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​Cricket in the Land of Zamorins

The earliest published references to cricket were in the late 1600s, when fines were handed out for those who skipped the church to play. One presumption puts forward the beginning of the game being among shepherds hitting a stone with their crooks and, at the same time, defending the wicket gate into the sheep fold. The other theory marks out the word criquet to the Flemish krickstoel, a piece of furniture on which one kneels in church.
In its formative years, cricket was very much an English sport but with the British Empire growing rapidly, many émigrés took the game with them to such far-flung places as Australia, Africa, the Caribbean and India. There is no place other than the Asian sub-continent, at the moment, where cricket is so successful in terms of the number of admirers as well as in commercially viable terms.
Falcons Cricket Club is one of the oldest cricket clubs in the city of Calicut. It was in the summer of 1974 that four minnows - Ram Mohan Kamath, C. Murali, V. Achuthan and C.P. Sundareswaran - took to cricket. An atmosphere hard to define characterized those days when there was hardly a ground to play on as the sport was just catching up and with less enthusiasts. Yet they moved on and chose the expansive premises of the 'Kalariyil' tharavad at Chalappuram for their initial escapades with bat and ball. The pathway leading to the main quadrangle (muttam) served as the bowler’s run up and it was here that this 'fiery foursome', along with trio from the tharavad - Murali (Kunchettan), Ramu (Ramettan) and Sugathan - worked on their skills. With no shielding gear of any sort, save the impetuous cockiness of youth, many a (cork) ball was smacked, blocked or ducked under - the bruises and scars on their supple bodies were the first trophies that these cricketers wore and flaunted with great pride, the very same cricketers who laid the foundation of Falcons Cricket Club.
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