Where was cricket first started and its description?

Question

in which country and where in that country

Answer 1

The 1st recorded cricket match took place in Kent in 1646 .

Cricket was popular and widely documented in England during the 1700s.

First-class cricket is treated as having started in 1801.

Cricket  originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In some countries in South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular sport.

Answer 2

The 1st recorded cricket match took place in Kent in 1646 and, by the late 1600s fines were actually handed out for those missed church church to play. Cricket was popular and widely documented in England during the 1700s. In 1706 William Goldwyn published the 1st description of the game. He wrote that 2 teams were 1st seen carrying their curving bats to the venue, choosing a pitch and arguing over the rules. They pitched 2 sets of wickets, each with a "milk-white" bail perched on two stumps; tossed a coin for 1st knock, the umpire called "play" and the "leathern orb" was bowled. They had 4-ball overs, the umpires leant on their staves (which the batsmen had to touch to complete a run), and the scorers sat on a mound making notches.

Answer 3

Cricket is believed to have originated in England in the 15th century. In the old newspapers of 1700 we can see the advertisements of cricket matches. The first recorded country cricket match was played in the year 1719. By the year 1750 the pitch was fixed as 22 yards long with a two stump wicket, 22 inches high, & 6 inches wide. Bat was long & curved. Players used to wear white shirts, breeches, stockings & a sort of top hat. In the year 1750,"The Hambledon Club" was founded. Hambledon, was a small village in Hampshire, but it became very popular when its team defeated one representing the rest of England. Bowling was underarm, but skill is setting the field & in wicket keeping soon developed. In the year 1781, Lord's Cricket Ground opened & in the year 1814, it moved to its present site. On the year 1788, Marylebone Cricket Club (M.C.C) was founded & it became the ruling body for cricket. By the year 1800, the wicket was fixed at 27 inches by 9 inches. Overarm bowling was not recognised until the year 1864. Test cricket began with matches in Australia in the year 1877 when Lilly White's English touring side was defeated by a combined Australian team. The first test match in England was played in the year 1880 & with the exception of the war years, test matches have continued ever since. However, one day cricket matches with limited overs are gaining much popularity now a days.

Answer 4

CRICKET WAS STARTED IN ENGLAND

Answer 5

cricket was first played by sailors who were nomads in 1721.but at that time the shape of the bat was like a hockey stick and the game was not developed.hence the origin of cricket is supposed ti be from Britain from the presticious city of London

Answer 6

it was started in England in Lords

Answer 7

Cricket was invented by children of the farming and metalworking communities in the Weald between Kent and Sussex during the medieval period..

Answer 8

In Australia & England

Answer 9

Cricket can be traced back to the 16th century but it may have originated much earlier than that. The most common theory of origin is that it was invented by children of the farming and metalworking communities in the Weald between Kent and Sussex during the medieval period. Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1300 and there has been speculation, but no evidence, that this was a form of cricket.

In 1598, a court case referred to a sport called creckett being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford around 1550. This is the earliest definite mention.

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.

During the 17th century, numerous references indicate the growth of cricket in the south-east of England. By the end of the century, it had become an organised activity being played for high stakes and it is likely that the first professionals appeared in that period. We know that "a great cricket match" with eleven players a side was played for high stakes in Sussex in 1697 and this is the earliest reference we have to a cricket match of such importance.

The game underwent major development in the 18th century and had become the national sport of England by the end of the century. Betting played a major part in that development with rich patrons forming their own "select XIs". Cricket was prominent in London as early as 1707 and large crowds flocked to matches on the Artillery Ground in Finsbury. The Hambledon Club was founded in the 1760s but the Hambledon parish team was already playing first-class matches in 1756. For the next 20 years until the formation of MCC and the opening of Lord's in 1787, Hambledon was the game's greatest club and its focal point. MCC quickly became the sport's premier club and the custodian of the Laws of Cricket.

The 19th century saw underarm replaced by first roundarm and then overarm bowling. Both developments were controversial. Organisation of the game at county level led to the creation of the county clubs, starting with Sussex CCC in 1839, which ultimately formed the official County Championship in 1890.

In 1844, the first ever international cricket match took place between the United States and Canada (although neither has ever been ranked as a Test-playing nation).Cricket entered a new era in 1963, when English counties introduced a variant form of cricket match that would be sure to produce a result: games with a restricted number of overs per side.

