The references below are sometimes connected with cricket although there is no certainty about any of them.
| 673 | Life of Cuthbert by The Venerable Bede includes an illustration of a youth playing with a curved stick |
| c1180 | Joseph of Exeter, writing in Latin, is quoted in translation as saying; ‘The youths at cricks did play / Throughout the merry day. |
| c1250 | A youth holding some kind of sports stick in the Six Ages of Man Window, Canterbury Cathedral |
| c1250 | A bat-and-ball game illustrated in a 13th-century manuscript of the Galician Cantigas de Santa Maria. |
| 1300 | ‘creag’ – an unknown pastime referred to in Latin, in the Wardrobe Accounts of Edward I. |
| c1340 | Pictorial reference on the border of an illuminated manuscript of the Romance of Alexander. |
| c1350 | Shepherds in a mural at Cocking Church, Sussex, maybe holding something like a cricket bat |
| c1350 | A bat and ball game on a stained-glass window in Gloucester Cathedral. |
| 1477 | ‘Handyn and Handoute’ among pastimes listed in a statute of Edward IV. |
| 1478 | ‘criquet’ mentioned in a French manuscript, referring to a place in the district of St Omer, north-east France. |
| 1562 | ‘Clyckett’ mentioned as an unlawful game played in Malden, Essex. |
| 1598 | Sgrillare defined as ‘to make a noise as a cricket, to play cricket-a-wicket and be merry’ in Florio’s Italian-English Dictionary. |
See also the page of Very early images.