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Subject: CriCket Lovers
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dr.aamir 1.10.12 - 12:22pm
The game of cricket has a known history spanning from the 16th century to the present day, with international matches played since 1844, although the official history of international Test cricket began in 1877. During this time, the game developed from its origins in England into a game which is now played professionally in most of the Commonwealth of Nations. *
dr.aamir 1.10.12 - 12:23pm
No one knows when or where cricket began but there is a body of evidence, much of it circumstantial, that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. In medieval times, the Weald was populated by small farming and metal-working communities. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th century.. *
dr.aamir 1.10.12 - 12:24pm
It is quite likely that cricket was devised by children and survived for many generations as essentially a childrens game. Adult participation is unknown before the early 17th century. Possibly cricket was derived from bowls, assuming bowls is the older sport, by the intervention of a batsman trying to stop the ball from reaching its target by hitting it away. Playing on sheep-grazed land or in clearings, the original implements may have been a matted lump of sheeps wool (or even a stone or a small lump of wood) as the ball; a stick or a crook or another farm tool as the bat; and a stool or a tree stump or a gate (e.g., a wicket gate) as the wicket. *
dr.aamir 1.10.12 - 12:32pm
ICC Test Championship
RankCountryRating
1 South Africa 120
2 England 117
3 Australia 116
4 Pakistan 109
5 India 106
6 Sri Lanka 98
7 West Indies 90
8 New Zealand 76
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