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The M. J. Gopalan Trophy was an annual first-class cricket competition played between Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Madras (now Tamil Nadu) between 1952-53 and 2007-08. ==History== The idea of the competition came about with the starting of a silver jubilee fund in 1952 to celebrate M.J. Gopalan's 25 years as a cricket and hockey player. Through the fund, an annual cricket match was instituted between Madras and Ceylon and named after Gopalan. The trophy was donated by the Madras cricket administrator V. Pattabhiraman and was presented to the victors after the first match by Learie Constantine.〔Neil Wijeratne, ''Batting on a Matting Wicket'', Neil Wijeratne, Wattala, 2011, pp. 170-180.〕 Ceylon won the first match.〔(Madras v Ceylon 1952-53 )〕 The match became a regular fixture in the calendar until Sri Lanka received Test status in 1983 and the competition was stopped. It was revived in 2000 with a match between Tamil Nadu and a Colombo District Cricket Association.〔 〕 Two years later the fixture was dropped again but in 2007 the Sri Lankan and Tamil Nadu boards agreed to restart the competition.〔 〕 A match was played in September 2007 between Tamil Nadu and a Sri Lankan XI, won by the Sri Lankan team.〔(Sri Lanka Cricket XI v Tamil Nadu 2007-08 )〕 No matches for the trophy have been played since. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「M. J. Gopalan Trophy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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