Who Created Cricket

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Cricket may have been invented by youngsters who lived in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in southeast England, during the Saxon or Norman eras. A dictionary also refers to cricket as a boy's game in 1611, the year it was first recognized as an adult sport. There is also the theory that cricket may have evolved from bowls as a result of a batsman's attempt to deflect the ball away from its intended aim.

By the middle of the 17th century, village cricket had advanced, and the first English "county teams" were created in the second half of the century, when "local experts" from village cricket were hired as the sport's first professionals. In 1709, the sides played in the first game in which county names were used.

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Cricket became well-known as a major sport in London and the south-eastern counties of England during the first part of the 18th century. Travel restrictions prevented it from spreading much, but it was gradually gaining popularity in other regions of England. The first game of women's cricket is recorded to have taken place in Surrey in 1745, marking the beginning of the sport.

The initial Cricket Laws were drafted in 1744, and they were later revised in 1774 to include innovations like leg before wicket, a third stump, the middle stump, and a maximum bat width. The "Star and Garter Club," whose members later established the renowned Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's in 1787, was responsible for creating the codes. MCC immediately assumed custody of the Laws and has been making updates ever since until the present.

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When bowlers started to pitch the ball after 1760, rolling the ball down the ground was replaced. In response, the straight bat took the place of the previous "hockey-stick" kind of bat. Before the MCC was founded and Lord's Cricket Ground opened in 1787, the Hampshire-based Hambledon Club served as the game's hub for roughly thirty years.

Cricket was first introduced to North America through the English colonies in the 17th century, and it spread to other areas of the world in the 18th century. Colonialists brought it to the West Indies, and British East India Company sailors brought it to India. In the early years of the 19th century, the sport reached New Zealand and South Africa before making its way to Australia practically as soon as colonization got underway in 1788.