Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CRICKET IN ENGLAND
- POPULAR RECREATION
- VILLAGE CRICKET WAS PLAYED FROM AS EARLY AS
THE 18TH CENTURY, ESPECIALLY IN KENT, SUSSEX AND HAMPSHIRE.
- SOCIAL CLASSES PLAYED TOGETHER
REFLECTING THE FEUDAL SYSTEM
- players could not afford to take
unpaid time of work for injury
- SOME FREELANCE PROFESSIONALS WHO PLAYED
IN A SERVANT ROLE TO THEIR CURRENT EMPLOYER
- PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- ALREADY A POPULAR RURAL GAME BY
THE MID 1700'S AND WAS SOON
ADOPTED BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- HEADMASTERS WERE HAPPY TO ACCEPT THE GAME AS
ITS STANDARDISED RULES, LACK OF VIOLENCE AND
INVOLVEMENT BY THE GENTRY REFLECTED CHANGES
IN THE GAME
- OCCUPIED BOYS AND KEPT THEM OUT OF MISCHIEF
- STAGE 1 - TRANSFERRED DIRECTLY INTO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DUE TO ITS NON VIOLENT NATURE, RULE STRUCTURE
AND UPPER CLASS INVOLVEMENT IN SOCIETY.
- STAGE 2 - CRICKET
ENCOURAGED WITH
MASSIVE INTERHOUSE
PARTICIPATION
- STAGE 3 - CONTINUED TECHNICAL
DEVELOPMENT SUCH AS PROFESSIONAL
COACHING AND INTERSCHOOL FIXTURES
- WILLIAM CLARKE XI
- TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
CONDITIONS AND HELPED CHANGE CRICKET INTO
A NATIONAL SUCCESS
- 1840 - PATRONAGE
CRICKET HAD DECLINED.
- PROFESSIONAL TOURING SIDES SUCH AS WILLIAM
CLARKE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1847 OR THE
BREAKAWAY UNITED XI WHO COMPLAINED THAT
THEY WERE NOT PAID ENOUGH.
- THESE SIDES TOURED ENGLAND FOR MANY
SEASONS AND ATTRACTED HUGE CROWDS.
- CLASS DIVISIONS
- HAD DIFFERENT NAMES
- THE RATIONALISED FORM
OF THE GAME HAD A STRICT
CLASS DIVIDE
- NAMES APPEARED DIFFERENTLY
IN THE PROGRAMME
- DIFFERENT
EATING
ARRANGEMENTS
- ENTERED THE FIELD AT
A DIFFERENT DOOR
- THE CAPTAIN AND OPENING BATSMAN
WERE ALWAYS AMATEUR
- W.G GRACE
- WAS A POWERFUL ALL-ROUND ATHLETE,
A DOMINANT PERSONALITY AND THE
MOST FAMOUS CRICKETER AND THE
MOST FAMOUS CRICKETER OF HIS TIME
- DOCTOR BY PROFESSION
AND AMATEUR BY
STATUS
- PAID £50 PER GAME
- EARNED £120,000 EITHER DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY THROUGH CRICKET
- PARTICIPATION
TODAY
- SUMMER GAME IN MANY STATE SCHOOLS
- 8,000 CRICKET CLUBS IN ENGLAND
- INDEPENDANT SCHOOLS OFFER MORE
OPPORTUNITIES THAN STATE SCHOOLS
- 27% INCREASE IN OCTOBER 2008 IN 12 MONTHS
- FACTORS THAT HAVE HELPED DEVELOP CRICKET
- DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME TARGETED
AT CLUBS RATHER THAN
SCHOOLS
- ADAPTED GAMES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
- 'CLUB MARK' SCHEME - CLUBS GAIN A
KITEMARK STANDARD AND
ACCREDITATION AS HEALTHY SAFE
PLACES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- CHANCE TO SHINE
- TECHNOLOGY FOR BATS, BOWLING
MACHINES, PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
- TWENTY 20 ONE DAY MATCHES
- MEDIA HYPE LINKED WITH
TEST MATCHES
- ENGLANDS
WOMEN
VICOTORY IN
THE CRICKET
WORLD CUP IN
2009