Origins of one day Cricket

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I was reading this article on cricinfo, nothing particularly fascintating about it. The usual on a rainy English afternoon, the brave knights of the queen..yada yada. However below the article there were three fascinating comments. I would be very happy if anyone could shed any light on these comments. Article: http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/510124.html Comments:

Posted by prince_of_cochin on (April 09 2011, 08:45 AM GMT) Sorry Mr Williamson. No disrespect. One day cricket was invented and first tournament was conducted in a town named Tripunithura, near cityy of Cochin in 1951 by princes of Cochin Royal Family. We have seen all historians and administrators either neglect or ignore this fact. The tournament is named Pooja Knockout. It is still being conducted.

Posted by Prasanth Varma on (April 09 2011, 09:01 AM GMT) Absolutely FALSE!! The first One-day Cricket tournament was played at The Palace Oval in Tripunithura, Cochin, Kerala, India in 1950. The organizers were Tripunithura Cricket Club (erstwhile Prince's Club of State of Cochin), this is a BCCI recognized First Class Cricket Tournament, up and running for the past 62 years!! Many international players have participated including GR Viswanath, BP Patel, L Sivaramakrishnan, Sudhir Naik, M Azharuddin, ML Jaisimha, Kiran More, Shivlal Yadav, MV Narasimha Rao, Arshad Ayub, WV Raman..to name a few. Kerala Varma Kelappan thampuran, who has represented Kerala in Ranji Trophy was the brain behind this and considered as the "Inventor of One-day Cricket"

Posted by Prasanth Varma on (April 09 2011, 09:09 AM GMT) Please see some photos of the old tournament here.. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=100001047019481&aid=22358

[Prakat]

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