Kerry Packer, an Australian television tycoon who saw the money-making potential of cricket as a televised sport, signed up fifty-one of the world’s leading cricketers.

The shifting of the ICC headquarters from London to tax-free Dubai. A more important sign that the centre of gravity in cricket has shifted away from the old, Anglo-Australian axis is that innovations in cricket technique.

The enormous popularity of this shortened version of the game led to the first World Cup being successfully staged in 1975.

The brilliance and skill of players like the great Dhyan Chand brought India a string of Olympic gold medals. India won gold medals in six consecutive Olympic Games.

The rich who could afford to play it for pleasure were called amateurs and the poor who played it for a living were called professionals.

Polo was a game invented by colonial officials in India and soon gained great popularity. Unlike cricket which came to India from Britain, other games like polo were exported from the colonies to Britain.

The first hockey club in India was started in Calcutta in 1885-1886. India was represented in the hockey competition of the Olympic Games for the first time in 1928.

Hockey is the India’s National Game. Hockey, like many other modern games, was introduced into India by the British army in colonial times.

Palwankar Baloo was born in Poona in 1875. He was a Dalit cricketer. Born at a time when Indians weren’t allowed to play Test cricket

Thomas Hughes studied at Rugby School during the headmastership of Thomas Arnold. Based on his school experience, he wrote a novel, Tom Brown’s Schooldays. The book, published in 1857.