ganguly
  • Santo Mitra
  • Shyam Thapa

Hockey

  • Keshav Chandra Datt
  • Gurbux Singh
  • Dr. Vece Paes
  • Anand Mandapaka

Cricket

Tennis

References

  1. ^ Rowland Bowen, Some dates in Indian cricket history, Wisden 1967. Recent Wisdens have neither endorsed nor rejected this.