Answer 10

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Historically first official cricket match was played between USA and Canada

Answer 11

Written and pictorial records of cricket may go back to the Plantagenet period, although it is impossible to distinguish between what may be cricket and its brothers, cat and dog, stool-ball, rounders etc., and even at times its cousins, hockey and golf. The firmest, though still not secure, pictorial evidence is an illustration apparently of a man demonstrating a stroke with a stump to a boy holding a straight club and a ball in a Decretal of Pope Gregory IX that was illuminated in England; while in the Wardrobe Accounts of the Royal Household for the year 1300 the sums of 100 shillings and 6 pounds are mentioned as being spent on "creag" and other sports of Prince Edward (the grandfather of the Black Prince).

In the Tudor period there are references to boys playing "creckett" and in the seventeenth century there are many references such as that by Sir William Dugdale that Oliver Cromwell played cricket in his youth, while in 1653 Sir Thomas Urquhart even makes Gargantua play cricket in his translation of Rabelais. At the very end of this century cricket makes its appearance in the newspapers, a trend that grows rapidly in the eighteenth century but is concerned with announcements of matches, the wagers involved and, occasionally, the ensuing riots rather than with descriptions of matches. Rather different is the "Code of 1744" that contains at least two strata, one of which, wherein for instance the ball is referred to as "she" rather than "it", is clearly rustic rather than metropolitan and may be of considerable antiquity. All this, however, cannot be classed as literature.

Literature begins, for cricket, suddenly, unexpectedly and fully grown, like Minerva from the head of Jupiter, in a Latin poem of 95 lines on a rural cricket match that was written by William Goldwin and published in his Musae Juveniles in March 1706. Little is known of the author: he left Eton for King's College Cambridge in 1700 and subsequently became Master of Bristol Grammar School and then was Vicar of Saint Nicholas, Bristol, until his death in 1747. His poem, In Certamen Pilae (On a Match at Ball), has been translated into English verse by Harold Perry in Etoniana in 1922 and, with copious scholarly notes, again into verse by H.P.-T. (P.F. Thomas) in Early Cricket the following year. In early spring "a chosen cohort of youths, armed with curved bats, ...descends rejoicing to the field". Each team tries to impose its own laws, until a grey-haired Nestor composes the squabble. They mark the pitch and on the stumps place the bail which "cries out for good defence" against "the leathern sphere". Two umpires stand "leaning on their bats" while the scorers "sit on a hummock ready to cut the mounting score on sticks with their little knives". The game begins and a batsman "propels the strident ball afar ...but a clearsighted scout (fieldsman) prepares his ambush in the deep and with outstretched palms joyfully accepts it as it falls ...and grief overwhelms those who silently mourn their friend's disaster". The tale of misfortune continues, and one batsman in going for a second run "falls headlong at the very foot of the wicket. (as) the shaken earth groans beneath his great weight" and the rustic throng exult in laughter". The other side fares better and "Victory , long striven for, noisily flaps its wings and fills the sky with the shouts and roars of success".

Cricket literature in English also gets off to a flying start with the appearance of Cricket: an Heroic Poem. illlustrated with the Critical Observations of Scriblerus Maximus. In 316 lines it describes the earliest match for which individual scores have been recorded, between Kent and England at the Artillery Ground, London, on June 18th 1744. It was written by James Love (really Dance), the bankrupt son of the architect of the Mansion House, who had taken to acting and writing for the stage to earn his living. It contains the much quoted couplet "Hail, cricket! Glorious manly, British Game! / First of all Sports! be first alike in Fame", as it lauds cricket to the detriment of "puny Billiards, where, with sluggish Pace, / The dull Ball trails before the feeble Mace" and even "Tennis self, thy sister sport" that cannot "charm, / Or with thy fierce Delights our Bosoms warm". Its style may, however, be better judged by the description of the fall of the famous lefthander Richard Newland of Slindon:

    The champion strikes. When scarce arriving fair,

    The glancing ball mounts upward in the air.

    The batsman sees it, and with mournful eyes

    Fixed on the ascending pellet as it flies,

    Thus suppliant claims the favour of the skies

    And now illustrious Sackville where he stood

    The approaching ball with cautious pleasure viewed,

    At once he sees the chiefs impending doom,

    And pants for mighty honours yet to come.

