Describe the early history of cricket in the West Indies.

(i) Cricket was brought to the colonies like India and West Indies by the British
Officials hut they did not try to spread it because the subjects or people in these colonies were non-white.
(ii) As the playing cricket had become a sign of superior social and racial status, the local people -were discouraged to play cricket which remained dominated by the white plantation owners and their servants.
(iii) At the end of the nineteenth century. the first non-white club was established in the West Indies. Its members were, however, light-skinned mulattos (people of mixed European and African decent). So club cricket remained to be dominated as late as 1930s by the white elites’ However white black people played enormous amount of cricket on beaches. in back allyes and parks.