Crekettes

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Game	Crekettes
Game Family	Hook-em-snivy Hook-em-snivy
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Description	A reference to “crekettes” in a 1533 poem has been construed as evidence that the game of cricket originated in a pastime brought to England by Flemish weavers , who arrived in the 14th Century. A German scholar thinks that this earlier game originated in the Franco-Flemish border area as early as 1150. We have no faint notion of how this earlier game might have been played.
Sources	See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/4883752/Strewth-Cricket-is-a-foreign-import-according-to-new-Australian-research.html accessed 10/10/09. Special thanks to Beth Hise, emails of September 2009, for leads on this game.
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