INDICATORS ON MATCH YOU SHOULD KNOW

Presented Derrick's age, it was about 50 % a century earlier when he was at school, and so it is for certain that cricket was getting performed c. 1550 by boys in Surrey.[twelve] The view that it was at first a children's recreation is bolstered by Randle Cotgrave's 1611 English-French dictionary through which he defined the noun "crosse" as "the