MPPSC 2013 General Studies Solved Paper-1

(C) Despite its large international fan base, cricket has not made it into the Olympics. It was included in the original programme for the first modern Games in 1896 but taken out due to lack of entrants. Then in 1900, a team of British cricket players competed against the French Athletic Club Union (mostly comprising members of the British embassy staff) in Paris during that year’s Summer Olympics, which at the time were considered part of the World’s Fair.