Question

How can you connect the game of cricket with the rural past ?

Answer 1

Hint: Cricket had no fixed time limit in the past. The game used to continue on for as long as it took to bowl outside twice. Cricket was initially played on the country's unfenced land that was public possession.

Complete Answer:
- The pace of village life in England was inactive and crickets were made before the Industrial Revolution. In the post-industrial period, time came to be measured with money. Modern factories paid people by the hour or the day or the week. As a result, sports like football and hockey were codified post industrial revolution and were made time bound in order to suit the patterns of city life.
- Cricket's ambiguity about the size of cricket ground is also an outcome of its village origins. As the size of the commons, unfenced land differed from one village to another, so there were no designated boundaries.
- When the ball went into the crowd, the crowd emptied the path for the fieldmen to fetch it. Even after boundaries were written into the laws of cricket, their distance from the wicket was not restricted.
- So far games tools are concerned, the most crucial of them are made of natural, pre-industrial materials. The bat and stumps are made of wood. The ball is made of leather and cork. Even today both bat and ball are handmade, not industrially produced.

Note: Cricket has been manipulated by technical changes. The invention of vulcanised rubber directed to the introduction of pads and protective gloves. Helmets are also made of metal and artificial lightweight materials. The origin of cricket is south-east England. William Gilbert Grace is the father of cricket.