Sunday, 4 March 2012

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Fast Facts and history of cricket game

The history of cricket to 1725 traces the sport's development from its perceived origins to the stage where it had become a major sport in England and had been introduced to other countires.
The earliest decinite reference to cricket occurs in 1598 and makes clear that sport was being played c. 1550 , but its true origin is amystery. All that can be said with a fair degree of probability is that its beginning was earlier than 1550, somewhere in south-east Enagland with batsmen, bowlers and feelders, such as stoolball and rounders, crickdet can only be played on relatively short grass, especially as the ball was delivered along the ground until the 1760s. Therefore, forest clearings and land where sheep had grazed would have been suitable places to play. It is belived that cricket was started in England in 1300 A.D.
Their are some important information points about to cricket are given below.
1.It started as a game of shepherds and became populer among other classes in 18th century A.D.
2. After some time a clube known as "Merylebone Cricket Club"(M.C.C) was formed at Lord in London.
3. Cricket became popular in Australia due to British influence there.
4. The first official cricket test match was played 15 March in the year 1877 between Australia and England in Melbourne which was won by Austtalia.
5. when some other countries started playing cricket imperical crickdt conference was formed in 1909 which gave birth to international cricket conference in 1956.
6.The first One Day international cricket match was played in 1971 between England and Australia in Melbourne.
7. The first world cup of one day matches was played in 1975  in London. Wset Indies won the world cup beating Australia by 17 runs.
8. The apex institution of world cricket is the International Cricket concile(ICC) and its headquarters is now in Dubai from August 1,2005. Earlier it was in Lord(England)
9. The president of ICC is Mr. Percy Sonn of south Africa..\
10. Australia has won maximum of three world cups till date, West Indies and India has won two two.