A REVIEW OF MATCH44 ID

Given Derrick's age, it was about half a century earlier when he was in school, and so it is for certain that cricket was currently being performed c. 1550 by boys in Surrey.[twelve] The view that it was originally a kid's game is reinforced by Randle Cotgrave's 1611 English-French dictionary where he outlined the noun "crosse" as "the crooked st