Cricket Club of India (CCI) is a cricket club in India. It is located on Dinsha Wacha Road, in

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. It was conceived as India's counterpart to the

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(MCC). It is considered one of the most prestigious clubs in the nation. The CCI uses the

Brabourne Stadium The Brabourne Stadium is a cricket ground in Mumbai in Western India, built in the British Bombay era. It was the home ground of the Mumbai men's and women's cricket teams. It can accommodate 50,000 people for sports matches. The ground is ow ...

for cricket games. It is affiliated to the

Board of Control for Cricket in India The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for cricket in India. Its headquarters are situated at Cricket centre, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The BCCI is the richest governing body of cricket in the worl ...

. Membership is the same as for the Royal Willingdon Sports Club, Bombay Gymkhana and Breach Candy Club: closed, and only current members' children can attain it.

History

On 8 November 1933, the Cricket Club of India was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee with its registered office in

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. The principal object of the company was to promote sports in general and cricket in particular throughout the country. The promoters and some leading men who founded BCCI five years before were the promoters of the Club. Originally, life members, who were later termed as founder members, paid Rs 100 and ordinary members paid Rs 10 for entrance and an annual subscription of Rs 15. The Cricket Club of India was also the birthplace of the famous Chinese-style dish

Chicken Manchurian Manchurian is a class of Indian Chinese dishes made by roughly chopping and deep-frying ingredients such as chicken, cauliflower (''gobi''), prawns, fish, mutton, and paneer, and then sautéeing it in a sauce flavored with soy sauce. Manchurian ...

. Restaurateur Nelson Wang claims to have invented it at the request of a customer in 1975 while working as a cook at the CCI. BCCI's headquarters were within the CCI until 2007 when it was moved to its current location at the Cricket centre in the premises of Mumbai Cricket Association at the Wankhede stadium. Brabourne Stadium served as the primary home ground of the

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until the construction of the Wankhede Stadium in 1974.

First-class cricket

Teams representing the Cricket Club of India played 13 first-class matches between 1935 and 1958, most of them against touring teams. Nine of the matches were played at Brabourne Stadium.

Facilities

The CCI also houses in the

, which the club owns. The CCI is an affiliated member of the BCCI like any other state association, but unlike any one of them, does not conduct cricket in the state. Mumbai Cricket Association, Maharashtra Cricket Association and Vidarbha Cricket Association conduct cricket in Mumbai and rest of Maharashtra respectively. The stadium has one of the best cricket pitches and grounds in the region. It also has

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courts, a swimming pool, fitness centers, a

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room, squash courts,

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courts,

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tables, cafes, bars, a library, a reading room and a banquet hall. It is very difficult to get membership into this exclusive club.

Kingfisher Open

In 2006 and 2007, the CCI tennis courts hosted the

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, an

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tournament, previously held in

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from 1995 to 2004 and in

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in 2005.

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were the official sponsors. The tournament was presented by the Government of

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. The tournament was played from 25 September 2006 to 2 October 2006.

ICC Champions trophy

The Cricket Club of India Limited staged 5 matches of the

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in 2006 including the final between

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and

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played on 5 November 2006.

2013 ICC Women's world cup

The Brabourne Stadium hosted the

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along with the MIG Cricket club in Bandra, Mumbai, the DREIMS ground and the

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both in

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. The Brabourne Stadium hosted the final of the event, where Australia comprehensively beat the West Indies.

Membership scam

In 2013 an internal inquiry set up by the club concluded that at least 11 members had got into the 80-year-old institution in the last three years through forgery committed in collusion with a club insider. Several CCI members revealed that the fraud was committed by replacing personal details of certain deceased members with those of these new entrants. "Files of certain members who had died some time back and whose files were lying dormant were tampered with by someone on the inside who had access," said a source close to the investigation, who did not wish to be identified. "Names and other details of aspiring members were then put in the old files to make it look as if the old member (deceased) never existed in the club records." The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police arrested two businessmen, Ketan Thacker and Nimai Agrawal, in connection with the fake memberships scam.

References

External links

Official website
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