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Re: Cricket – the first modern game
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Nov 23, 2010, 4:40:41 AM11/23/10
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On Nov 23, 8:53 am, RH <anywhere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cricket – the first modern game
>
> Cricket was the first team game to be a great spectator sport,
> indeed, one might argue that it was the first great spectator game of
> any sort as opposed to a sport such as horse-racing, running,
> boxing or the more disreputable pursuits of cock and dog fighting
> and bear baiting.
>
> Cricket might also reasonably claim to have inaugurated the idea
> of international sport with the first cricket tour to North
> America in 1859.
>
> Read more at http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/cricket-the-first-mode...
> Cricket – the first modern game
>
> Cricket was the first team game to be a great spectator sport,
> indeed, one might argue that it was the first great spectator game of
> any sort as opposed to a sport such as horse-racing, running,
> boxing or the more disreputable pursuits of cock and dog fighting
> and bear baiting.
>
> Cricket might also reasonably claim to have inaugurated the idea
> of international sport with the first cricket tour to North
> America in 1859.
>
> Read more at http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/cricket-the-first-mode...
Perhaps cricket sort of followed on from bear-baiting.
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