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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;Several sources, including the Smithsonian, magazine, report that "The rules of the game on this side of the Atlantic were formalized in 1754, when Benjamin Franklin brought back from England a copy of the [ten year old - LMc] 1744 Laws, cricket's official rule book." Simon Worrall, "Cricket, Anyone?" &lt;u&gt;Smithsonian Magazine&lt;/u&gt;, October 2006. The excerpt can be found in the seventh paragraph of the article [as accessed 10/19/2008] at: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2006/october/cricket.php"&gt;http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2006/october/cricket.php&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Lester adds this: "Benjamin Franklin was sufficiently interested in the game [cricket] to bring back with him from England a copy of the laws of cricket, for it was this very copy which was presented to the Young America Club . . .on June 4, 1867." Lester, &lt;u&gt;A Century of Philadelphia Cricket&lt;/u&gt; (U Penn, 1951), page 5. &lt;b&gt;Caveat:&lt;/b&gt; we have not located a contemporary account of the Franklin story.&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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