There are many playgrounds where many young people play cricket, the national sport.
The entire history of cricket in India and the sub-continent as a whole is based on the existence and development of the British Raj via the East India Company.
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Robert Vansittart, son of the Henry Vansittart, the Governor of Bengal from 1759 to 1764, and is credited with scoring the first recorded century in cricket in India