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Fred,
The first person of Goan origin to play Test cricket was perhaps Wally Mathias and
he played for Pakistan. The next one was Dilip Sardessai and he played for India!
I know for sure that Dilip Sardessai was born in GOA, and he was my Uncle's
friend and classmate in Goa. He could speak fluent Konkani and I thinks is now
back in Goa, after having played for India, Bombay and the ACC team.
I have no idea about Wally Mathias' place of birth.
Nagesh Bhatcar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [Goanet] All Goans are Indians? (Shifting to Goans in Test cricket)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 01:11:00 +0530 (IST)
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Just to stir up more debate on a volatile subject... (as an aside, should we get so worked up about religion, nationalism, language, ethnicity, and not the other issues which really affect life on this planet?)
Could someone tell me who was the first Goan cricketeer to play in a Test match? How many Goans played in test matches in all? Which country did they represent? Perhaps the answers would throw up additional insights...
Incidentally, I'm quite at peace with my Indian/South Asian identity as with my Portuguese surname. These are accidents of history; I did not have any say in the outcome. And I'm not going to waste my energy in denying history.
What perhaps makes more sense doing is to question how exactly our inherited identities help or hinder us in living in the current world. Without taking fixed and inflexible sides, we could continually ask which post-1961 changes are benefitting Goa and which are harming it. Also, the same questions about colonial rule of the pre-1961 period. -FN
PS: To be honest, I am no cricket fan. Was once fanatically devoted to following the game... till India got involved in a string of humiliating defeats. That was sometime in 1982-3 or so... can't recall the exact year. In hindsight, it was great this happened. It gives one more time to look at more real-world issues.
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