History Of Indian Cricket

BCCI 

BOARD OF CONTROL FOR CRICKET IN INDIA

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for cricket in INDIA

 Its headquarters are situated at  Wankhede stadium in Mumbai.

The BCCI is the richest governing body of cricket in the world and is part of the Big Three of international cricket, along with Cricket Australia and the England and Wales Cricket Board.

The board was formed in December 1928 and is a consortium of state cricket associations. The state associations select their own representatives who in turn elect the BCCI president. Grant Govan was the first BCCI president and Antony De Millon was its first secretary. It joined the Imperial cricket conference in the year 1926. The BCCI is an autonomous, private organization and does not fall under the purview of the National Sports Federation of India.

CK NAYUDU

 (In the 1930s), Indian former cricketer, Indian cricket team's first captain in Test cricket

In 1932, India played its maiden Test match, under the captaincy of CK Naidu, against England at the Lords Cricket ground in London. During England's 1933-34 tour of India, on 17 December 1933, Laal Amarnath became the first Indian batsman to score a test century, scoring 118 on his debut, at the Bombay Gymkhana In 1967-68, India won its first-ever Test cricket series outside Asia. Previously it had defeated Pakistan, New Zealand, and England and won a series at home in India.

1945-1960

Vijaya Ananda Gajapathi Raju
Also known as

Vizzy

was the former Indian captain, for the first-ever England tour of India after India was freed from British control. The series was held in the year 1952, and for that series, England's Captian was Nigel Howard.

Vijaya Ananda Gajapathi Raju was the BCCI president in the 1960s.