Sport and Sportsmen

A young Indian student from Cambridge was selected for England’s cricket team after public pressure.

In 1934, India inaugurated the Ranji Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in honour of K.S. Ranjitsinhji (1872-1933), an Indian prince of the British Raj who played cricket for several years at the very highest level for England, a country he loved dearly and which loved him in return.

Read

Max fully deserves his reputation as England’s greatest all-round sportsman.

Maxwell (Max) Woosnam was born in Liverpool, but brought up in Aberhafesp, Mid Wales. His father, a senior clergyman in the Church of England, sent him to the prestigious school Winchester College, where young Max embarked on an extraordinary sporting career.

Read

British expats in Valparaíso kicked off the Chilean passion for soccer.

On June 19th 1895, Chilean football acquired its first governing body. It was the first major step towards Chile’s immensely popular football league, and it was Chileans of British descent who were behind it.

Read

How the cricketing rivalry between England and Australia got its name.

The Ashes is the name given to any Test Match series between the cricket teams of England and Australia, in a tradition which began as newspaper joke.

Read

A team of amateurs gave Europe’s finest a drubbing.

THE Lipton Trophy, a short-lived European soccer competition, was won - twice - by little West Auckland, a team of plucky amateurs from County Durham.

Read