When Parsi cricketers met with hostility they retaliated by beating the Brits at their own game
Gulu Ezekiel
Reprinted excerpts from What If…? Indian Cricket’s Counter-Factual History by Gulu Ezekiel. The extracts from the chapter "Parsees the Pioneers” are carried with permission from the publisher Sachin Bajaj.
But what if they (Parsis) had not taken to cricket so enthusiastically that they were the first to send teams abroad, to England in 1886 and again in 1888? Would cricket in India never have taken off in the first place? And what if the Brits had succeeded in their nefarious plot to destroy Parsi cricket virtually at birth? Would cricket in India have died an early death?
It is true the Parsis......