1. Historical development of
“CRICKET”
This presentation is about historical development of
CRICKET as a game in England.

2. Topics which will be covered….
▪ The Beginning of “CRICKET”.
▪ Relation with England.
▪ Reasons for its LAWS.
▪ Amateurs and professionals.
▪ Why Cricket is called a Gentlemen’s game?????
▪ Gentlemen’s preference.
▪ Benefit of doubt.

3. The Beginning of “CRICKET”.
▪ Cricket began In ENGLAND.
▪ About 500 Years ago.
▪ This game was made for Amateurs.
▪ Poor people used this as an seasonal employment as this was played
after industrial revolution
▪ This game in the modern period is the longest in time period.
▪ Girls used to be away from this game.

4. Reasons for its “LAWS”
The following slide will concentrate on the development of the
“LAWS” of CRICKET.

5. Laws of CRICKET

6. ▪ The laws of CRICKET were always in favor of the batsman.
▪ The reason for this is that Gentlemen use to play as a batsman. And
▪ These were made so that the rich who played as batsman win.
▪ Also, the cricket was started at the rural England where the people
had a lot of time for these activities. And that’s how test cricket came
to existence.

7. Why Cricket is called a
Gentlemen’s game?????
IT is called a Gentlemen’s game because it was mainly played by
rich for pleasure and they were not benefited from the Amt. and
invested in this game for revenging against the poor.

8. All through out Cricket was considered as a
discrimination of poor and rich it has been developed
in a way that the batsman has always the advantage of
the doubt.
The reason is quite clear and silly but It has an huge
impact on the modern game.
Gentlemen’s preference

9. Its Logo.
This is the official
cricket logo all over the
world in 1935.
Also it was the
traditional way of
representing cricket.

10. England’s logo
This is an animated
cricketing logo used in
England In 1988.