Wednesday, March 16, 2011

HISTORY OF CRICKET


The cricket, sports excellence for the Anglo-Saxon was born between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in South of England. It 's a typical child of the emerging middle class, made this demonstrated by the holding of the first match between teams formed by the guilds, the equivalent of Dante's corporations.

In Italy the first records date from the late eighteenth century. In fact, in 1793 was a meeting in Naples played between two teams of crews Lord Nelson's fleet. The host of that game was a colonel the Bourbon, on behalf Maceroni, another track that has no historical if not left as the first patron of the Italian cricket.

A century later, in 1893, was founded Genoa Cricket & Football Club composed initially of just that alternated between English cricket in the season winter football. As evidence of this, 8 / 11 of the team that won in 1898 the first football league was formed by Englishmen among which the legendary James Richardson Spensley, a doctor capable of alternating with equal skill among the poles or the middle of the attack This was followed by Milan and Genoa Turin by the International, which later became Juventus, in which all clubs within 10 years of cricket had to make way for the emerging football.

Previous and Italy was not unlike the path of the cricket overseas where the past is playing a dominant before the war secession to marginal activity towards the end of the century, supplanted by its synthetic derivative and current America's leading sports: baseball.

Albeit on a smaller scale, the cricket has started to go global after the Second World War II to coincide with the Granting of Independence to Dominions. Currently, the geography of the Full Members of the International Cricket Council comprises ten countries where you play Test cricket, the form for par excellence of the game with matches lasting five days. Asia is the dominant with the four countries of the sub - continent (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), followed by Africa (South Africa and Zimbabwe) and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) with two, and finally Europe (England) and America (Indian West) with one.

Over the past twenty years under the pressure of two Australian television magnate, first terrestrial network owner Kerry Packer and Channel 9 after Rupert Murdoch owner of Sky Satelitte giant, cricket finding has revolutionized the game over to (series of 6 throws) limited, its international dimension. Of this new cricket is also part of Italy, currently placed around the twentieth position worldwide.

The cricket we have gradually taken place in the sixties. A Rome the creation of a field in the Villa Doria Pamphili, in Milan with the birth of Milan Cricket Club, culminating in a national team captain English, Ted Dexter. However, it is only with the birth of the Association Italian Cricket November 26, 1980 that the game began to be practiced on a regular and ongoing basis.

1 comments:

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