CC&FC
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The Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (CC&FC) at Ballygunge in South Kolkata,(near the crossing of Gurusaday Road and Old Ballygunge Road) is a cricket and association football club 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 British Isles.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] FAMOUS ATHLETES
[edit] FOOTBALL
- Chuni Goswami
- Subhas Bhowmik
- S.Bhattacharjee
- Pradip Choudhury
- P.Ganguly Ganguly
- Santo Mitra
- Shyam Thapa
[edit] HOCKEY
- Keshav Chandra Datt
- Gurbux Singh
- Dr. Vece Paes
- Anand Mandapaka
[edit] CRICKET
- Punya B. Datta [1]
- Dilip Doshi [2]
- A.Gandotra [3]
- Devang Gandhi [4]
- Sourav Ganguly
- Syed Saba Karim search=saba+karim
- Arun Lal [5]
- Pranab Roy [6]
- Oswald Freer
- E. Huminara
- Youyaz Jaquez
[edit] TENNIS
- Chiradip Mukerjea
- Enrico Piperno
- Leander Paes
[edit] References
- ^ Rowland Bowen, Some dates in Indian cricket history, Wisden 1967. Recent Wisdens have neither endorsed nor rejected this.
