The Rest (Bombay) cricket team

This article is about the Bombay Tournament team. For the Irani Cup team, see Rest of India cricket team.

The Rest was an Indian first-class cricket team which took part in the annual Bombay Pentangular from 1937–38 to 1945–46.[1] It comprised those players who did not fit into any of the teams that took part in the Quadrangular, including Catholics, Jews and mixed-race Anglo-Indians.[2] Several leading players from Ceylon also took part.[3] The team reached the final of the Pentangular twice, in 1940–41 and 1943–44. In the 1943–44 final Vijay Hazare scored 309 out of the team's total of 387.[4]

The Rest also played two first-class matches in the one-off Amritsar Tournament, competing against the Hindus and Muslims, in 1940–41.[5]

In all, The Rest played 12 first-class matches, losing six and drawing six.

The Rest also competed in the five-team Sind Tournament in Karachi from 1919–20 to 1946–47, but these matches are not considered first-class.[6] The Rest were unsuccessful in this tournament except in the last season, when they beat Parsees by two wickets in the final.

  1. ^ "First-class matches played by The Rest (India)". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  2. ^ Mihir Bose, A History of Indian Cricket, Andre-Deutsch, 1990, p. 125.
  3. ^ Michael Roberts, "Sri Lanka: The Power of Cricket and the Power in Cricket", in Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age, ed. Stephen Wagg; Routledge, Abingdon, 2005, p. 140.
  4. ^ "Hindus v The Rest 1943–44". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  5. ^ "Amritsar Tournament 1940-41". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Other Matches played by The Rest". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 5 October 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2017.