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The first reference to cricket 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. [7] In the same year, a dictionary defined cricket as a boys' game, and this suggests that adult participation was a recent development. [ 5 ]
If there was a lapse in cricket at this time, the more likely causes would be either: (a) the South Sea Bubble which ruined many investors and so could have reduced cricket patronage; or (b), as Waghorn himself mentions, "the (news)papers were small, and space limited, the advertising and reporting (of) matches ceased". [97]
Jack Williams, of The Independent, was more critical, finding that the biographical approach taken by Major resulted in "a potted history of a particular time in a chapter's first pages without any explanation of the effects of social and economic changes on cricket" and opining that academic historians would find the background history to be ...
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played on a cricket field (see image of cricket pitch and creases) between two teams of eleven players each. [75] The field is usually circular or oval in shape, and the edge of the playing area is marked by a boundary , which may be a fence, part of the stands, a rope, a painted line, or a combination of these ...
Pro Cricket was operated by American Pro Cricket LLC (APC), a private company independent of the ICC and the USACA. New Jersey cricket figure Kalpesh Patel was one of the key players and acted as Commissioner while Australian Robert Smith filled the role of Assistant Commissioner and game operations specialist. The league was formed in 2004 as ...
A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport is a 2002 book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha that offers a historical account of cricket in the Indian subcontinent. [1] Some critics have called it one of the finest books on cricket. [2] [3]
History of Canadian cricket; History of cricket to 1725 (for early English cricket) History of cricket in India to 1918; History of cricket in Kenya; History of cricket in New Zealand to 1890; History of cricket in Pakistan from 1947 to 1970; History of cricket in South Africa to 1918; History of cricket in Sri Lanka; History of United States ...
The earliest definite reference to cricket in New Zealand appears in 1832 in the diary of Archdeacon Henry Williams. [1] Three years later, HMS Beagle visited the Bay of Islands on its voyage round the globe. Charles Darwin watched a game of cricket at Waimate North being played by freed Maori slaves and the son of a missionary.