Sport is a competition according to certain rules, usually a specific type of physical or intellectual activity carried out for the purpose of competition, as well as improving health, moral and material satisfaction, striving for improvement and fame, improving skills. One of the sports is cricket.
THE HISTORY OF THIS GAME IS SEVERAL CENTURIES OLD. THE FIRST DOCUMENTARY MENTION OF THE PROTOTYPE OF CRICKET DATES BACK TO THE EARLY XVI CENTURY - AT THIS TIME THERE WERE REPORTS OF A GAME IN WHICH PARTICIPANTS HIT THE BALL WITH CURVED BATS, RESEMBLING STICKS. IN THE 18 TH CENTURY, CRICKET BECAME A NATIONAL ENGLISH SPORT. THE PERIOD FROM THE EARLY 1890 S TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR IS OFTEN CALLED THE GOLDEN AGE OF CRICKET. THE INTERNATIONAL CRICKET COUNCIL WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1909. INITIALLY, IT CONSISTED OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THREE STATES - BRITAIN, SOUTH AFRICA AND AUSTRALIA. INITIALLY, THE COUNCIL WAS CALLED THE IMPERIAL CRICKET CONFERENCE AND ACCEPTED ONLY THOSE STATES WHOSE TEAMS PLAYED TEST CRICKET. CURRENTLY, THE INTERNATIONAL CRICKET COUNCIL INCLUDES 104 COUNTRIES.
NO MATTER HOW STRANGE IT MAY SOUND, BUT CRICKET IN UKRAINE HAS BEEN TRYING TO DEVELOP SINCE 1999, AND EVERY SUMMER ONE OF THE LARGEST CIS TOURNAMENTS KYIV CRICKET LEAGUE IS REGULARLY HELD IN KYIV. IT IS MAINLY PLAYED BY TEAMS OF DIPLOMATS FROM THE COUNTRIES OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH, BUT THE TOURNAMENT HAS ITS OWN LIMIT ON FOREIGN PLAYERS, SO EACH TEAM MUST HAVE AT LEAST 2 UKRAINIANS. WE ALSO HAVE A COMPLETELY UKRAINIAN TEAM IN KAGARLYK, KYIV REGION. CRICKET IN UKRAINE