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History
The Madras Cricket Club is a sporting club based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was founded in 1846 by Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot. It is the second oldest cricket club in India and one of the oldest in the Indian subcontinent. The actual date of founding was under a cloud, with city and cricket historians suggesting both 1846 and 1848. Around the time of the clubs 150th anniversary, a history commission was formed and identified the right date as 1846.

The club was whites only for almost a century. It opened up to Indian membership in 1935 when the Madras Cricket Association (the predecessor to Tamil Nadu Cricket Association) was formed. The club had less than 50 members of Indian origin at the time of the Indian independence in 1947.

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 * Madras Cricket Club