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Edited extracts from Cricket Country: The Untold History of the First All India Team by Prashant Kidambi reprinted with permission of the publisher Penguin Random House India. The idea for a Parsi Gymkhana was first aired at a meeting held in February 1885 at the Ripon Club which was attended by prominent patrons of Parsi sport. Backed by the leading lights of the Parsi community — men like Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Jamsetji N. Tata and his elder son Dorab, Dinshaw Petit, Pherozeshah Mehta, Kharshedji N. Seervai and S. S. Bengalee — the newly constituted Gymkhana succeeded in obtaining a grant of......