Which is the first cricket match played and who won by what margin?

Question

I want to know the countries involved and the dates of this match.

Answer 1

First Test Match as well as First One Day International Matches were played between Australia and England in the Melbourne
Cricket Ground, Australia on the following dates:

1st Test Match : From 15to to 19th March 1877,
Australia won by 45 Runs.

1st ODI : On 05.01.1971. Australia won by 5 Wickets

Answer 2

A basic form of the sport can be traced back to the 13th century, but it may have existed even earlier than that. The game seems to have originated among children of the farming and metalworking communities in the Weald between Kent and Sussex. Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1300.
In 1598, a court case referred to a sport called kreckett being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford around 1550. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this as the first recorded instance of cricket in the English language.
A number of words are thought to be possible sources for the term cricket. The name may derive from a term for the cricket bat: old French criquet (meaning a kind of club) or Flemish krick(e) (meaning a stick) or in Old English crycc (meaning a crutch or staff). (The latter is problematic, since Old English 'cc' was palatal in pronunciation in the south and the west midlands, roughly ch, which is how crycc leads to crych and thence crutch; the 'k' sound would be possible in the north, however.) Alternatively, the French criquet apparently derives from the Flemish word krickstoel, which is a long low stool on which one kneels in church and which resembles the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket.
During the 17th century, numerous references indicate the growth of cricket in the south-east of England. By the end of the century, it had become an organised activity being played for high stakes and it is likely that the first professionals appeared in that period. We know that a great cricket match with eleven players a side was played for high stakes in Sussex in 1697 and this is the earliest reference we have to cricket in terms of such importance. (Wikpedia)

Answer 3

The origins of cricket lie somewhere in the Dark Ages – probably after the Roman Empire, almost certainly before the Normans invaded England, and almost certainly somewhere in Northern Europe. All research concedes that the game derived from a very old, widespread and uncomplicated pastime by which one player served up an object, be it a small piece of wood or a ball, and another hit it with a suitably fashioned club.

How and when this club–ball game developed into one where the hitter defended a target against the thrower is simply not known. Nor is there any evidence as to when points were awarded dependent upon how far the hitter was able to despatch the missile; nor when helpers joined the two-player contest, thus beginning the evolution into a team game; nor when the defining concept of placing wickets at either end of the pitch was adopted. What is agreed is that by Tudor times cricket had evolved far enough from club–ball to be recognisable as the game played today; that it was well established in many parts of Kent, Sussex and Surrey; that within a few years it had become a feature of leisure time at a significant number of schools; and – a sure sign of the wide acceptance of any game – that it had become popular enough among young men to earn the disapproval of local magistrates.


Dates in cricket history


1550 (approx) Evidence of cricket being played in Guildford, Surrey.
1598 Cricket mentioned in Florio’s Italian–English dictionary.
1610 Reference to “cricketing” between Weald and Upland near Chevening, Kent. 1611 Randle Cotgrave’s French–English dictionary translates the French word “crosse” as a cricket staff.
Two youths fined for playing cricket at Sidlesham, Sussex.
1624 Jasper Vinall becomes first man known to be killed playing cricket: hit by a bat while trying to catch the ball – at Horsted Green, Sussex.
1676 First reference to cricket being played abroad, by British residents in Aleppo, Syria.
1694 Two shillings and sixpence paid for a “wagger” (wager) about a cricket match at Lewes.
1697 First reference to “a great match” with 11 players a side for fifty guineas, in Sussex.

For More info,try link:-
http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ABOUT_CRICKET/HISTORY/

Answer 4

The first official test match was played between Australia and England in Melbourne, March 15th – 19th 1877. Australia won by 45 runs.

Answer 5

The first official test match was played between Australia and England in Melbourne, March 15th – 19th 1877. Australia won by 45 runs

Answer 6

officially the cricket was played between england and australia... if i am right it was 1867 played in oval

where australia won the match around 150 runs odd
after the 100 hundread years they played the match in memory of that where the result was astonishingly same as in the year of 1867

australia won the match as the same run difference did in 1867

Answer 7

IT WAS PLAYED IN ENGLAND!