Question: Who initiated the game of cricket among india and how?

context: In 1639, the Company effectively founded the city of Madras, and in 1661 acquired Portuguese territory on the west coast of India that included Bombay. In 1690, an Anglo-Mughal treaty allowed English merchants to establish a trading settlement on the Hooghly River, which became Calcutta. All of these places became leading centres of cricket as the popularity of the game grew among the native population.
question: How did they initiate the game of cricket among India?
short_answers: The British played the Indians to build relationship
trading
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question: Who initiated the game of cricket among india?
short_answers: sailors and traders of the East India Company
The East India Company

Answer: Sailors and traders of the East India Company initiated the game of cricket in India and did so through trading. The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and was the means by which cricket was introduced into India.