When the Normans conquered England in 1066, they adapted the Saxon bat-and-ball sport into their own lawn-based feudal recreations.and, in the process, created a new kind of sport, which they apparently called "creagh" or "cricke". They were soon integrated into these rural communities, becoming part of Christian life in those places by about 1000 AD. The Church in Europe seems to have taken the lead in sponsoring these bat-and-ball sporting activities on their monastery lands, as part of community-wideĬelebrations following church services.perhaps the beginning of "Sunday afternoon cricket" !Įxpanded into the British Isles, these sporting activities entered Ireland and then Britain. By the 9th century, bat-and-ball games looking somewhat like cricket were being played in Italy, and also in Spain and In the 8th century, the monk Eustatius Cardonius was demonstrating a new bat-and-ball sport he had picked up from further east, to a conclave of cardinals in Florence, Italy. It is the Bat, the old "danda" of South Asia, that marks the beginning of early cricket. a stick designed to hit an object like a ball or similar projectile, so it could be fielded. What came in from the East was the "bat", i.e. The Romans, too, played a number of ball games.their sports looked like today's rugby, soccer and handball. The Greeks even played field hockey which they had learned from Egypt, and a throwing/fielding game called ephedrismos which used a wicket, or stick, as a target for a cricket-ball-sized ball. Team "ball" games had developed there since ancient times.
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Team sports were, of course, not new to Europe.
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In this, cricket could have behaved like two other imports into Europe from the Indian subcontinent certainly did, at about the same time- Chess, the board game of the Indian warriors which became the Persian "shatranj" from the Indian "chaturanga", and travelled via Constantinople into Europe.and the nomadic Gypsies who wandered away from the Indian deserts through Turkey into Eastern Europe, arriving there by the 10th century. The latest thinking on the origins of cricket is that it may have developed out of ancient bat-and-ball gamesįrom the Greater Punjab ("Doab") region of the Indian subcontinent straddling North India and Pakistan, which travelled through Persia by the 8th century or earlier. THE EARLIEST CRICKET History of Cricket: 700 - 1700 ADĬlick on any item below to go directly to that topic.Ĭlick on "Back" to return to Table of Contents.