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Early Cricket
Early Cricket

Cricket before 1800

  • Introduction
    • Sitemap and objectives
  • History
    • 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
    • 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
    • Earlly writings
      • 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
      • 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
      • Cricket history books
      • History Of Cricket by E.W. Swanton
      • Ladybird Story of Cricket
      • Early History of Cricket – E.D.R. Edgar
  • Gallery
    • Very early images
    • The Cricket Field
    • Youth and Schools
    • Other
  • Miscellany
    • Evolution of stumps, bat and bowling
    • Kit and Equipment
    • Laws
    • Cricket outside England
Early Cricket
Early Cricket

Cricket before 1800

  • Introduction
    • Sitemap and objectives
  • History
    • 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
    • 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
    • Earlly writings
      • 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
      • 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
      • Cricket history books
      • History Of Cricket by E.W. Swanton
      • Ladybird Story of Cricket
      • Early History of Cricket – E.D.R. Edgar
  • Gallery
    • Very early images
    • The Cricket Field
    • Youth and Schools
    • Other
  • Miscellany
    • Evolution of stumps, bat and bowling
    • Kit and Equipment
    • Laws
    • Cricket outside England

Early History of Cricket – E.D.R. Edgar

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