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The first reference to cricket being played as an adult sport was in 1611, and in the same year, a DICTIONARY defined cricket as a boys' game. ... In the first half of the 18th Century cricket established itself as a leading sport in London and the south-eastern COUNTIES of England.

Cricket is believed to have been INVENTED in South England. Some RESEARCHERS claim that the game was played from as early as the 13th century. In the early days, cricket was played by children in the countryside. A stone was used in the place of a ball, and the players used a simple bat shaped from a branch.

Origin. Cricket was probably created during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex.

The first recorded cricket match took place in Kent in 1646, and by the late 1600s, fines were actually handed out for those who missed church to play. Cricket was popular and widely documented in England during the 1700s. In 1706, William Goldwyn published the first description of the game.

William Gilbert Grace

W. G. Grace

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Full name William Gilbert Grace

Born 18 July 1848 Downend, near Bristol, England

Died 23 October 1915 (aged 67) Mottingham, Kent, England

Nickname W. G., The Doctor, The Champion, The Big 'Un, The Old Man

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