The Freelooters cricket team was an Indian first-class cricket team which took part in the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament, beginning in December 1931. The team played in the competition until 1934 and played six first-class matches in the process.[1]
The team was established by the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram and captained by the Maharajkumar of Alirajpur.[2]
In the 1931-32 final Freelooters overwhelmed Aligarh Muslim University Past and Present by 432 runs; for the victors Vijay Merchant and Sorabji Colah each scored a century and Amar Singh took nine wickets.[3]
References
- ↑ First-Class Matches played by Freelooters. CricketArchive.
- ↑ Mihir Bose, A History of Indian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, London, 1990, pp. 92-93.
- ↑ The Home of CricketArchive. cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2016-05-04.
External links
- Freelooters at CricketArchive