This sport derives from an old sport called stoolball and in the 17th century the English nobility began to adopt more cricket as a real sport and it is mutating into what it is today.
Cricket is one of the popular sports in England, ranking fourth after football, rugby and tennis. Cricket has existed and played in England since the 17th century and has slowly gained prominence in the different classes of the country. It is believed that the game originated in southeastern counties, where it was known by the name of cricket. At first it was probably nothing more than fun for children: one theory suggests that the origins of this game are linked to the way in which the English shepherds defended their flock, namely by throwing stones at the thieves. Since the sixteenth century, with the rapidly growing British Empire, many expatriates took the game with them to distant places such as Australia, Africa, the Caribbean and India. Cricket was becoming international: a first-class match never played in India came in 1864 between Madras and Calcutta.
Cricket was once an Olympic sport, but it ended up leaving the program because it didn’t have all the rules well defined and the number of professionals in the world wasn’t big enough. They are currently looking to include it again, mainly as a show sport (without medals) but it is still unclear when they will do so.
The international body that governs the discipline is the International Cricket Council (ICC), founded on June 15, 1909 by England, Australia and South Africa, located in London since its birth but which moved to Dubai in August 2005 in the United Arab Emirates.