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Wallis Mathias born in Karachi, Pakistan was the first Goan cricketer to play Test cricket. He played for Pakistan.
Antao D'Souza also born in Karachi, played for Pakistan in a few Test Matches. However, Peter Paul Fernandez
born in Karachi, the first Goan to play for Indian Olympic Hockey team (1936) was also selected for the Pakistan Cricket Team to play in an un-official Test match against the West Indies.
Lenny Barretto
Nagesh Bhatcar wrote:
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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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