Origin of cricket?

Question

Origin of cricket?

Answer 1

in england..........

it started first as an underarm sport....underarm bowling....and bats resembled hockey sticks........

and played by rich gentlemen.............

after that it got modified through years....

to the way it is now...............

Answer 2

England! I think!!

Answer 3

Not known, but mostly England.

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Answer 4

UK

Answer 5

officially in England

Answer 6

india

Answer 7

Surprisingly England.

Answer 8

India. Used to be called Gilli-Danda but as the time passed the Danda got larger and the Gilli got rounder. The British can't take the credit for the origin of cricket. Lord Krishna played cricket himself.

Answer 9

Origin

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. In medieval times, the Weald was populated by small farming and metal-working communities. 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.

It is quite likely that cricket was devised by children and survived for many generations as essentially a children’s game. Adult participation is unknown before the early 17th century. Possibly cricket was derived from bowls, assuming bowls is the older sport, by the intervention of a batsman trying to stop the ball reaching its target by hitting it away. Playing on sheep-grazed land or in clearings, the original implements may have been a matted lump of sheep’s wool (or even a stone or a small lump of wood) as the ball; a stick or a crook or another farm tool as the bat; and a stool or a tree stump or a gate (e.g., a wicket gate) as the wicket

Answer 10

England