The Origins of the Game of Cricket

The origins of the game of cricket are lost in the mists of time. The first ever reference to cricket being played is thought to be in the 13^th century. Originally an English game, cricket was born among the shepherds. Years ago, cricket was quite different from the cricket we know today. In fact, two different games were played, which were similar to present day cricket. They were club ball and stool ball. This game spread to the whole world through colonization by the English and today it is one of the most loved sports of the world, especially countries like India, Pakistan and Australia.

As the One Day Internationals became more and more popular, the International Cricket Council began thinking about the idea of starting a world cup. The opening Cricket World Cup was held in 1975 in England, as it was the only country at that time that had enough resources to hold the event.

The tournament kicked off on 7 June 1975, and the first three Cricket World Cup tournaments were held in England and were sponsored by Prudential, therefore the tournament was named the Prudential World Cup.

In old times India was one of the countries who is playing cricket game from 36 years India was loving most 4 games and these games were kabaddi, gilli danda, hockey and cricket from these cricket and hockey went to a international level but cricket went in 1975 and hockey ......... so the interest in cricket increased in the game

Now about people there was radio came new in villages so they would come to listen cricket commentary was only one entertainment so people were having fun in it do it starts to become more popular and in that time in 1983 India won his 1^st world cup by the kapil dev so it was becoming more and more popular

And then June 15, 2001 cricket came into the film Lagaan and the movie went to International film festivals so the whole India give support to cricket and it become the game of their life and today India is mad for cricket in that then 24 Sep 2007 ... India wins the First 20-20 Cricket World Cup. After 24 years of wait India lifted the First Twenty20 World Cup and the craze increase in infinity then it come in a type of business  IPL T20 and cricket has become a fashion to India           

In the 1900 Olympics in Paris, cricket was included as an Olympic sport and England won against France, winning the gold medal. In 1912, the first Triangular Tournament was played which was a tournament involving all three of the test playing countries of that time which were England, South Africa and Australia. This was not very successful and so in the following years only two teams played in a tournament until 1999, when the next multilateral tournament was played called the Asian Test Championship.

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