CC&FC

CC&FC

The Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (CC&FC) located in Ballygunge, South Kolkata, is a cricket and association football club with rugby, hockey and tennis sections as well 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. [ [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152361.html Rowland Bowen, "Some dates in Indian cricket history", Wisden 1967. Recent "Wisdens" have neither endorsed nor rejected this.] ] The club is regarded as the oldest cricket club outside of the British Isles.

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.

Famous members

Football

*Chuni Goswami
*Subhas Bhowmik
*S.Bhattacharjee
*Pradip Choudhury
*P.Ganguly Ganguly
*Santo Mitra
*Shyam Thapa

Hockey

*Keshav Chandra Datt
*Gurbux Singh
*Dr. Vece Paes
*Anand Mandapaka

Cricket

*Punya B. Datta [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12051.html]
*Dilip Doshi [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28107.html]
*A.Gandotra [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28772.html]
*Devang Gandhi [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28770.html]
*Sourav Ganguly
*Syed Saba Karim [http://content-search.cricinfo.com/ci/content/site/search.html? search=saba+karim]
*Arun Lal [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/26295.html]
*Pranab Roy [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/33187.html]

Tennis

*Chiradip Mukerjea
*Enrico Piperno
*Leander Paes

References

External links

* [http://www.calcuttaweb.com/sports.htm Calcutta sports timeline]
* [http://www.banglacricket.com/History/timeline.php Alternative timeline for CCFC formation]
* [http://www.ccfc1792.com CCFC Official Website]


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