THE HISTORY OF CRICKET

THE HISTORY OF CRICKET. The game cricket was played in England 500 years ago . By the 17 century cricket had evolved to be recognize as a district game. Cricket was introduced to India by British sailors in the 18th century, and the first cricket club was established in 1792. The exact origins of cricket are unknown, but are believed to date back to the 16th century, the name deriving from the Anglo-Saxon word ' cricc ', meaning a shepherd's staff ..

. During the 1760s and 1770s it became common to pitch the ball through the air rather than along the ground ..

ORIGINS OF INDIAN CRICKET. The origins of Indian cricket are to be found Bombay and the Indian community to start playing the game was the small community of Zoroastrians , the Parsis .Brought into close contact with British because of their interest in trade and the first Indian community to Westernise . The Parsis founded the first indian cricket club , the Oriental Cricket Club , In bombay in1848 ..

MODERN CRICKET. Modern cricket is dominated by tests and One-day internationals, played between national teams . The players who become famous, who live on in the memories of cricket’s public, are those who have played for their country . The played Indian fans remember ever now are those who were fortunate enough to to play test cricket . C.K. Nayudu , an outstanding Indian batsman of his time..

Shafali Verma Biography. Shafali Verma is an Indian cricketer who plays for the India women's national cricket team. In 2019, at the age of 15, she became the youngest cricketer to play in a Women's Twenty20 International match for India. During her childhood, Verma initially played cricket disguised as a boy due to a lack of girls' cricket academies in Rohtak ..

Careeer. Before international cricket, she played for Velocity in the Women's T20 Challenge in which she scored 34 runs in 31 balls. In September 2019, she was named in India's Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) squad for their series against South Africa . She made her WT20I debut for India at the age of fifteen, against South Africa , on 24 September 2019. She was the youngest player to play for India in a T20I match, [11] and in November 2019 against the West Indies , became the youngest half-centurion for India in international cricket.gainst the West Indies, she scored 158 runs in five matches, and was named the player of the series..