KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -There is a consensus of expert opinion that cricket may have been invented during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England.

Detailed explanation-2: -cricket, England’s national summer sport, which is now played throughout the world, particularly in Australia, India, Pakistan, the West Indies, and the British Isles. Cricket is played with a bat and ball and involves two competing sides (teams) of 11 players.

Detailed explanation-3: -The sport of cricket has a known history beginning in the late 16th century. Having originated in south-east England, it became an established sport in the country in the 18th century and developed globally in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Detailed explanation-4: -As early as c. 1611, a cricket match was recorded at Chevening in Kent between teams representing the Downs and the Weald. A number of words in common use at the time are thought to be possible sources for cricket’s name. In the earliest known reference to the sport in 1597, it is called creckett.