THE BEST SIDE OF CRICKET

Specified Derrick's age, it had been about fifty percent a century before when he was at college, and so it is definite that cricket was getting played c. 1550 by boys in Surrey.[twelve] The see that it was originally a kid's match is strengthened by Randle Cotgrave's 1611 English-French dictionary in which he described the noun "crosse" as "the