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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
Women’s Cricket
Cricket outside England
Clubs
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Star and Garter
Marylebone Cricket Club
The London Cricket Club
White Conduit Club
Players
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Players – prior to 1772
Players – 1772 – 1786
Players – 1787 – 1825
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
Playing the game
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Evolution of bowling, bat and stumps
The Laws of Cricket
Bats and other equipment
Recreation of an Eighteenth Century Game
Matches
Gallery
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Very early images
The Cricket Field
Youth and Schools
Portraits
Library
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Early 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 – Mary Russell Mitford
Poems and songs
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In Certamen Pilae (About a ball-game)
The Echoing Green by William Blake
Lord Byron – Childish Recollections (excerpt)
William Wordsworth – Composed In the Valley near Dover
The Rev Mr Cotton of Winchester – Cricket
James Love – Cricket, An Heroic Poem
John Duncombe – Surry Triumphant or The Kentish Men’s Defeat
The Kentish Cricketers
Modern histories
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Cricket history books
Early History of Cricket – E.D.R. Edgar
Ladybird Story of Cricket
History Of Cricket by E.W. Swanton
Early Cricket
Cricket before 1800
Main Menu
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
Women’s Cricket
Cricket outside England
Clubs
Menu Toggle
Star and Garter
Marylebone Cricket Club
The London Cricket Club
White Conduit Club
Players
Menu Toggle
Players – prior to 1772
Players – 1772 – 1786
Players – 1787 – 1825
Grounds
Menu Toggle
White Conduit Fields Ground
The Artillery Ground
Broadhalfpenny Down
Windmill Down Cricket Ground
Dorset Square- the first Lord’s Ground
Playing the game
Menu Toggle
Evolution of bowling, bat and stumps
The Laws of Cricket
Bats and other equipment
Recreation of an Eighteenth Century Game
Matches
Gallery
Menu Toggle
Very early images
The Cricket Field
Youth and Schools
Portraits
Library
Menu Toggle
Early writings
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 – Mary Russell Mitford
Poems and songs
Menu Toggle
In Certamen Pilae (About a ball-game)
The Echoing Green by William Blake
Lord Byron – Childish Recollections (excerpt)
William Wordsworth – Composed In the Valley near Dover
The Rev Mr Cotton of Winchester – Cricket
James Love – Cricket, An Heroic Poem
John Duncombe – Surry Triumphant or The Kentish Men’s Defeat
The Kentish Cricketers
Modern histories
Menu Toggle
Cricket history books
Early History of Cricket – E.D.R. Edgar
Ladybird Story of Cricket
History Of Cricket by E.W. Swanton
Recreation of an Eighteenth Century Game