    Swift as the falcon darting on its prey,

    He springs elastic on the verdant way;

    Sure of success, flies upward with a bound,

    Derides the slow approach, and spurns the ground.

    Prone slips the youth, yet glories in his fall,

    With arm extended shows the captive ball.

The notes are worth reading, being partly informative of participants in the match and literary inspirations from Vergil and partly mock scholarly like that on Book 2, verse 47: "A Place there is.) Est in secessu Locus. The Author here has exactly follow'd the Example of all great Poets, both ancient and modern, who never fail to prepare you with a pompous Description of the Place where any great Action is to be perform'd."

A more frivolous poem on a cricket match appeared in 1773 when the Rev. John Duncombe wrote a parody on the ballad Chevy Chace called Burry Triumphant:

    The active Earl of Tankerville

    An even bet did make,

    That in Bourn paddock he would cause

    Kent's chief est hands to quake.

And so he did, for:

    Of byes and overthows but three

    The Kentish heroes gain'd,

    And Surry victor on the score,

    Twice seventy-five remain'd.

    Of near three hundred notches made

    By Surry, eight were byes;

    The rest were balls, which, boldly struck,

    Re-echo'd to the skies!

This called forth a rejoinder from John Burn by, an attorney-at-law in Canterbury. His description of the Duke of Dorset is memorable:

    His Grace the Duke of Dorset came,...

    Equall'd by few, he plays with glee,

    Nor peevish seeks for victory...

    And for unlike the Modern way

    Of blocking every ball at play,

    He firmly stands with bat upright,

    And strikes with athletic might,

    Sends forth the ball across the mead,

    And scores six notches for the deed.

A more unusual match was the subject of an anonymous poem of 1796: it was played between the one-legged and the one armed:

    ...Though bloody deeds by fortress wall

    Are parodied when bat and ball

    Defend and storm the stubborn wicket.

    Thus thought I, when with vision dim,

    With feeble step and loss of limb,

    Old warriors in the strife contended...

Poems could give advice, on cricket (1772):

    Ye bowlers take heed, to my precepts attend,

    On you the whole state of the game must depend,

    Spare your vigour at first nor exert all your strength,

    But measure each step, and be sure pitch a length.

    Ye strikers observe when the foe shall draw nigh,

    Mark the bowler advance with a vigilant eye;

    Your skill all depends upon distance and sight,

    Stand firm to your scratch, let your bat be upright.

and even through cricket on life (1756):

    The outward side, who place and profit want,

    Watch to surprise and labour to supplant;

    While those who taste the sweets of present winnings

    Labour as heartily to keep their innings.

    On either side the whole great game is play'd -

    Untry'd no shift is left, unsought no aid;

    Skill vies with skill, and pow'r contends with pow'r ,

    And squint-eyed prejudice computes their score.

The enthusiasm for cricket in the eighteenth century is well represented by a letter from Mary Turner of East Hoathly to her son in September 1739: "Last Munday youre Father was at Mr Payns and plaid at Cricket and come home pleased anuf for he struck the best Ball in the game and whished he had not anny thing else to do he wuld play Cricket all his life". However, the active participation in cricket of members of the nobility called forth adverse criticism from both poets and poetasters. Alexander Pope attacks probably Lord John Sackville in his "The Judge to dance his brother serjeant call, / The Senator at cricket urge the ball", while in 1778 a lampooner inveighs against the Duke of Dorset in his The Noble Cricketers:

    When Death (for Lords must die) your doom shall seal,

    What sculptured Honors shall your tomb reveal?

    Instead of Glory , with a weeping eye,

    Instead of Virtue pointing to the sky,

    Let Bats and Balls th' affronted stone disgrace,

    While Farce stands leering by, with Satyr face,

    Holding, with forty notches mark'd, a board -

    The noble triumph of a noble Lord!

The last words for the eighteenth century must, however, be for its most famous club, Hambledon, for which the Rev. Reynell Cotton, master of Hyde Abbey School, Winchester, wrote his Cricket Song:

    ...The wickets are pitch'd now, and measured the ground;

    Then they form a large ring, and stand gazing around -

    Since Ajax fought Hector, in sight of all Troy,

    No contest was seen with such fear and such joy.

    Derry down, etc Then fill up your glass, he's the best that drinks most.

    Here's the Hambledon Club!