1. The Parsis were considered the first Indian community to play cricket in India.  

2. They were brought into close contact with the British due to their interest in Trade.

3. They were the first Indian community to westernize themselves.

1. The quarrel between the Parsis and the Bombay Gymkhana began over the use of a park.

2. The Parsis complained that the park was spoiled and left unfit for playing cricket by the polo ponies of the British.

3. The Parsis built their own Gymkhana and the matter ended. 

1. Kerry Packer, an Australian television tycoon who saw the money-making potential of cricket as a television sport.

2. He signed up fifty-one of the world’s leading cricketers against the wishes of the international cricket board. 

3. About two years staged unofficial Tests and one day international matches under the name of World Cricket Series.

4. While packer’s circus as it was then described folded up after two years 

1. Television coverage changed cricket.

2. It expanded the audience for the game by beaming cricket into small towns and villages.

3. It also broadened cricket’s social base.

 4. Children who had never previously had the chance to watch international cricket because they lived outside the big cities, where top-level cricket was played, could now watch and learn by imitating their heroes. 
 
 

Following are the different by which we can say that Test cricket is a unique game.

1. A test match could go on for five days and still end in draw.

2. The length of the pitch was specified 22 yards but the size of or shape of the ground was not specified.

3. There were no limits on the shape or size of the bat.

4. Cricket was the earliest modern team sport to be codified.

5. Cricket gave itself rules and regulations so that it could be played in a uniform and standardized way well before team games like Soccer and Hockey. 

1.  The victory of West- Indies over England in the first test series 1950 was celebrated as a way of National Movement in West Indies.

2. It was a way of demonstration that the West Indies were the equal of white Englishmen.  

3. There were two ironies to this great victory. First the West Indies was captained by a white player. That is the West Indian team was captained by a white man.

4. Secondly, the West Indian cricket team represented not one nation but several dominations that later became independent countries.

5. The pan-West Indian team represented the entire Caribbean region in International Test Cricket.