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When did cricket start?

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Games in which various kinds of balls are hit by various kinds of sticks or bats have existed for a thousand years or more

England was the pioneer of cricket and spread it around during colonization. All the Commonwealth nations play it.

Cricket began in southeast England and the first clear references to it date from the late 16th century. It may have begun as a children's game but records from around 1610 show that it was being played by adults. Not long after that we have references to matches between neighboring parishes and villages.

There is, however, no record of a specific date or place where cricket, as distinct from other ball and bat games, began.

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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.

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it started in 1783

actualy the first county cricket match was in 1719

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W G Grace made Cricket more popular and started bringing batting and Bowling back into the world.

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cricket started in England they were the first team to play

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Cricket was played first in england where it was called as Gentlemens game played on sundays to relax out with hockey like shaped bats....

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England

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