M. J. Gopalan Trophy
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The M. J. Gopalan Trophy is a bi-annual cricket
tournament played between Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Madras (now Tamil Nadu
). The idea of the competition came about with the starting of a silver jubilee fund in 1952 to celebrate M.J. Gopalan's 25 years as a cricket and hockey player. Through the fund, an annual cricket match was instituted between Madras and Ceylon (later Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka) and it was named after Gopalan. The match became a regular fixture in the annual calendar until Sri Lanka received Test status in 1983 and the competition was stopped. It was revived in 2000 with a match between Tamil Nadu and a Colombo District Cricket Association. Two years later the fixture was dropped again but on 21 September 2007, the Sri Lankan and Tamil Nadu boards agreed to restart the competition. Tamil Nadu will play two matches later that month against a Sri Lankan side comprising players from their A-team and the under-19 level.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
tournament played between Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Madras (now Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
). The idea of the competition came about with the starting of a silver jubilee fund in 1952 to celebrate M.J. Gopalan's 25 years as a cricket and hockey player. Through the fund, an annual cricket match was instituted between Madras and Ceylon (later Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka) and it was named after Gopalan. The match became a regular fixture in the annual calendar until Sri Lanka received Test status in 1983 and the competition was stopped. It was revived in 2000 with a match between Tamil Nadu and a Colombo District Cricket Association. Two years later the fixture was dropped again but on 21 September 2007, the Sri Lankan and Tamil Nadu boards agreed to restart the competition. Tamil Nadu will play two matches later that month against a Sri Lankan side comprising players from their A-team and the under-19 level.