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12:18 AM on October 13, 2008
srini vasan's Answer
Cricket was started in 16th century. But international matches was started in 1844, although the official history of international test cricket began in 1877. During this time the game developed from its origins in England into game which is now played professionaly in the most of the Common Wealth Series. No one knows when & where cricket was began but there is body of evidence, much of it circumstantial, that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the weald, an area of dense woodland and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. In medieval times, the weald was populated by small farming and metal-working communities. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a childrens game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up adult around the beginning of the 17th century.
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