Brief introduction to History of cricket

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2. WHAT IS SPORT ?
• Sport is all forms of usually competitive
physical activity which, through casual or
organized participation, aim to use,
maintain or improve physical ability and
skills while providing entertainment to
participants, and in some cases,
spectators.
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3. • Nearly 500 years ago cricket developed in rural England
• Cricket grew out of many stick-and-ball games played, under a
variety of different rules.
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4. • It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game
• Children were living in the Weald in south-
east England (Kent and Sussex).
• Playing on sheep-grazed land sheep’s wool
or even a stone as the ball a stick or another
farm tool as the bat and a stool or a tree
stump or gate as the wicket.
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5. The History Of Cricket Bat
• Before 18th century cricket bat was curved like Hockey sticks.
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6. • This curved bats help in making contact with a ball that was ball in
underarm at that time.
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7. The History Of Cricket Bats. 7

8. The bats used presently are much
different from the bats used previously.
First bats of 1720, had a curving
outwards at the bottom. This shape
gave the batsmen the best chance of
making contact as the ball was thrown
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9. First Definite Reference
• The first definite reference to the game is found in a 1598
court case concerning dispute over a school's ownership of a
plot of land.
• A 59-year old coroner, John Derrick, testified that he and his
school friends had played cricket on the site fifty years earlier.
• The school was the Royal Grammar school Guildford, and Mr.
Derrick's account proves beyond reasonable doubt that the
game was being played in Surrey c.1550
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10. • The first reference to cricket being played as
an adult sport was in 1611.
• When two men in Sussex were prosecuted for
playing cricket on Sunday instead of going to
church.
• The first recorded match took place in Kent in
1646.
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11.  Amateurs: The rich people who played for pleasure.
Professionals: The poor people who played for a
living.
The wages of the professionals were paid by
subscription.
 The game was seasonal and did not offer
employment the year round.
The amateurs were called the ‘Gentlemen’and the
professionals were called the ‘Players’.
Cricket and Victorian England

12. • The game was originally played on unfence land in English
villages.
• Size of ground was not defined.
• Which is vary one village to another village.
• No defined boundaries.
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13. • But distance from the boundaries was not
defined.
• Till today size & shape of the ground which vary across the world.
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14. • The Lows Of Cricket was first written in 1744.
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15. LAWS OF CRICKET 1744
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16. • 1774 -LBW law defined.
• 1795- First recorded case of a dismissal "leg before
wicket".
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FIRST LBW

17. LBW out in the first official Test cricket between Australia
and India in 1948.

18. World’s First Cricket Club
• The world’s first cricket club was formed in
Hambledon in the 1760s.

19. Marylebone Cricket Club(MCC)
• The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was
founded in 1787.
• In1788, the MCC published its first revision of the
laws and became the guardian of cricket’s regulations.
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21. • Bowers start to ball over-arm style.
• This was help to increase their speed.
• The no ball is the penalty for overstepping, which means the hind foot going in
front of the bowling crease (i.e., in direct line of the wicket);
• Width of the bat limited to 4 inches.
• A over finish within four balls.
• The umpire cannot give a batsman out if the
fielders do not appeal.
• The wicket keeper is required to be still and quiet
until the ball is bowled.
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22. • The popping crease is exactly 3 feet ten inches before the bowling crease.
• It is interesting that hitting the ball twice and obstructing the field are
emphatically out, given experiences in the 17th century.
• Umpires must allow two minutes for a new batsman to arrive and ten
minutes between innings (meal and rain breaks presumably excepted).
• The umpire is allowed a certain amount of discretion and it is made clear
that the umpire is the "sole judge" and that "his determination shall be
absolute"
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23. International Cricket Council
• When the ICC (imperial cricket conference) was founded in
1909 the test cricket was established, only England, Australia
and south Africa were members.
• Renamed the international cricket conference in 1965, and
took up its current name in 1989.
• India, West Indies and New Zealand became test nations
before the second world war and Pakistan soon afterwards.
• The ICC has 106 members: 10 full members that play-official
test matches

24. TEST CRICKET
• In early days game was played timelessly.
• It went on a side was played twice completely.
• In 19th century during the industrial revolution
timeless test matches were replace in five day test
matches.
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25. TEST CRICKET
• The first officially recognized Test match began on 15 March
1877, between England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket
Ground (MCG)
• It Australia won by 45 runs.
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27. TEST CRICKET
• In 1889 the immemorial four ball over was replaced by a five
ball over.
• Then this was changed to the current six balls an over in 1900.
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28. One Day International
• The first ODI was played on 5 January 1971.
• Between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket
Ground.
• When the first three days of the third Test were washed out
officials decided to abandon the match
• Then instead, play a one-off one day game consisting of 40
overs per side. Australia won the game by 5 wickets. That
ODIs were played in white kits with a red ball
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29. • Scorecard of the first
ODI match.
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30. Twenty20 Cricket
• T20 cricket originally introduced by the
England and wales cricket board in 2003.
• For professional inter-county competition in
England and wales. In A twenty20 game the
two teams have A single innings each, which is
restricted to A maximum of 20 overs.
• Then first international T20 match was played
in 2005 Australia vs. New Zealand at Eden
Park in Auckland. .
• Australia won by 44 runs
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31. • Scorecard of the first T20 match.
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