HISTORY OF CRICKET

The game of cricket has a known history spanning
from the 15th century [1] to the present day,
No one knows when or where cricket began but
there is a body of evidence, much of it
circumstantial, that strongly suggests the game
was devised during Saxon or Norman times by
children living in the French Flanders (in the
hamlet of Liettres) and in Weald , an area of dense
woodlands and clearings in south-east England
that lies across Kent and Sussex
A number of words are thought to be possible
sources for the term "cricket". In what could be
the earliest known reference to the sport in 1478
it was called criquet in France . A
hundred years later, in 1598 England
it was called creckett