Elsewhere, the Calcutta Cricket Club was founded in 1792 in Kolkata while the Parsis set up the Oriental Cricket Club in Mumbai in 1848 and the Young Zoroastrian Cricket Club in 1850. Not surprisingly when it came to administering cricket played in India, once again a Board of Control was set up in 1928 with a British industrialist, Grant Govan, as its first president.
But it allowed the vile company to continue exercising its political control over the Indian territory it had conquered, in exchange for a payment of £40,000 to the Crown every two years. Not that it changed anything for the people of India.
The Board of Control was the powerful parliamentary body in Britain that was created in 1784 to monitor and direct the policies of the rapacious East India Company.
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