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Cricket is a sport primarily of English origin, but its real origin is not known with certainty, as this varies between Australia and England for being the first nations to develop the sport, however is said to be of English origin, due to name “crick” in that language means stick.

The first signs of the sport were in the mid eighteenth century where the ball hit bat or began to practice in countries like Australia and England and thanks to the great amusement and / or entertainment that they provided were gaining popularity very quickly.

In the early nineteenth century the development of cricket was already a fact, since the creation of fields for the development of this and the adequacy of rules for it and show it on the other hand and due to the above, in countries as mentioned above, this sport already had such height that was considered almost a national sport, and therefore the end of this century, more exactly in 1877, was cricket to the world as a highly competitive sport and high future by developing the first test match cricket mach or between teams or groups in England and Australia.

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