History Of The Most Popular Sport: Cricket

Cricket is one of the most played sports of India and has a fan following in India. Everyone knows about cricket. Every India has a basic knowledge of this game. Every newborn here buys a ball or cricket bat as their first sports equipment. It is quite famous here but its history didn’t lie in India. It is originated in the late 16th century in South- East England. Cricket becomes the national sport of England in the 18th century and become globally known in the 19th century. There is an agreement of well-qualified assessment that cricket may have been concocted during Saxon or Norman occasions by youngsters living in the Weald, a space of thick forests and clearings in southeast England. The principal reference to cricket being played as a grown-up sport was in 1611, and around the same time, a word reference characterized cricket as a young men's down. There is additionally the prospect that cricket may have gotten from bowls, by the intercession of a batsman attempting to prevent the ball from arriving at its objective by hitting it away.

Cricket was acquainted with North America using the English provinces as ahead of schedule as the seventeenth century, and in the eighteenth century it showed up in different pieces of the globe. It was acquainted with the West Indies by homesteaders and to India by British East India Company sailors. It started up in Australia near about when colonization started in 1788 and the game arrived in New Zealand and South Africa in the early long stretches of the nineteenth century.

In the early 18 century cricket become the most important sport to London and all South-Eastern Countries of England. The first law was written and amended in the year 1774 and also some new rules get invented and added in the rule book of cricket. The international matches of cricket came into the spotlight in 1844 and after that many international matches get introduces and many trophies came into existence. Some of the commonly known matches in the Twenty20 world cup, IPL, and ICC Intercontinental Cup. Cricket is continuously growing all over the world and has become the second most popular sport in the world. Cricket is not just a game in the 21st century it is a world in itself. People are immensely dedicated to it and always look forward to it for what happens next.

By: Riya Chaudhary

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