There is a consensus of expert opinion that cricket may have been invented during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England. The first reference to cricket being played as an adult sport was in , and in the same year, a dictionary defined cricket as a boys' game.
There is also the thought that cricket may have derived from bowls, by the intervention of a batsman trying to stop the ball from reaching its target by hitting it away. The International Cricket Board still operates today under the name of the International Cricket Council and now includes 12 countries, which are referred to as Test Nations in cricket terminology. Cricket saw a seismic shift in popularity after the invention of Twenty20 Cricket in The new form of the game was a much shorter three-hour version compared to Test Cricket matches which last around five days.
Fans immediately became attracted to the shorter version, especially the younger generation. Due to the time limits per inning, players were changing the way they played to a more fast-paced and flashy style. The sport was seeing a lot more Six's, which is the equivalent of a home run in baseball , attracting more and more fans who previously considered the game to be boring and too lengthy.
Cricket is commonly played in India, England, and Australia. Each country has an international team that competes in Test Matches as well as a separate Twenty20 league.
The three countries have devoted fan bases that regularly attend matches selling out the majority of them. Australia, South Africa, and England were the first nations to play the sport and compete against one another. Over the years, they developed intense rivalries with one another, especially England and South Africa.
In South Africa dominated England in a match, and the next day an English Newspaper, The Sporting Times, published a fake obituary stating that English cricket had perished and that "the body will be cremated and the ashes will be taken to Australia.
The 19th century saw underarm bowling superseded, first by roundarm and then overarm bowling. Both developments were controversial. In Sussex, there were eight new clubs, and they created the first County Championship. The most famous player of the 19th century was W. Grace, who started his long career in During his playing career, distinguishing between professional and amateur started to disappear. Grace was nominally an amateur, but financially he was paid as a professional, in fact, far more than any professional that days.
In the middle of the 19th century, cricket established itself in Australia, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, North America and South Africa, so in every corner of the world where the British Empire managed to reach.
In , the first-ever international match took place between the United States and Canada. Fifteen years later, an English team travelled overseas to play in the USA tournament for the first time.
Three years later, English players made a tour to Australia. In , the Australian team of Aboriginal stockmen toured England. In the 20th century, Test cricket expanded.
South Africa was banned from international cricket from to due to the apartheid boycott. Throughout the English countryside, each year in late April and early May, that familiar sound of leather ball against willow bat can once again be heard, signifying the start of a new cricket season.
A game, which could perhaps be described as a cross between baseball and chess. A game, which takes five days to play and more often than not ends in a draw. The MCC became the supreme authority on the complex rules of the game and its base, Lords named after a founder member of the club, Thomas Lord in St. Johns Wood, London , remains the spiritual home of the game.
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