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Early Cricket
Cricket before 1800
Introduction
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Sitemap and objectives
History
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Prehistory – up to 1600
The very early days – 1600s
Cricket spreads to London – 1700 – 1770
The Hambledon years – 1770 – 1785
Emergence of MCC – 1786 – 1800
Clubs
Grounds
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White Conduit Fields Ground
The Artillery Ground
Broadhalfpenny Down
Windmill Down Cricket Ground
Dorset Square- the first Lord’s Ground
Players
Matches
Women’s Cricket
Library
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Earlly writings
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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 and songs
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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
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
Gallery
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Very early images
The Cricket Field
Youth and Schools
Other
Miscellany
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Evolution of stumps, bat and bowling
Kit and Equipment
Laws
Cricket outside England
Early Cricket
Cricket before 1800
Main Menu
Introduction
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Sitemap and objectives
History
Menu Toggle
Prehistory – up to 1600
The very early days – 1600s
Cricket spreads to London – 1700 – 1770
The Hambledon years – 1770 – 1785
Emergence of MCC – 1786 – 1800
Clubs
Grounds
Menu Toggle
White Conduit Fields Ground
The Artillery Ground
Broadhalfpenny Down
Windmill Down Cricket Ground
Dorset Square- the first Lord’s Ground
Players
Matches
Women’s Cricket
Library
Menu Toggle
Earlly writings
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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 and songs
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
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
Gallery
Menu Toggle
Very early images
The Cricket Field
Youth and Schools
Other
Miscellany
Menu Toggle
Evolution of stumps, bat and bowling
Kit and Equipment
Laws
Cricket outside England
Return to London, emergence of MCC, first Lord’s ground 1785 – 1800
