Cricket....has roots in the Irish Game "Catty"

[Aladdin]

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So.. that's interesting

What say you, all you Urban cricketers?

 

[Santino]

I thought it was French.

 

[maomao]

This is like the Chinese claiming to have invented football because they found an old painting of a bloke kicking a ball. Bat and ball games exist independently in many cultures.

 

[planetgeli]

So when the GAA effectively banned it between 1901 and 1970 as a 'foreign' game...

 

[Artaxerxes]

This is like the Chinese claiming to have invented football because they found an old painting of a bloke kicking a ball. Bat and ball games exist independently in many cultures.

Gilgamesh invented hurling!

Gilgamesh and hurling

This is a blog about Old European Culture.

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[surreybrowncap]

 

[Spymaster]

Humans have probably been playing games that involve hitting stuff with sticks for thousands of years.

Interesting that some of the terminology is so similar though.

 

[krtek a houby]

Gilgamesh invented hurling!

Gilgamesh and hurling

This is a blog about Old European Culture.

oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com

The Choctaw, surely

 

[bcuster]

Pakistani-Canadian in origin

 

[Humberto]

Aztecs had ballgames.

 

[Pickman's model]

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So.. that's interesting

What say you, all you Urban cricketers?

It's interesting to note the popularity of cricket in Ireland before the founding of the gaa

 

[Aladdin]

Aztecs had ballgames.

Ball and stick?

 

[maomao]

Ball and stick?

There were versions of the meso-American ballgame with bats and racquets.

 

[surreybrowncap]