DETAILS, FICTION AND CRICKET

Presented Derrick's age, it was about 50 percent a century earlier when he was at college, and so it is certain that cricket was being performed c. 1550 by boys in Surrey.[12] The watch that it had been initially a children's sport is bolstered by Randle Cotgrave's 1611 English-French dictionary where he outlined the noun "crosse" as "the crooked