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As the Cricket-crazy British ruled India, the colonial subjects had little or no opportunity to either bat or bowl during matches. Fielding and substitute running were the only two roles assigned to the Indians as the masters were never in the mood to chase after balls or soil their Manchester produced textile clothing with perspiration. Utterly disappointed by the lack of sportsmanship in the game, one hundred million irate local cricketers started the Non-Cooperation Movement in which fielders refused to budge during games. The Movement was followed by the Quit India Movement wherein all indigenous cricketers threatened to leave their home country unless the British Sports Ministry reserved a 33.3 % reservation for local players in the batting and bowling departments. After numerous hung

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  • As the Cricket-crazy British ruled India, the colonial subjects had little or no opportunity to either bat or bowl during matches. Fielding and substitute running were the only two roles assigned to the Indians as the masters were never in the mood to chase after balls or soil their Manchester produced textile clothing with perspiration. Utterly disappointed by the lack of sportsmanship in the game, one hundred million irate local cricketers started the Non-Cooperation Movement in which fielders refused to budge during games. The Movement was followed by the Quit India Movement wherein all indigenous cricketers threatened to leave their home country unless the British Sports Ministry reserved a 33.3 % reservation for local players in the batting and bowling departments. After numerous hung
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  • As the Cricket-crazy British ruled India, the colonial subjects had little or no opportunity to either bat or bowl during matches. Fielding and substitute running were the only two roles assigned to the Indians as the masters were never in the mood to chase after balls or soil their Manchester produced textile clothing with perspiration. Utterly disappointed by the lack of sportsmanship in the game, one hundred million irate local cricketers started the Non-Cooperation Movement in which fielders refused to budge during games. The Movement was followed by the Quit India Movement wherein all indigenous cricketers threatened to leave their home country unless the British Sports Ministry reserved a 33.3 % reservation for local players in the batting and bowling departments. After numerous hunger strikes and walk outs, the government relented to a 10 % indigenous quota. This ruling failed to appease the striking players and led to a total boycott of the game by Indians. Also two hundred million Indians left the country for the west Indies and Canada. In 1945, a twenty thousand strong procession began a protest march in Delhi. They kicked the cricket ball wildly around as a symbol of disdain for the game of cricket. Two hundred people were trampled to death as a result of a stamped caused by the frantic movements among the crowd. The leaders of the masses decided to make the marches more organized and prevent further mishaps. They came up with a rule that the ball was to be kicked by any one person only once. Any person found flouting the rules resulted in their banishment from the marching team. The protest marches finally came to an end after two months. However, the Indians involved in the marches could not get over the habit of kicking any rounded object. A union of ball kicking addicts was found on 24 December, 1945. The Union came up with a code and instituted the Indian Kickball Association League. The nomenclature for the newly invented sport was changed to Indian football. The prefix 'Indian' was added in order to avoid confusion with American football and football.
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