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Early Cricket
Cricket before 1800
Introduction
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History
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Up to 1700 – formative years in schools and villages
1701 – 1770 – Cricket grows in London
1770 – 1785 – The Hambledon Glory Years
1786 – 1800 – The MCC emerges
Sides
Grounds
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White Conduit Fields Ground
Players
Matches
Library
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Modern histories
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Cricket history books
History Of Cricket by E.W. Swanton
Ladybird Story of Cricket
Early History of Cricket – E.D.R. Edgar
Older books
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The Hambledon Men edited by E.V. Lucas
The Cricket Field by James Pycroft
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England by Joseph Strutt
A Country Cricket Match
Poems
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In Certamen Pilae (About a ball-game)
Cricket, An Heroic Poem, by James Love
The Echoing Green by William Blake
Lord Byron – Childish Recollections (excerpt)
William Wordsworth
CRICKET
Gallery
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Very early images
The Cricket Field
Youth and Schools
Other
Miscellany
Early Cricket
Cricket before 1800
Main Menu
Introduction
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Sitemap
History
Menu Toggle
Up to 1700 – formative years in schools and villages
1701 – 1770 – Cricket grows in London
1770 – 1785 – The Hambledon Glory Years
1786 – 1800 – The MCC emerges
Sides
Grounds
Menu Toggle
White Conduit Fields Ground
Players
Matches
Library
Menu Toggle
Modern histories
Menu Toggle
Cricket history books
History Of Cricket by E.W. Swanton
Ladybird Story of Cricket
Early History of Cricket – E.D.R. Edgar
Older books
Menu Toggle
The Hambledon Men edited by E.V. Lucas
The Cricket Field by James Pycroft
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England by Joseph Strutt
A Country Cricket Match
Poems
Menu Toggle
In Certamen Pilae (About a ball-game)
Cricket, An Heroic Poem, by James Love
The Echoing Green by William Blake
Lord Byron – Childish Recollections (excerpt)
William Wordsworth
CRICKET
Gallery
Menu Toggle
Very early images
The Cricket Field
Youth and Schools
Other
Miscellany
A Country Cricket Match
Mary Russell Mitford
