28th December is an important day in the history
of Mumbai women’s cricket. Do you know why? Yes? No? Let me you tell you. Ms.
Aloo Bamjee, who is the pioneer of women’s cricket in Mumbai was born today.
Let us all thank her on her birth anniversary for starting the first ever
cricket club ‘Albees’ for girls.
Albees was established in
1969 and the nets were conducted at the Cricket Club of India (CCI) on
Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings. Albees had in their ranks Nutan Gavaskar, Sunil
Gavaskar’s sister, and Tina Lalo, a cousin of Farokh Engineer. Diana Edulji,
Albees’s most famous alumni, joined the club in 1971.
Aloo Bamjee
was not a cricketer herself, but her sheer love for the game gave birth to
Mumbai’s first ever cricket club for women which was called Albees. Her husband
who stood behind her like a pillar helped Aloo realize her dream of starting a
women’s cricket club in Mumbai. Ms. Bamjee looked like an old British lady and
was a woman of stringent rules and principles.
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