Cricket World
In the approximate centre of the sphere is a rectangular pitch on which a wood target known as a wicket is sited at each end; the wickets are placed 22 yards aside. The pitch is a flat surface 10 feet (3.0 m) extensive, with very short grass that tends to be worn away as the game progresses . The Hambledon Club was founded within the 1760s and, for the next twenty years till the formation of Marylebone Cricket Club and the opening of Lord's Old Ground in 1787, Hambledon was both the game's best club and its focus. MCC quickly became the game's premier membership and the custodian of the Laws of Cricket. New Laws launched in the latter a half of the 18th century included the three stump wicket and leg earlier than wicket . A medieval "club ball" sport involving an underhand bowl in the direction of a batter. Gillmeister has suggested that not only the name but in addition the game itself may be of Flemish origin. Early manuscripts differ concerning the dimensio