TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – cricket is one of England’s national summer sports games which is also often played around the world, particularly in Australia, India, Pakistan, the West Indies and the British Isles. Cricket is a sport played with a bat and a ball. This sport must involve two opposing teams, with each team having 11 players. Each of the eleven players must score to win the match.

Cricket matches are played on an oval ground with a square area in the middle ground. pitches has a length of 20.12 meters and a width of 3.04 meters. Cricket matches are conducted in such a way that one person on the team must hit the ball until it exceeds a predetermined limit. Then it runs between two sets of three small wooden poles or so called wickets which are at each end ground.

Based on historicity, the origin of the birth of cricket is not known with certainty. Cricket comes from a game called create known after the Roman Empire. In the past, this game was played by Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, English. Moreover, there are also those who say that cricket comes from a sport called creckett which was played in 1598. It was two centuries after its first appearance that cricket came to public attention.

Quote from the book titled A History of Cricket Volume I, the first country to introduce the game of cricket was England in the middle of the 16th century. Then cricket spread all over the world to the British colonies in the middle of the 19th century. Cricket began to be widely played around the world by soldiers on military bases, especially those guarding British colonies. Naturally, cricket is growing in popularity in the former British colonies of Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka. From there, the sport of cricket is included in the international competition which was officially developed by England.

Cricket reached its golden age in the two decades before the First World War. During this golden age, cricket gave birth to the best players who are still remembered today, such as William Gilbert Grace and Sir Donald George Bradman.

According Cricket: a story of its growth and development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, in 1909 a council or governing body for international cricket was formed, called the International Cricket Council (ICC). The cricket board has over 100 member countries and 12 of them are full members playing test matches. The rules of the game of cricket itself are contained in the Code of Cricket Laws which is owned and operated by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in London. Currently, ICC is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The ICC has the task of organizing and coordinating the International Cricket Championships or the Cricket World Cup.

The birth of cricket in Indonesia

Cricket is almost the same as baseball which is already popular in Indonesian society. However, both have differences. In a baseball game, the batter has to circle the playing area, while the cricket bat only has to swing back and forth within the area. ground.

Cricket first appeared in Indonesia in the 1880s when it was played in Jakarta, specifically in the National Monument (Monas) area.monas). It was not until 1992 that cricket became increasingly popular in Indonesian society, so an association called Jakarta Cricket Association (JCA) was formed. Simultaneously with the formation of the JCA, a cricket league competition was also born in Indonesia.

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