Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) was established in 1929. It is the central governing body for cricket in India. Technically, it is a private club and is not required to make it’s finances public. BCCI generally uses government-owned stadiums across the country at a nominal annual rent. Central Government’s minister for agriculture, Sharad Powar, is the current President of the board. Lalit Modi, the chairman and commissioner of Indian Premier League, is the vice president of BCCI. Niranjan Rasiklal Shah, a former opening batsman from Saurashtra, is the secretary of the cricket board. The BCCI is the richest cricket board in the world.
Cricket was introduced in India by the British in 1720s. The first cricket match in India was played between two teams of visiting sailors at a seaport in Kutch in 1725. The first Indians to play the game of cricket in India were the minority community of Parsis in Bombay. They founded the Orient Cricket Club in 1848, the first non-British cricket club in Bombay, India. In 1892, an annual cricket match was played between Parsis and the Europeans. Hindus entered the fray in 1907, what came to be known as a triangular cricket tournament. Muslims joined the game in 1912 in the Bombay Quadrangular. The four Palwankar brothers were the biggest Indian cricket stars.
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