At the end of the 17th century, cricket became a significant sport and spread throughout England and abroad thanks to mariners and colonisers.
The first mention of cricket overseas is from A newspaper report tells about a great cricket match played in Sussex for fifty guineas apiece. They established this term to distinguish their game from professional cricket players who often were part of the working class. They wanted to be separate to the point of having different changing and dining facilities while playing. The gentry created their rule of honour code to claim leadership rights in any contest they enrolled in.
It was even more essential for them when they needed to play with the working class. Many people started to see leading idols in amateurs successful in cricket. Financially, professionals played for a wage or match fee under contract, and amateurs played only for expenses.
In fact, they used to claim far more than they spent to participate in the game. In the 18th century, the game was developed. In London, cricket was prominent from In the middle of the century, huge crowds spectated matches on the Artillery Ground in Finsbury.
The technique of the game changed. Bowlers used to roll or skim the ball, and they started to pitch it towards the batsman. The new club became a premier club and the custodian of the Laws of Cricket. The 19th century saw underarm bowling superseded, first by roundarm and then overarm bowling. Both developments were controversial. In Sussex, there were eight new clubs, and they created the first County Championship. A stone was used in the place of a ball, and the players used a simple bat shaped from a branch.
A tree stump or a wooden stool acted as the wicket. As time passed the game developed and the tools used during matches evolved as well. The earliest form of a cricket game is said to have been a children's game in parts of England.
It could also have borrowed the Dutch term — krick -e which means a stick. The game of cricket evolved from a simple game whereby a player bowled a ball at a tree stump or wicket gate, and another player stopped the ball with a simple bat. A variety of similar games were played in England between the 13th century and 16th century. The earliest bats used in matches were like hockey sticks, which were long and heavy.
The ball was bowled along the ground in the early stages of the game, unlike today where it is tossed in the air. The earliest cricket match ever recorded took place at Kent in Me, I love it.
The origins of the game of cricket are lost in the mists of time. There is a reference in the household accounts of King Edward I in of a game much like cricket being played in Kent. The English game originated in the sheep-raising country of the Southeast, where the short grass of the pastures made it possible to bowl or roll a ball of rags or wool at a target.
In reality, there were actually a large number of different games played under a variety of local rules. The idea of a single pastime evolving seamlessly into the sport we know and love is appealing but not very likely. However, hitting a ball with a stick does seem to have been a popular pastime.
Whatever the variety or origins of games played, records show that Edward II wielded a bat, and it was suggested that Oliver Cromwell also played the game. The earliest types of bats were much like a hockey stick—long, heavy clubs curved outward toward the bottom. The design of the bat reflected the type of bowling that was prevalent at the time—fast, underarm bowls rolled along the ground.
By the eighteenth century, the bat had developed into a heavier, longer, curved version of our modern bat—the handle and blade were carved out of a single piece of wood. The first recorded cricket match took place in Kent in , and by the late s, fines were actually handed out for those who missed church to play.
Cricket was popular and widely documented in England during the s. In , William Goldwyn published the first description of the game. He wrote that two teams were first seen carrying their curving bats to the venue, choosing a pitch and arguing over the rules. They had four-ball overs, the umpires leaned on their staves which the batsmen had to touch to complete a run , and the scorers sat on a mound making notches.
The stumps must be twenty-two inches high and the bail across them six inches. The ball must be between five and six ounces, and the two sets of stumps twenty-two yards apart.
It appears that 40 notches was viewed as a very big score, probably due to the bowlers bowling quickly at shins unprotected by pads. During the s and s, it became common to pitch the ball through the air rather than roll it along the ground.
This innovation gave bowlers the weapons of deception through the air, length, plus increased pace.
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