Cricket at Aligarh Muslim University started in 1878 when the mathematics professor, Rama Shankar Mishra, founded a cricket club, whose members were expected to wear a uniform of blue flannel coat, shirt, knickerbockers and cap.
[1] In 1884 Theodore Beck took the club on a tour round the Punjab including a match against Government College, Lahore.
[2] In the year 1903 Oxford University Authentics visited India and played a two-day match at Aligarh.
[3] The remarkable historical match of 'MAO College Cricket Team' / 'Aligarh Eleven' was played in Patiala in February 1900 AD.
It went on to play two more first-class matches, against Hyderabad and Freelooters, in the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament in 1931.