AN UNBIASED VIEW OF MATCH44

Given Derrick's age, it was about 50 percent a century before when he was at school, and so it is for certain that cricket was becoming played c. 1550 by boys in Surrey.[12] The view that it was at first a kid's game is strengthened by Randle Cotgrave's 1611 English-French dictionary in which he described the noun "crosse" as "the crooked employe