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{{Infobox cricket team<br />
| name = Burma cricket team<br />
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| founded = 1894<br />
| last_match = 1927<br />
| ground = [[BAA Ground]], [[Rangoon]]<br />
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| first_fc = [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]]<br />
| first_fc_year = 1927<br />
| first_fc_venue = [[BAA Ground]]<br />
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The '''Burma cricket team''' was an Indian cricket team which represented the province of [[British Burma|Burma]] in [[British Raj|British India]].<br />
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==Beginnings and First-class debut==<br />
Burma played minor matches against touring Europeans teams which visited colonial India and Ceylon in 1894 and 1912,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/0/557/Miscellaneous_Matches.html Miscellaneous matches played by Burma]</ref> until their first-class debut in 1927. The players also played for the [[Rangoon Gymkhana cricket team]] which sometimes participated in the Calcutta Triangular Tournament. Burma also played against the [[Straits Settlements cricket team|Straits Settlements]] in the [[Interport matches]] from 1906 to 1909.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://singaporecricket.org/history/ |title=History |publisher=singaporecricket.org }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/cricket-in-singapore-77300/ |title=Cricket in Singapore |publisher=ESPNCricinfo |date=3 April 2007 }}</ref><br />
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Burma played a single [[first-class cricket|first-class]] match in January 1927 at the [[BAA Ground]] against the touring [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC), resulting in a [[The result in cricket|win]] for MCC.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/12/12171.html Burma v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1926/27]</ref><ref name="cc">{{cite web |url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/burma-myanmar-resist-a-rampant-maurice-tate-nobody-knows-where-263147/ |title=Burma (Myanmar) resist a rampant Maurice Tate; nobody knows where |publisher=Cricket Country |last=Mukherjee |first=Abhishek |date=12 March 2015 }}</ref> The team was captained by [[Hubert Ashton]], the [[Cambridge University cricket team|Cambridge University]] and [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]] batsman.<ref>''European Cricketers in India'', [[Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians|ACS]], 2002.</ref> The team consisted of British expatriates and Indians CA Murad and AE Bham who had played in the [[Bombay Tournament (cricket)|Bombay Quadrangular]] tournament.<br />
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==Decline==<br />
Following the partition of Burma from British India and its creation as a separate crown colony, the sport took a backseat and faded out due to the loss of patronage from the British elites and Indian community after Burmese independence.<ref name="cc"/> Cricket remained a minority sport in the country until 2006 when [[Myanmar Cricket Federation|Myanmar]] became an affiliate member of the [[International Cricket Council]].<br />
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==Notable players==<br />
{{Main|List of Burmese first-class cricketers}}<br />
* [[Hubert Ashton]]<br />
* [[Herbert Aston]]<br />
* [[FitzAlan Drayson]]<br />
* [[Basil Eddis]]<br />
* [[Frank Garnett]]<br />
* [[Charles McCarthy (cricketer)|Charles McCarthy]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/0/557/First-Class_Matches.html Burma cricket team] at CricketArchive<br />
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[[Category:First-class cricket teams in India]]<br />
[[Category:Former senior cricket teams in India]]<br />
[[Category:Cricket in Myanmar]]<br />
[[Category:1894 establishments in India]]<br />
[[Category:Cricket clubs established in 1894]]<br />
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