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What is the origin of the game of cricket?
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Written and pictorial records of cricket may go back to the Plantagenet Period. [AR Little Wood- The Cricket Literature- 18th Century]
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What is the Plantagent Period? |
The Plantagenet period is the time when the Royal family of England was of the Angevin line (1154 - 1485). |
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Which games are the possible predecessors of Cricket? |
Cat and Dog, Stool ball, Rounders etc |
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Which is the first pictorial evidence of cricket? |
The first pictorial evidence is an illustration of a man demonstrating a stroke with a stump to a boy holding a straight club and a ball in a Decretal of Pope Gregory IX that was illuminated in England. |
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Who devised the game of cricket? |
Nothing can be said with certainty but circumstantial eveidence suggests that it was devised during Saxon and Norman times by Childern playing in Weald. |
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Where is Weald? |
An area of South-East England that lies across Kent and Sussex. |
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What are the first written references of Cricket? |
In the Wardrobe Accounts of the Royal Household for the year 1300 the sums of 100 shillings and 6 pounds are mentioned as being spent on "creag" and other sports of Prince Edward. In the Tudor period there are references to boys playing "creckett" and in the seventeenth century there are many references that Oliver Cromwell played cricket in his youth.In 1653 Sir Thomas Urquhart makes Gargantua play cricket in his translation of Rabelais. |
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When did the newpapers begin references to Cricket? |
By the end of 17th century. |
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Which is the first authentic reference to Cricket in literature. |
A Latin poem of 95 lines on a rural cricket match that was written by William Goldwin and published in his Musae Juveniles in March 1706.
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Which poem describes the earliest match for which individual scores were recorded? |
Cricket: an Heroic Poem. illlustrated with the Critical Observations of Scriblerus Maximus. |
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