Early Cricket; Experts agree that cricket may have been invented during the Saxon or Norman era by children living in the thick forests and settlements of Wild in southeast England. The first reference to cricket, which is played as an adult sport, dates back to 1611, and in the same year the dictionary defined cricket as a boy's game. There is also the idea that cricket was derived from the bowl by the batter's intervention in trying to prevent the ball from reaching the goal by hitting. The village cricket was developed by the mid-17th century, and the village cricket "local expert" was hired as the first expert, forming the first English "county team" in the second half of the century. rice field. The first known game in which teams use county names will be played in 1709. In the first half of the 18th century, cricket established itself as a major sport in London and the southeastern counties of England. Its spread was limited by travel restrictions, but slowly gained popularity in other parts of England, and women's cricket dates back to 1745, when the first known match was played in Sally. The first rules for cricket were created in 1744 and changed in 1774 when innovations such as LBW, third stump, medium stump, and maximum butt width were added. The code was created by the Star and Garter Club, whose members eventually founded the Rose Cricket Club in 1787. The MCC quickly became the governor of the law and has been amending it ever since. Rolling the ball along the ground was superseded sometime after 1760 when bowlers began to pitch the ball and in response to that innovation the straight bat replaced the old “HOCKEYSTICK” style of bat. The HAMBLETON Club in Hampshire was the focal point of the game for about thirty years until the formation of MCC and the opening of Lord's Cricket Ground in 1787. Cricket was introduced to North America via the English colonies as early as the 17th century, and in the 18th century it arrived in other parts of the globe. It was introduced to the West Indies by colonists and to India by British East India Company mariners. It arrived in Australia almost as soon as Colonisation began in 1788 and the sport reached New Zealand and South Africa in the early years of the 19th century. 19th century; The game overcame the investment shortages of the early 19th century due to the Napoleonic Wars and began to recover in 1815. Sussex was the first British county club founded in 1839, and the rest continued in the late 19th century. Founded in 1846, Traveling All England Eleven was a for-profit company that did a lot to spread the game to areas where it had never seen first-class cricket.