Cricket

All Cricket research agrees at the game of cricket is derived from a very old, widespread and uncomplicated pastime in which one player threw an object, be it a small piece of wood or a ball, and another hit it with a custom- fashioned club. It is widely agreed that the first recorded evidence of cricket being played was in Guildford, Surrey,England, around 1550. The first reference to cricket being played outside England was in 1676 in Aleppo, Syria. The first official international match was played in 1844 between Canada and the USA. The game spread to different parts of the world, especially in the Common wealth of Nations…..Read More