The East India Cricket Club is the cricket team run by the East India Club, which has its home on St James’s Square. While, the East India Club was founded back in the middle of the 19th century, the cricket club was founded in 1939 and after a period of absence was re-established some ten years ago. The cricket club plays its cricket in London and the Home Counties and when on tour in more far flung places abroad. This years’ tour to Spain with matches against the Intellectuals CC at the Bonalba Cricket Ground also saw the East India CC celebrate its 100th match after re-establishing with a resounding victory albeit that the honours were shared after a win for the home side on the following day – the visitors no doubt feeling the effects of the strenuous training regimes teams are put through when on tour.
Match stats herewith:
Saturday 3 November 2018
VISITORS’ ALL-ROUND SKILLS PROVE TOO STRONG FOR INTELLECTUALS AS EAST INDIA CC CELEBRATE THEIR 100TH MATCH WITH A WIN
Intellectuals CC 130 all out off 30 overs
(Nishan 29, Waleed 27; Jones(y) 5-0-24-3, C. Douse 6-0-34-3)
East India CC 131 for 4 off 21 overs
(T. Barnes 51 ret., E. Case 38 ret.; Pal 2-0-1-2, T. Richards 2-1-5-1)
East India CC win by 6 wickets
MoM: Tom Barnes for setting up his team’s victory with a match winning half century, preceded by some fine wicket-keeping.
ICC MoM: Tim Richards 22 runs and 2-1-5-1 apologetic wicket caught and bowled!

Sunday 4 November 2018
INTELLECTUALS SCRAPE HOME IN TIGHT MATCH
East India CC 103 for 9 off 25 overs
(Kumar 56 not out, Desoutter 16; Nishan 6-0-16-3, Pal 5-0-21-2)
Intellectuals CC 104 for 6 off 24.5 overs
Intellectuals CC win by 4 wickets
(Zia 26, Nishan 17 not out; Kumar 6-3-3-3, Jones(y) 6-0-14-1)
MoM: Kumar proving to be a cut above the rest with bat (56 no) and ball (3 wkts for just 3 runs)
ICC MoM: Nishan 17 not out and 3 wickets for just 16 runs, ably partnered by Bob Nix who finished on 13 not out.