MRC1924-2024

  WARTIME CRICKET SK GURUNATHAN ‚The Madras cricket season for 1942 -43 will be remembered not so much for what happened during the year as for what did not happen. As a result of the air raid alarm in the city in April last, which, however, proved a damp squib, and due to certain other causes, especially grounds being used for dugouts, there was little enthusiasm for the game and Madras cricket went into doldrums. Neither did we conduct our league championship, which is ten years old, nor did we take part in the Ranji Trophy championship, for the first time since its inception. Maybe there were good reasons for this but there is no gainsaying the fact that some of our young cricketers lost one precious season. ‚Cricket has a strange fascination for those who play it, peace or no peace. So far from stopping cricket, many English cricketers have taken their bats to the battle front. Sir John Astley tells a pleasant story of the Battle of Alma in the last World War, which shows how ...

HOW MRC AND TCC VIED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THE TOP SPOT The first two decades of the league were dominated by two teams, Triplicane Cricket Club and Mylapore Recreation Club. The other strong combinations of the period were Sounder Cricket Club and Minerva CC, each winning the title twice, with Chepauk United Club and Madras Cricket Club bringing up the rear among the champions, with one success each. MCC was a late entrant into the league, but won the shield in the second year of its participation. This is how the balance of power shifted during the two decades: Year                                        Champion 1932-33                              ...