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[AdAstra]

Cricket 'was invented in Belgium'

New academic research claims cricket is not English, but was imported by immigrants from northern Belgium.


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Earlier studies of his suggest that whilst the spiritual home of golf might be Scotland - records indicate the Belgians were also playing a recognisable form of that sport before people in Britain.




This just helps to prove that Belgium is the originator - or perfector - of everything good and fun (cricket, golf, fries, chocolate, beer,... )

You, for one, welcome your new Belgian overlords!

 

[Markas]

Belgium...home of chocolates and cricket. Now that is a must visit destination.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

So Krikkit was invented in Bel***m?! I can only imagine what Douglas Adams would've made of that...

Explains a lot, too.

 

[Mallory]

Bah, cricket and golf? You can keep them.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Wasn't the first ever cricket international between the USA and Canada way back in the 19th Century sometime?

 

[jamestyler]

Bah, cricket and golf? You can keep them.

Cricket... I hate. But Golf? Whenever I play golf it's one of the few times where I don't feel like a monkey in an idiot suit. Very stern, serious game. Even if I can't get the ball past the windmill and that damn clown always spits it back out.

 

[Hermiod]

Strictly speaking, the MCC, an English private members' club, codified the laws of Cricket in 1788. That is when the modern game known as Cricket began.

 

[AdAstra]

Tut tut, no arguing!

Just bow down, and everything will be all right.