Caste, region, religion and Indian cricket

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Caste Profiles - 1970s/ 80s/ 90s

The Times of India

The B-Teams

Caste Profiles - 1970s/ 80s/ 90s

S. Anand

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?215572

Eating With Our Fingers, Watching Hindi Cinema And Consuming Cricket As I begin this, I feel weighed down by the burden of addressing (the 'liberal'?) readers on the regressiveness of a film like Lagaan, and even more weighed down by the prospect of convincing them that cricket in India has been a truly casteist game — a game best suited to Hinduism.

The 1996 Indian team that played England in the Birmingham test. Only the skipper, Azharuddin, is a non-Hindu. All others are brahman/ 'upper' caste.

V Rathour ('upper' caste) A Jadeja ('upper' caste) SV Manjrekar (brahman) SR Tendulkar (brahman) M Azharuddin (Muslim, captain) NR Mongia ('upper' caste) SB Joshi (brahman) A Kumble (brahman) J Srinath (brahman) PL Mhambrey ('upper' caste) BKV Prasad (brahman)

The 1982 team that played England at Lord's. All players except Kirmani are brahman/'upper' caste.

SM Gavaskar (brahman) GAHM Parkar ('upper' caste) DB Vengsarkar (brahman) GR Viswanath (brahman) Yashpal Sharma (brahman) O Malhotra ('upper' caste) N Kapil Dev (jat) RJ Shastri (brahman) SMH Kirmani (Muslim) S Madan Lal (brahman) DR Doshi (brahman) The 1978 team that played West Indies in the Bombay test. Kirmani and Bedi are non-Hindus. All others are brahman / 'upper' caste. SM Gavaskar (brahman) CPS Chauhan ('upper' caste) M Amarnath ('upper' caste) GR Viswanath (brahman) DB Vengsarkar (brahman) SMH Kirmani (Muslim) N Kapil Dev (jat) KD Ghavri ('upper' caste) S Venkataraghavan (brahman) BS Bedi (Sikh) BS Chandrasekhar (brahman)

So, an average of 6 brahmans per team

Vinod Ganpat Kambli and Doddanarasiah Ganesh, both with short-lived careers, are being talked about as the only post-1947 Dalit cricketers but Kanadiga friends inform me that Ganesh could be a backward caste 'gowda' and Kambli, it appears, is from a fisherman caste and technically not Scheduled Caste.