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v What is Cricket?

v Nomenclature

v Women’s Cricket

 

All of us like sports. In 16^th century, a new game was discovered. A new page has been added to the world of game namely creckett. At first it was considered just a child’s game and gradually it got the status of professional sports.

 

What is Cricket?

Cricket is a sport that can be depicted in single sentence as- Cricket is a game of strategy between two teams. Each team bats and fields in turn – the batters try to score runs; the fielders try to stop them. The team with the most runs wins.

Creckett

The sport of cricket has a known history beginning in the late 16th century originated in south-east England, it gave honour as the country's national sport in the 18th century. It established itself as a leading sport in London and the south-eastern counties of England during 1930’s.

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 as the wicket like gully cricket.

International matches have been played since 1844 which gave birth to Test cricket and came to limelight in 1877. It 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.

Nomenclature:

There have been several speculations about the game's origins including some that it was created in France or Flanders. The earliest of these speculative references is dated Thursday, 10 March 1300 and concerns the future King Edward II playing at "creag and other games" in both Westminster and Newenden. It has been suggested that "creag" was an Olde English word for cricket but expert opinion is that it was an early spelling of "craic", meaning "fun and games in general". In the earliest definite reference, it was spelled creckett. The name may have been derived from the Middle Dutch krick(-e), meaning a stick; or the French word criquet meaning a wooden post.

 

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18th century cricket

·         Patronage and players

·         Cricket expands beyond England

·         Development of the Laws

·         Survival of Cricket and restarted

 

19th century cricket

·         International cricket begins

·         National Championships

·         Balls per over

 

20th century cricket

·         Growth of Test cricket

·         Limited-overs cricket

·         Analytic and graphic technology

 

 

21st-century developments

The advent of Twenty20 cricket (T20) and the wild success of the IPL in the first decade of the 21st century led to a period of great innovation in the game. The new, truncated form of the game privileged batting, partly by restricting the placement of fielders and shortening the boundaries.

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Growth of Test cricket

When the Imperial Cricket Conference (as it was originally called) was founded in 1909, only England, Australia and South Africa were members. West Indies (1928), New Zealand (1930) and India (1932) became Test nations before World War II and Pakistan (1952) soon afterwards. The international game grew with several ICC Affiliate Members being appointed and, in the last quarter of the 20th century, three of those became full members: 

Sri Lanka (1982), Zimbabwe (1992) and Bangladesh (2000). They were followed in the early 21st century by Ireland and Afghanistan (both 2018).

Limited-overs cricket

In the 1960s, English county teams began playing a version of cricket with games of only one innings each and a maximum number of overs per innings. Starting in 1963 as a knockout competition only, limited-overs cricket grew in popularity and, in 1969, a national league was created which consequently caused a reduction in the number of matches in the County Championship.

Limited-overs cricket did have the advantage of delivering a result to spectators within a single day; it did improve cricket's appeal to younger or busier people; and it did prove commercially successful.

The first limited-overs international match took place at MCG in 1971 as a time-filler after a Test match had been washed out. It was tried simply as an experiment, but turned out to be immensely popular. Limited-overs internationals (LOIs) or ODIs have since grown to become a massively popular form of the game, especially for busy people who want to be able to see a whole match.

 

Analytic and graphic technology

Limited-overs cricket increased television ratings for cricket coverage. Innovative techniques introduced in coverage of limited-over matches were soon adopted for Test coverage. The innovations included

·        presentation of in-depth statistics and graphical analysis

·        miniature cameras in the stumps

·        high-speed photography and

·        computer graphics technology

enabling television viewers to study the course of a delivery and help them understand an umpire's decision.

 

Women’s Cricket

Women first played cricket in England in the 18th century. In 1887 the first club, White Heather, was formed, and it survived to 1957. In 1890 two professional teams known collectively as the Original English Lady Cricketers were in action.

In 1926 the Women’s Cricket Association was founded. The International Women’s Cricket Council was formed in 1958 by Australia, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and South Africa and later included India, Denmark, and several West Indian islands. A World Cup was instituted in 1973, two years ahead of men’s cricket, and England and Australia played in the first women’s matches at Lord’s in 1976.

Rules of the game

The 1947 Laws of Cricket allowed six or eight balls depending on the conditions of play. Since the 1979/80 Australian and New Zealand seasons, the six balls per over has been used worldwide and the most recent version of the Laws in 2000 only permits six ball overs.

 

ICC Rules of cricket: https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/cricket/rules-and-regulations/playing-conditions

Basic Rules: https://www.cricket-rules.com/

Facts

·      It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many generations.
·       The first reference to cricket being played as an adult sport was in 1611, when two men in Sussex were prosecuted for playing cricket on Sunday instead of going to church.
·       The first ever international cricket game was between the US and Canada in 1844. The match was played at the grounds of the St George's Cricket Club in New York.
·       First 500 Test matches were spread over 84 years, the next 500 occupied only 23.

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