Women`s cricket, which is organized and played separately, has also achieved international standards.

Meanwhile, the British Empire had been instrumental in spreading the game overseas, and by the middle of the 19th century, it had become well established in Australia, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, North America, and South Africa.

The earliest reference to cricket is in South East England in the mid-16th century. The ball was bowled underarm by the bowler and along the ground towards a batsman armed with a bat that, in shape, resembled a hockey stick the batsman defended a low, two-stump wicket and runs were called notches because the scorers recorded them by notching tally sticks. In cricket's case, a key difference is the existence of a solid target structure, the wicket (originally, it is thought, a 'wicket gate' through which sheep were herded), that the batsman must defend.Īlthough the main object of the game has always been to score the most runs, the early form of cricket differed from the modern game in certain key technical aspects the North American variant of cricket known as wicket retained many of these aspects. It is generally believed that cricket originated as a children's game in the south-eastern counties of England, sometime during the medieval period.Ĭricket is one of many games in the 'club ball' sphere that basically involves hitting a ball with a hand-held implement others include baseball (which shares many similarities with cricket, both belonging in the more specific bat-and-ball games category.

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Cricket defend the wicket