> From: " Frederick [FN] Noronha * ???????? ???????? " > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Goanet] Anglo? > > Is it true that cricket administrator A F de Melo was Anglo-Indian? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_de_Mello_%28cricket_administrator%29
In Ramachandra Guha's book on cricket, 'A Corner of a Forgotten Field', A.S. D'Mello, who was secretary to R.E. Grant-Govan. "Born in Karachi in 1898, and of Goan extraction, D'Mello studied in England and returned to become a boxwallah in Delhi." Guha credits him, along with Grant Govan, for setting up the BCCI. He was Secretary of BCCI and President from 1946-47 to 1950-51. A supporter of the Mumbai Pentangular cricket, he came round to the view that it was communal cricket, and was instrumental in founding and popularising the Ranji trophy. The Wikipedia entry would seem to need some correction. Could it be that D'Mello tried to pass himself off as an Anglo because of the benefits this would confer during colonial times? -- Question everything -- Karl Marx
