About cricket and it's history. Briefly described. Accurate information.

1. The different forms of Cricket

2. • Cricket was invented in the vast fields of England,
supposedly by shepherds who herded their flock. Later
on this game was shown appreciation by aristocrats and
now cricket has the stature of being England's national
game. The expansion of the British Empire led to cricket
being played overseas and thus earning itself a high
standing all over the world.
• After almost a century now, cricket stands in the
international arena, with a place of its own.

3. Origin
No one knows when or where
cricket began but there is a body
of evidence 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

4. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a
children's game for many generations before it
was increasingly taken up by adults around the
beginning of the 17th century. Playing on sheep-
grazed land or in clearings, the original
implements may have been a matted lump of
sheep’s 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 as the wicket.

5. There are various forms
of the game of cricket.
Broadly speaking there
are the following broad
types of the game :
 Test Cricket
 One Day Internationals
(ODIs)
 Twenty 20(T20)

6. Test cricket is the longest form of the
sport of cricket. Test matches are
played between national
representative teams with "Test
status", as determined by the
International Cricket Council (ICC).
The two teams of 11 players play a
four-innings match, which often lasts
up to five days. The origin of the
name Test stems from the long,
grueling match being a "test" of the
relative strength of the two sides.

7. A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited over
cricket, played between two teams with international
status, in which each team faces a fixed number of over ,
usually fifty. The Cricket World Cup is played in this
format. One Day International matches are also called
Limited Over Internationals (LOI), although this generic
term may also refer to Twenty20 International matches.

8. Twenty20 cricket, sometimes
written Twenty-20, and often
abbreviated to T20, is a short
form of cricket. It was originally
introduced by the England and
Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in
2003 for professional inter-county
competition in England and
Wales. In a Twenty20 game the
two teams have a single inning
each, which is restricted to a
maximum of 20 overs.

9. The first recorded match
of women's cricket was
reported in The Reading
Mercury on 26 July 1745,
a match contested
“between eleven maids
of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambleton, all dressed
in white." The first known women's cricket club was
formed in 1887 in Yorkshire, named the White Heather
Club.

10. In Australia, a women's cricket league was set up in
1894, while in South Africa, Port Elizabeth had a
women's cricket team, the Pioneers Cricket Club. In
Canada, Victoria also had a women's cricket team that
played at Beacon Hill Park.

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