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Cricket began as a game for peasants, played
alongside cudgelling bouts and cockfights on village greens during the
18th century in the cradle counties of the sport: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
and Hampshire. But it had within it the potential for a high degree of
individual skill and soon attracted the interest of the nobility. It proved
an ideal sport for gambling because of the many variables within the game
(spread betting is nothing new!) and aristocrats like the Duke of Richmond,
grandson of Charles II, brought respectability and prosperity to the game,
especially through the large sums wagered on matches. It was the men of
title who took cricket to London and to its future as an international
sport with skills and dedication unimagined by the early pioneers. A top-level
modern cricket match can be a lazy afternoon in the sun punctuated by
the sound of leather on willow, an absorbing mind game more akin to chess,
or a full-blooded duel between gladiators armed with bat and ball.
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