apart from cricket, association football is the other sport that uses a bat.
apart from cricket, association football is the other sport that uses a bat.
apart from cricket which other sport uses a bat?
association football
all acknowledged subject experts and authorities agree that there is no evidence of cricket having evolved from another bat-and-ball sport and, equally, no evidence that any other bat-and-ball sport evolved from cricket. the authorities include writers harry altham, john arlott, derek birley, arthur haygarth, david underdown, roy webber and peter wynne-thomas. their consensus view is that the only thing that can definitely be said about the origin of cricket is that its earliest record is in a late 16th-century court case in surrey which proves it was played by children in southeast england in the middle of that century. there have been alternative theories of origin but these have been dismissed or ignored by authorities. for example, the writer andrew lang claimed in 1912 that cricket evolved from a bat-and-ball game which may have been played in dál riata as early as the 6th century and this claim has been dismissed, by anthony bateman among others, in terms of "lang's idiosyncratic belief in the celtic origin of cricket". it is true that cricket is one of many bat-and-ball sports existing worldwide which have no known origin. others are the definitely celtic sports of hurling and shinty. golf and hockey are other british ball games involving a club or stick while croquet was apparently imported from france and globally there are games such as sweden's brännboll, italy's , india's gilli-danda, finland's pesäpallo and samoa's kilikiti. however, it is generally believed that cricket essentially belongs to the same family of bat-and-ball games as stoolball, rounders and baseball but whether it evolved from any of these, or "vice versa", cannot be determined. there is a 1523 reference to stoolball at a designated field in oxfordshire; this may then have been a generic term for any game in which a ball is somehow hit with a bat or stick. 18th century references to stoolball in conjunction with cricket clearly indicate that it was a separate activity.
history of cricket to 1725
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quidditch has its roots in the fictional "harry potter" sport of the same name. to denote the difference, the fictional sport uses the capitalised "quidditch" whereas the sport played as per the iqa rules uses the uncapitalised "quidditch". in april 2017 oxford dictionaries recognised "quidditch" as a word.









































the sport was created in 2005 at middlebury college in middlebury, vermont, by xander manshel and alex benepe, who later became the first commissioner of quidditch. it has grown into its own separate and distinct sport after ten publications of rulebooks.
quidditch (sport)