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    Posted: 27 April 2006 at 1:25pm

I read a book and it had the top 5 unusual cricket matches:

  • 1735 - Two teams in Bromley played a game of cricket on horseback
  • 1976 - A team of onw-legged Greenwich pensioners beat a team of one-armed Greenwich Pensioners by 103 runs
  • 1823 - The crews of the ships Hecla and Fury played a game at Igooli in Antarctica
  • 1838 - In Manchester, eleven 'first choice cricketrs beat eleven men and a catapult
  • 1931 - At Knockholt a team of players all called Smithers beat a team who were all named Streatfield
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When was cricket first invented and by who?
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Like all great sports it was invented by the English !!!
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well sledger i read this article and as every other inventions it also has controversies that who is the inventor

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/22/1037697879383.html
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Don't ever take the word of a Frenchman Jumbo !! The only thing they invented was smelly breath!!!
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 its true sledger because i searched for the inventor of cricket and came across the foll article and u might be interested as it shows that the french r trying to steal the glory of cricket from the english

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/funny_old_game/2485439.stm
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well if france invented cricket why don't they go to australia and win the ashes? this is grade A bull and we all know it its the opposite grade of french beef which I also reject
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boycott French kissing too pal...that'll teach em
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Wasn't the forst ever first class match played in the USA between North Carolina and someone else...????
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must have been about 5 overs per innings so the yanks didn't get bored
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commercial breaks between every delivery
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Originally posted by MiNiWaRnEy

Wasn't the forst ever first class match played in the USA between North Carolina and someone else...????

 

I also believe that the 1st ever international match was between the USA and Canada....in around 1844. That would have to be a great trivia night question!

Apparently cricket was very popular in America up until the time of the Civil War (1861-1865).  Unfortunately some idiot than thought up baseball.....



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Hey now if it weren't for baseball we'd have to endure yankiedoodles at cricket matches with there big foam fingers and constant "woooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo's!" 
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I guess if One day cricket and Twenty/20 cricket was thought of earlier, the Yanks wouldn't have had a need to discover Baseball....
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mind you they could slog if they got in hey they have skinnier bats
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My blood chills at the thought of Americans taking up cricket. Just imagine how many adverts they can fit into a 5 day test match!!

Good to see I'm not the only anti-french on the forum team!!

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mate if you want to see ad breaks come to aus every single over theres an ad break
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The only good thing to come out of France is the Channel Tunnel.
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damn,anyone but the americans i'd rather see kenya invent it instead did the english invent soccer and tennis as well
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they definitely invented FOOTBALL not sure about tennis
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Tennis was invented in the Middle-east an delevoped into lawn tennis in England. And also what the f does this have to do with the topic
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Football? What's that? Soccer, Rugby, Aussie Rules, Gridiron. Hackey-Sack...?
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only countries like America,Australia and New Zealand call Football soccer and can anyone tell me how Rugby and American Rules is called football theres about no kicking involved
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America has both Soccer and Football. Their football is way different that soccer.
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