Talha Khan
Main article: History of cricket[->0]
Early cricket was at some time or another described as "a club striking a ball (like) the ancient games of club-ball, stool-ball, trap-ball, stob-ball".[3] Cricket can definitely be traced back to Tudor times in early 16th-century England. Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward[->1], the son of Edward I (Longshanks)[->2], at Newenden, Kent in 1301[4] and there has been speculation, but no evidence, that this was a form of cricket.
A number of other words have been suggested as sources for the term "cricket". In the earliest definite reference to the sport in 1598,[5] it is called creckett. Given the strong medieval trade connections between south-east England and the County of Flanders[->3] when the latter belonged to the Duchy of Burgundy[->4], the name may have been derived from the Middle DutchHYPERLINK \l "cite_note-6"[6][->5] krick(-e), meaning a stick (crook); or the Old English[->6] cricc or cryce meaning a crutch or staff.[7] In Old French[->7], the word criquet seems to have meant a kind of club or stick.[8] In Samuel Johnson[->8]'s Dictionary, he derived cricket from "cryce, Saxon, a stick".[9] Another possible source is the Middle Dutch word krickstoel, meaning a long low stool used for kneeling in church and which resembled the long low wicket[->9] with two stumps[->10] used in early cricket.[10] According to Heiner Gillmeister, a European language expert of Bonn University[->11], "cricket" derives from the Middle Dutch phrase for hockey[->12], met de (krik ket)sen (i.e., "with the stick chase").[11] Dr Gillmeister believes that not only the name but the sport itself is of Flemish origin.[12]
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[->15][->16]The first English touring team on board ship at Liverpool[->17] in 1859
The earliest definite reference to cricket being played in England (and hence anywhere) is in evidence given at a 1598 court case which mentions that "creckett" was played on common land in
Early cricket was at some time or another described as "a club striking a ball (like) the ancient games of club-ball, stool-ball, trap-ball, stob-ball".[3] Cricket can definitely be traced back to Tudor times in early 16th-century England. Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward[->1], the son of Edward I (Longshanks)[->2], at Newenden, Kent in 1301[4] and there has been speculation, but no evidence, that this was a form of cricket.
A number of other words have been suggested as sources for the term "cricket". In the earliest definite reference to the sport in 1598,[5] it is called creckett. Given the strong medieval trade connections between south-east England and the County of Flanders[->3] when the latter belonged to the Duchy of Burgundy[->4], the name may have been derived from the Middle DutchHYPERLINK \l "cite_note-6"[6][->5] krick(-e), meaning a stick (crook); or the Old English[->6] cricc or cryce meaning a crutch or staff.[7] In Old French[->7], the word criquet seems to have meant a kind of club or stick.[8] In Samuel Johnson[->8]'s Dictionary, he derived cricket from "cryce, Saxon, a stick".[9] Another possible source is the Middle Dutch word krickstoel, meaning a long low stool used for kneeling in church and which resembled the long low wicket[->9] with two stumps[->10] used in early cricket.[10] According to Heiner Gillmeister, a European language expert of Bonn University[->11], "cricket" derives from the Middle Dutch phrase for hockey[->12], met de (krik ket)sen (i.e., "with the stick chase").[11] Dr Gillmeister believes that not only the name but the sport itself is of Flemish origin.[12]
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[->15][->16]The first English touring team on board ship at Liverpool[->17] in 1859
The earliest definite reference to cricket being played in England (and hence anywhere) is in evidence given at a 1598 court case which mentions that "creckett" was played on common land in