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• Introduction
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• History
  • 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
  • White Conduit Fields Ground
• Players
• Matches
• Library
  • Modern histories
    • Cricket history books
    • History Of Cricket by E.W. Swanton
    • Ladybird Story of Cricket
    • Early History of Cricket – E.D.R. Edgar
  • Older books
    • 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
    • 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
  • Very early images
  • The Cricket Field
  • Youth and Schools
  • Other
• Miscellany