A Source For The Term ‘Cricket’

A number of words have been the source for the term “Cricket”. In the earliest reference to the sport in 1598 it was called creckett, than after the name may have been derived from the Middle Dutch Krick, meaning a stick or the Old English Cricc or Cryce meaning a crutch or staff. In Old French, the word criquet have been seen which mean a kind of stick. In Samuel Jhonson’s Dictionary, he derived cricket from cryce, meaning a stick. Another source is the Middle Dutch word Krickstoel, meaning a long low stool used for kneeling in church and which resembled the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket.