All about Cricket [History, Rules, ...]

All about Cricket [History, Rules, ...]

O cricket is a sport that is not very well known to the outside world as it is quite extensive in 3 countries: England, India and Pakistan.

Just to get an idea, only one cricket player is among the top 100 paid athletes in the world, but he gets an exorbitant $ 31 million a year (27 being in sponsorship) making him the highest paid athlete in the world. 23 World in 2015.

History of cricket

This sport stems from an old sport called stoolball, and in the seventeenth century, the English nobility began to embrace more cricket as a real sport and it changed into what it is today.

Cricket was once an Olympic sport, but he ended up leaving the program because he did not have all the rules and the number of practitioners in the world was not big enough. They are currently trying to include it again, mainly as a display sport (no medals), but it is still not clear when they will get it.

Cricket Match

The game of cricket is a bit complex and very different from any other sport, having very specific rules and the way you play, although some claim that it is similar to baseball (maybe only in some aspects).