How The Name Cricket Named To The Game Cricket?
24 November 2009
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How the name cricket named to the game cricket? Is it bcos named after the bug cricket?
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Cuz cricket rhymes with wicket.
A basic form of cricket can be traced back to the 13th century, but it may have existed even earlier than that. The game seems to have originated among children of the farming and metalworking communities in the Weald between Kent and Sussex. Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1300.
In 1598, a court case referred to a sport called kreckett being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford around 1550. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this as the first recorded instance of cricket in the English language.
A number of words are thought to be possible sources for the term “cricket”. The name may derive from a term for the cricket bat: old French criquet (meaning a kind of club) or Flemish krick(e) (meaning a stick) or in Old English crycc (meaning a crutch or staff). (The latter is problematic, since Old English ‘cc’ was palatal in pronunciation in the south and the west midlands, roughly ch, which is how crycc leads to crych and thence crutch; the ‘k’ sound would be possible in northern dialects, however.) Alternatively, the French criquet apparently derives from the Flemish word krickstoel, which is a long low stool on which one kneels in church and which resembles the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket.
Edit – @Indian Pride : I didn’t knew this too. I just searched this in wikipedia.
Tough question, go read history of England in 17th century AD, becoz at that time the sport was invented and u will get some stuff on it…..
@Nero, Whoa!!! u know a lot about cricket!!!!
@Nero, ookay!!
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