Specified Derrick's age, it was about fifty percent a century previously when he was in school, and so it is certain that cricket was being performed c. 1550 by boys in Surrey.[twelve] The perspective that it absolutely was originally a children's recreation is reinforced by Randle Cotgrave's 1611 English-French dictionary https://cricket86531.dailyhitblog.com/40990868/what-does-match44-id-mean