The aim of the batting team is to score the highest number of runs while the aim of the fielding team is to get the batting team out (10 wickets) for the lowest amount of runs.Īlthough there are 11 players (cricketers) in each team, only ten people need to be given “out” as you cannot have one person batting alone. One team will then bat while the other team will bowl & field. The captain who guesses the correct side of the coin will then choose if they want to bat or field first.
A different article will cover the full history as the rules changed, the equipment changed and the bats changed.īefore any game begins an official (Umpire) will toss a coin. Here follows the breakdown of the game as it is played today. Internationally, cricket is governed by the International Cricket Council (ICC), which has over one hundred countries and territories in membership although only twelve currently play Test cricket. International matches have been played since the 19 th century and formal Test cricket matches are considered to date from 1877.Ĭricket is the world’s second most popular spectator sport after soccer. The point I’m trying to make is: that the noble sport of cricket has been around for a very long time. Australia was discovered in 1606, New Zeeland was discovered in 1642 and in 1652 Jan van Riebeeck set foot in the Cape of Good Hope. It was the reign of James I, son of Mary, Queen of Scots (1603-1625), and Shakespeare was writing poetry and plays. What happened in the world around that time?
The first reference was cricket being played as an adult sport and in the same year, a dictionary defined cricket as a boys’ game. What we do know is that the first recorded cricket game was recorded in southeast England in 1611. Like the soccer ball was picked up and ran within the reported origins of rugby. It could be that in a game off bawls, a player took a stick to knock the oncoming ball away. It is assumed and suggested that it was an adaptation from another game. The true origin is lost to history, but the point is, the game lives on. A ball and a stick and hitting it as far as possible. I think we can assume it was a group of men entertaining themselves.
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