(i) Cricket in its early stages: In colonial India, cricket was organized on the basis of race and religion. The first evidence of cricket being played in India is from 1721 when England sailors in Cambay played recreational cricket. (ii) Cricket Clubs: In 1792, the Calcutta Cricket Club became the first Indian club. Cricket was almost entirely a sport played by the British military and civil personnel in all-white clubs and gymkhanas in India during the eighteenth century. (iii) Parsi Cricket: Parsis were the first in India to play cricket. Because of their interest in trade and western education, they were close to the British. In 1848, they established the Oriental Cricket Club in Bombay, and later the Parsi Gymkhana. (iv) Clubs founded by other communities: The Parsi Gymkhana set a precedent for other Indians to create clubs based on the concept of a religious community. Hindus and Muslims were actively collecting finances and support for a Hindu Gymkhana and an Islam Gymkhana by the 1890s. Colonial India was not considered a country by the British. (v) Quadrangular Tournament: Because of the history of gymkhana cricket, first-class cricket is now organized on racial and communal lines. The teams who competed in colonial India's most famous and prestigious first-class cricket tournament did not represent regions, as do teams in today's Ranji Trophy, but religious communities. The competition was formerly known as the Quadrangular because four teams competed: Europeans, Parsis, Hindus, and Muslims. When a fifth team, the Rest, was added, it became the Pentangular, which included all the remaining communities, such as the Indian Christians.