THE MATCH44 DIARIES

Provided Derrick's age, it was about 50 percent a century previously when he was in school, and so it is definite that cricket was getting performed c. 1550 by boys in Surrey.[twelve] The see that it had been at first a children's activity is strengthened by Randle Cotgrave's 1611 English-French dictionary where he outlined the noun "crosse" as "