Sports



The first cricket club
Cricket club founded in Hambeldon, a village in southern England (1750)

First Indian cricket tournament
The Bombay Triangular which late became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912)

First Indian cricket test match
Against England at Lord’s (1932)

First Indian cricket captain
CK Nayudu, for the tour of England (1932)

First Indian cricketer to score a century
Lala Amarnath, against England in South Bomaby. He was also independent India’s first test captain leading a tour of Australia in 1947-48 (1933)

First Indian cricketer to score a triple century
Virender Sehwag, against Pakistan at Multan(2004)

First Indian hat-trick in test cricket
Harbhajan Singh, against Australia (2001)

First Indian batsman to complete 10,000 runs
Sunil Gavaskar. He was first in the world to achieve this

First Indian Tennis Grand Slam title
Mahesh Bhupathi, partnering with Japanese Rika Hiraki, in the mixed doubles category of the French Open (1997)

First Indian woman to appear in an olympic final
P.T Usha, Los angeles olympics (1984)