Cricket – the first modern game
RH
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.
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Dog is love
one might also argue...thats its incredibly fucking boring.......
Gavin Cawley
Ahem, anyone for tlachtli?
Also archery tournaments were a spectator sport in England for hunreds
of years before cricket even existed. Just because it isn't a major
spectator event now, doesn't mean it wasn't then.
William Black
> Cricket – the first modern game
>
> 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.
>
Big crowds for archery competitions 500 years ago.
It was the poor man's sport...
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Steve Terry
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> On 23/11/10 08:53, RH wrote:
>> Cricket – the first modern game
>>
>> 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.
>>
> Archery.
> Big crowds for archery competitions 500 years ago.
>
>
Steve Terry
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