Ep 1 - Separate Gates, Separate Dressing Rooms It’s a beautiful day for cricket. The turf is green. The radio is crackling. The scoreboard is ticking. The crowd is cheering. And the sun is beginning to set on the British Empire. We travel in time to an age when caste and class divide the pavilion. On and off the field, cricket reflects the discrimination that prevails in colonial societies. Players are segregated, teams assigned ethnic names, and coloured players docked their pay for using gates meant for white Englishmen. Yet, it is this golden age that gives us greats like Ranjitsinhji and Duleepsinhji, and later Griffith and Sobers. Many new flags flutter in the winds of change as the colonies assert their independence. A game designed to cement the British Commonwealth takes on a life of its own and engenders a new world order. Credits: Akshay Ramuhalli, Bijoy Venugopal, Bruce Lee Mani, Narayan Krishnaswamy, Prashant Vasudevan, Seema Seth, Shraddha Gautam, Supriya Joshi and Velu Shankar Explore further: Books: Mid-Wicket Tales — From Trumper to Tendulkar (Sage India, 2014) https://a.co/d/5HAhfbq From Mumbai to Durban: India’s Greatest Tests (Juggernaut, 2016) https://amzn.eu/d/8aOZa3F YouTube: Cricket Giants Of 1890s (0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0KqQiurckQ Rare Footage of English and Australian Cricket Teams (1905) | Sporting History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChrFcjLJymU !972: Gavaskar, Venkat, Solkar visit Ranjitsingh's home in Nawanagar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu3wIJkz5lg Calypso Summer 1960/61 - Part 3 ABC Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFitqoB2B08 Shehnai Recital of Ustad Bismillah Khan | Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JeMR0RAHZg All India Radio Signature tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuS-UiaKiVk England & Australia 1948 | The Lord's Ashes Test | Classic Cricket Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-xXMHXUMZg Maryan - Official Teaser 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V8iZBq0JPo