cricket matches

Early cricket was at some time or another described as "a club striking a ball (like) the ancient games of club-ball, stool-ball, trap-ball, stob-ball".^[14] Cricket can definitely be traced back to Tudor times in early 16th-century England.

Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1301^[15] and there has been speculation, but no evidence, that this was a form of cricket.