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How has cricket become a game with characteristics of both the past and the present?

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Cricket’s connection with a rural past can be seen in the length of a Test match. Originally, cricket matches had no time limit. The game went on for as long as it took to bowl out a side twice. The rhythms of village life were slower and cricket’s rules were made before the Industrial Revolution. 

In the same way, cricket’s vagueness about the size of a cricket ground is a result of its village origins. Cricket was originally played on country commons, unfenced land that was public property. The size of the ‘commons’ varied from one village to another, so there were no designated boundaries or boundary hits. ….Continue next answer



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