Origins of cricket

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Cricket is one of many games in the ‘club ball’ sphere that basically #implicate #imply #include *involve hitting a ball with a hand-held implement; others #implicate #imply *include #involve baseball, golf, hockey, tennis, squash, badminton and table tennis. In cricket’s case, a key #contrast *difference #exception #similarity is the existence of a solid target structure, the wicket, that the batter must defend. The cricket historian Harry Altham #diagnosed #divided *identified #spotted three groups of club ball games: the hockey group, the golf group and the cricket group. | It is generally believed that cricket #derived #launched #occurred *originated as a children’s game in the south-eastern counties of England during the medieval period. *Although #Because #Despite #However there are claims for prior dates, the earliest definite #citation #data #mention *reference to cricket being played comes from evidence given at a court case in Guildford in 1598. A witness said that as a schoolboy he had played ‘creckett’ and other games. | The #attitude #concept #proposal *view that it was originally a children’s game is #boosted #fortified *reinforced #stressed by Randle Cotgrave’s 1611 English-French dictionary in which he #characterized *defined #described #interpreted the noun ‘crosse’ as ‘the crooked staff wherewith boys play at cricket’ and the verb form ‘crosser’ as ‘to play at cricket’.