How did Cricket, the sport, get it's name?

Answer 1

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 northern dialects, 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

Answer 2

Ask Prince Charles of England.

Answer 3

Please check the following link for details;

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