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Cricket is the English national summer game - although the English cricket team of the 1990s is an international joke. The modern day game seems to have evolved around the 16th century from earlier bat and ball games dating from the 13th century and assumed its present form, through evolution, in the 18th century. A picture in a manuscript from 1344 depicts a monk bowling a ball to another monk who is about to strike it with a staff or crutch known as a cric. The earliest mention of the word 'cricket' occurs in 1593 when John Derrick telling how attending the free school in Guildford 'he and his fellowes did run and play there at crickett and other plaies'.
Cricket is a team game played by two teams of 11 players each on a pitch 22 yards long with a wicket at each end to be defended by the batsman against a ball delivered by one of the opposing side, while the other members of this side endeavour to catch the ball when struck or missed by the batsman.
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