Cricket Cricket started in England in the 16th century. The first official Laws of Cricket were codified in 1744, and the sport grew rapidly through the late 1700s and early 1800s, when most of the modern English domestic clubs were founded. Cricket was subsequently spread to England's colonies, and rules that came along in the early 1900s promised that only countries in the British Empire could belong to cricket as an international sport. The legacy of this still lingers on the sport[...]