history of cricket

  Cricket is one of the oldest sport in the world.Infact the first international team sport contest happens to be a cricket match between Canada and the USA during some time at 1844.
the history of the sport are traced back to the 16th century England.
  In the earliest definite reference to the sport in 1598,Its called creckett.

According to the wikipediaThe earliest definite reference to cricket being played in England (and hence anywhere) is in evidence given at a 1598 court case which mentions that "creckett" was played on common land in Guildford, Surrey, around 1550. The court in Guildford heard on Monday, 17 January 1597 (Julian date, equating to the year 1598 in the Gregorian calendar) from a 59 year-old coroner, John Derrick, who gave witness that when he was a scholar at the "Free School at Guildford", fifty years earlier, "hee and diverse of his fellows did runne and play [on the common land] at creckett and other plaies."^[13][14] It is believed that it was originally a children's game but references around 1610^[14]indicate that adults had started playing it and the earliest reference to inter-parish or village cricket occurs soon afterwards. In 1624, a player called Jasper Vinall was killed when he was struck on the head during a match between two parish teams in Sussex.^[15]

 This way the game gradually found its place to various colonies of great britain,and it became popular all over the world.Nowadays the game is widely played in places like UK, south asia,australia,newzealand ,south africa,carribean and the world over.