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The Story of Cricket
     – Ramachandra Guha
 

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Stick-and-ball game of cricket
For hundreds of years, many stick-and-ball games were played in England. It is from these that cricket developed. By the seventeenth century, cricket became a known game. Cricket bats were originally curved like hockey sticks to hit the ball which was bowled underarm. The meaning of the word ‘bat’ is stick or club.
 
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