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The '''Calcutta Cricket and Football Club''' (CC&FC) located in [[Ballygunge]], South Kolkata, is a [[cricket]] and [[football (soccer)|association football]] [[club]] with [[Rugby union|rugby]], [[Field hockey|hockey]], [[swimming (sport)|swimming]] and [[tennis]] sections as well in [[Kolkata]] (formerly Calcutta), [[West Bengal]], [[India]]. Founded as the ''[[Calcutta Cricket Club]]'' by [[United Kingdom|British]] [[expatriates]] who had come over with the [[British East India Company]] it is known to be in existence by 1792.<ref>[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152361.html [[Rowland Bowen]], ''Some dates in [[Indian cricket]] history'', [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden 1967]]. Recent ''Wisdens'' have neither endorsed nor rejected this.] </ref> The club is regarded as the oldest cricket club outside of the [[ |
The '''Calcutta Cricket and Football Club''' (CC&FC) located in [[Ballygunge]], South Kolkata, is a [[cricket]] and [[football (soccer)|association football]] [[club]] with [[Rugby union|rugby]], [[Field hockey|hockey]], [[swimming (sport)|swimming]] and [[tennis]] sections as well in [[Kolkata]] (formerly Calcutta), [[West Bengal]], [[India]]. Founded as the ''[[Calcutta Cricket Club]]'' by [[United Kingdom|British]] [[expatriates]] who had come over with the [[British East India Company]] it is known to be in existence by 1792.<ref>[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152361.html [[Rowland Bowen]], ''Some dates in [[Indian cricket]] history'', [[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden 1967]]. Recent ''Wisdens'' have neither endorsed nor rejected this.] </ref> The club is regarded as the oldest cricket club outside of the [[United Kingdom]]. |
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Revision as of 20:41, 22 March 2010
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 United Kingdom.
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
- Punya B. Datta [1]
- Dilip Doshi [2]
- A.Gandotra [3]
- Devang Gandhi [4]
- Sourav Ganguly
- Saba Karim
- Arun Lal [5]
- Pranab Roy [6]
- Biswajit Bhowmick
Tennis
- Chiradip Mukerjea
- Enrico Piperno
- Leander Paes
References
- ^ Rowland Bowen, Some dates in Indian cricket history, Wisden 1967. Recent Wisdens have neither endorsed nor rejected this.
