"No one knows when or where cricket began but there is a body of evidence, much of it circumstantial, that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th century
Despite many prior suggested references, the first definite reference to the game is found in a 1597 court case concerning dispute over a school's ownership of a plot of land. A 59-year old coroner, John Derrick, testified that he and his school friends had played kreckett on the site fifty years earlier. The school was the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Mr Derrick's account proves beyond reasonable doubt that the game was being played in Surrey c.1550.
The first reference to it being played as an adult sport was in 1611, when two men in Sussex were prosecuted for playing cricket on Sunday instead of going to church. In the same year, a dictionary defines cricket as a boys' game and this suggests that adult participation was a recent development."
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2006-12-24 16:56:39
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answered by Albertan 6
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England
2006-12-25 05:20:19
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answered by hitesh s 3
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England
2006-12-25 01:00:28
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answered by vakayil k 7
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The international one-day game is a late twentieth-century development. The first ODI was played on 5 January 1971 between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
2006-12-25 04:33:32
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answered by Narendra 2
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4) chine
2006-12-28 03:51:05
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answered by rahul m 2
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Chine... Right
2006-12-25 01:01:37
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answered by Anonymous
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the first match was played between England and Austrailia. It was a test match as odi's weren't invented then.
2006-12-25 02:00:20
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answered by manofseries 3
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it is england who played yhe first cricket as they originated the game
2006-12-25 05:26:29
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answered by Anonymous
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england
2006-12-26 07:33:11
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answered by dinne 1
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england
2006-12-25 10:58:16
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answered by Anonymous
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