A brief history of cricket

The origin of cricket lies somewhere in the dark ages - probably since the Roman Empire, almost certainly before the Normans invaded England and almost certainly somewhere in Northern Europe. All research acknowledges that the game derived from a very old, widespread and uncomplicated game by one player serving a single object, be it a small piece of wood or a ball, and another struck him with a suitable club classics.

How and when this club-ball game turned into a player, when cast against defended target is simply not known. Nor is there evidence as to when points were awarded depends on the extent to which player was able to send the missiles, nor when helpers joined the two-player contest, thus beginning the evolution into a team game or in the definition of for release 'Last Scorer at both ends of the pitch was adopted.

Etymological scholarship is different game set to Celtic, Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, Dutch and Norman-French traditions, sociological historians have variously attributed to its medieval development of high-born landowners hand, Emigré Flemish cloth workers, shepherds closer cropped downland of the South England and close-knit communities of iron and glass-workers in the deep sea open space. Most of these theories have a solid academic base, but none is sufficient evidence to establish a watertight case. The study continues.

What is that by Tudor times cricket had evolved far enough from the ball club to be recognizable as a game played today, it is well established in many parts of Kent, Sussex and Surrey, as in a few years it has become a feature of leisure time and a significant number of schools - a sure sign of greater acceptance of each game - that has become popular enough among young people to gain his approval of the local judiciary.

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