Who invented cricket

When we start talking about the popularity of games, cricket is the second most popular game worldwide after football. But so many questions arise in our mind related to cricket, like who invented this popular game, and when and where it was first played.

The early cricket

It is believed that cricket was introduced in the 13th century as a sport in which the young boys throw the ball at a tree stump or barricade gate into a sheepfold. Many experts have agreed that the origin of the cricket was during the Saxon or Norman times by young children who lived in the Weald, a place in South East England that is fully covered with trees.

• In 1611, it was the first time when cricket was played like the sport of adults. It was determined as a boy's game in one of the dictionaries in the same year only. It is also believed that the game of cricket is taken up from the bowls by the interruption of a batsman putting efforts to stop the ball from getting to its objective by striking it apart.
• In the mid-17thcentury, village cricket was evolved, and the first English "country teams were created in the other half of the century. They were the "local experts" from the village cricket and were hired as the first professionals. In 1709, for the first time in the game, the team used the country name.
• In the 18th century, in London and the South Eastern nations of England, cricket became the foremost athletics. However, its emergence was not fast, but it steadily gained fame and adoration in various parts of England. In 1745, women also started playing the sport, and the first match was held in Surrey.

Changes in early cricket

• In 1744, the first rules and regulations were framed and implemented, in which leg before wicket (lbw), a 3rd stump- the middle stump, and the utmost bat breadth were built on. These cricket codes were formulated by a popular cricket club, i.e., "Star and Garter club" at that time.
• In 1760, rotating the ball along with the ground was displaced after the bowlers started to throw the ball. As a result of this modification, the old "hockey- stick " type bat was used in place of the straight one.
• Before the establishment of the MCC, the Hambledon Club in Hampshire acted as the centerpiece of the sport for approximately 30 years.
• In 1787, at the lord's, the star and garter club members eventually established the very well-known Melbourne cricket club. MCC instantly turned to be the overseer of the laws and is continually making a view since then to the present day.

How cricket reached so many countries?

• Cricket was initiated in North America through the English territories in the early 17th century.
• In the mid of eighteen century, cricket was introduced in many countries. It was initiated in the West Indies by the colonizers.
• In India, British East India company sailors started the game of cricket. In 1788, with the beginning of imperialism, cricket was introduced to Australia.
• The sport outstretched in South Africa and New Zealand in the early period of the nineteenth century.

Cricket in last 50 years

Cricket has evolved in a major way in the last 20 years. Along with the termination of the British empire, the old ICC leadership was forced to disintegrate. Some older Territories formed their cricket potentials and confronted the "traditional " cricketing strength. The feedback was outstanding, and the countries playing the sport became two times in the 50 years since 1948.

• Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe were the added nations. In addition, the non-white "majors" exceeded the "white" ones on the ICC.
• Cricket was also introduced to the "minor" nations with no professional players or sports provisions. The minors now have their world championship.
• In addition, 100 countries that are playing cricket are added to the listing of the latest ICC.

Nowadays cricket is the second most famed athletics world succeeding Soccer, which is inferred concerning money, media coverage, politics, and deception.

Ace players in the history of cricket

• WG Grace was the first elite cricketer who played 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908. He was very much well known due to his one-upmanship. Once he ran three, when the ball far-flung from the ground, he grabbed the ball, hide the ball in his pocket, and ran to gain three more runs.
• Sachin Tendulkar from India is the top batsman who scored 15,921 runs in 200 tests and 18,426 runs in one-day internationals and is the only player made 100 international centuries. He became the first player to attain 30,000 international runs.
• Another legendary cricketer, Sir Garfield Sobers, from the West Indies, was the first player in the history of cricket to hit six sixes in a single over off six successive balls, and he did this in first-class cricket that held between Nottinghamshire and Glamorgan in 1968.

Top stats related to crickets

• Shoaib Akhtar, a Pakistani cricketer, recorded the fast bowling against England, which was 161.3 km per hour in the 2003 World cup held in South Africa.
• Hanif Mohammad became the batsman with the longest test innings of 970 minutes, i.e., more than 16 hours. He scored 337 runs for Pakistan in opposition to the West Indies. Later he stated, he did the batting for 999 minutes.
• Brian Lara, a batsman from the West Indies, is the player who individually scored 400, not out in opposition to England in the Test match held in Antigua in 2004. Brian Lara is also the one who gained the top score of 501, not out in the first-class cricket for Warwickshire versus Durham in Edgbaston in 1994.