Cricket History and IPL Introduction

Saim Khan
2 min readAug 22, 2020

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Cricket (or wooden ball, paddle ball) is a team sport in which two teams of eleven players compete. Its modern form originated in England and prevailed in the Commonwealth countries, such as Britain, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Asia, Southern Africa, West Indies and other places.

History

According to data from 1598, the Royal Grammar School (Guildford) already had students participating in cricket. This is usually considered the first mention of cricket in English. The word “cricket” seems to have many sources, probably derived from the early term cricket stick: Old French “criquet” (meaning a kind of short stick), or Flemish “krick (e)” (meaning stick, stick), or Old English “cricc” or “cryce” (meaning battle, rod). In addition, the French “criquet” seems to be a word for the church for people knelt in prayer in the long low stool in the Flemish “krickstoel” from, thus a symbol of the early use of cricket only two upright goal post and a long, The short three-post gate.

Cricket game time length varies, the International Cricket Tournament game be six hours a day or more, and up to five days; there are many lunch and drink tea, rest periods; and a wealth of cricket terminology , are the reason why the cricket layman is very troubled. But for The Sports Book fans, sports and the fierce competition between top cricket national teams provide them with passionate entertainment, and even occasional diplomatic conflicts, such as the notorious fast pitching between England and Australia series.

2020 was originally a product that was conducive to the promotion of professionalism. What’s interesting is that for a traditional cricket country like India, the officials were not optimistic about this set of rules at first, but now India has become the top hall of 2020. Cricket stars from all over the world will come. IPL is a gold rush, but after all, it is still a league held on Indian Territory. In order to protect local players, each team can only raise 8 “foreign generals”, and no more than 4 players can play in the same game. This is similar to Chinese professional baseball and Japanese professional baseball. It’s not difficult to understand that the rules for restrictions on foreigners are similar.

Today’s IPL is to “cricket”, as MLB is to “baseball”. The success of IPL has also given birth to the professionalization of many sports in India, including the traditional sports Kabaddi and the most international football ( Association football), India’s other national football-Field hockey , Wrestling which you can understand after watching “My Champion Daughter” or reading The Sports Book, now has a luxurious professional league.

The emerging Indian professional sports has also invested a huge amount of money to attract talents from other countries to “travel in India”, including many European and American professionals, such as the Premier Badminton League in India, and Taiwanese post-ball Dai Ziying has also participated in several Season. Although the term “India Super” can no longer be used exclusively for cricket, IPL is still India’s most stable league.

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