when did cricket start being?

Answer 1

~ ~~~official history of international Test cricket began in 1877
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Answer 2

A basic form of cricket can be traced back to the 13th century, but it may have existed even earlier than that. The sport seems to have originated among children of the farming and metal-working communities in the southern English counties of Kent and Sussex.

Written evidence exists of a game known as "creag" being played by Prince Edward, the son of King Edward I, at Newenden in Kent, in 1300.

In 1598, a court case referred to a sport called "kreckett" being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford in Surrey around 1550. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this as the first ever recorded instance of cricket being mentioned in the English language.

Answer 3

Have a read

Cricket, 17th century-style
©TopFoto.co.uk Centuries ago, a game was developed that involved one player throwing a missile, perhaps a large stone, at a target, which another player tried to defend. It is thought that the target may at first have been the wicket-gate to a sheep pasture (origin of the wicket in the modern-day game), while the defending player would have used his shepherd’s crook (or "crick", as it was then known) as a bat.


An intriguing reference in the household accounts of Edward I for 1300 mentions the King’s son, Prince Edward, playing a game that sounds very like cricket with his best friend, Piers Gaveston, at Newenden in Kent. The first written record of an organised match played between teams, as opposed to two individuals, dates from 1646. Between those times, cricket had become a popular pastime among country labourers, but it was only in the 18th century that it began to be played by the gentry, whose landed estates provided plenty of space for marking out pitches.




Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850). The seventh son of King George III, depicted as a young man with a cricket bat
©TopFoto.co.uk The first cricket club in England was founded in the 1750s at one such estate at Hambledon in Hampshire. Basic rules were worked out, specifying the length of the pitch, the size of the wickets and the weight of the ball, and some of today’s recognised bowling and batting techniques were established. At this time, the bat still bore some ancestral resemblance to the shepherd’s crook, having a curve at the end a little like a modern hockey stick. It wasn’t until the 1780s that the laws of cricket as a national game were formulated with the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in London.

In 1853, the modern bat – now straight-sided and made of willow wood with a rubber-coated handle – was introduced. The ball was by now a cork sphere, bound in hand-stitched leather pieces and dyed red.


An advert for John Wisden & Co. cricket bats, 1895
©TopFoto.co.uk/Public Record Office /HIP Cricket thrived in public schools, where it was held to be the less hectic alternative to rugby or football for turning out gentlemen players. An annual fixture in the sporting calendar from the early 19th century until 1963 was the Gentlemen vs Players match, in which the recognised cricketers of the day would be taken on by a team of university students and older pupils from the public schools.

Answer 4

Cricket was started in 1954

Answer 5

The game of cricket has a known history spanning from the 16th century to the present day. The international matches played since 1844 and , official history of international Test cricket began in 1877

Formore details, please checkthe following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cricket

Answer 6

In the 1800's when england was king at cricket and was looking for competition. But that was test, ODI's started much later.

Answer 7

Not sure when it satarted being played but I think the first match was played at Lords Cricket Ground.

Answer 8

in the 1800's......but international cricket started in the 1900's