John Derrick was a pupil at the Royal Grammar School, then the Free School, in Guildford when he and his friends played creckett circa 1550 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. Possibly cricket was derived from bowls, assuming bowls is the older sport, by the intervention of a batsman trying to stop the ball from reaching its target by hitting it away. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many generations before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th century. It has been suggested that "creag" was an Old English word for cricket, but expert opinion is that it was an early spelling of " craic", meaning "fun and games in general". The earliest of these speculative references is from 1300 and concerns the future King Edward II playing at "creag and other games" in both Westminster and Newenden. There have been several speculations about the game's origins, including some that it was created in France or Flanders. The first definite written reference is from the end of the 16th century. Main article: History of cricket to 1725 Origin Ĭricket was created 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.
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