Cricket making noise on internationalscene

CHRISTINE BLOM STAFF WRITER CBB722@CABRINI .EDU

Baseball on a soccer field?

That's exactly what cricket is when it all boils down, or that's how some might refer to it if they are unfamiliar with the historical sport.

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended," George Bernard Shaw was once quoted saying in the 1990 edition of The Guiness Dictionary of Sports Quotations.

According to Wikipedia, "Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players on each side. It is a bat-and-ball game played on a roughly elliptical grass field, in the centre of which is a hard, flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a pitch."

Beginning in the early 1300s, and originally referred to as creckett, it was started in England. Cricket was played all over from Kent down to Sussex. By part in that development and rich patrons began forming their own •select 11' ," according to Wikipedia.

The most prominent venue for cricket was the Artillery Grounds in Finsbury, England.