Yesterday I was shocked to see in the online version of Gazette Van Antwerp that Australian academic Paul Campbell claims that Cricket was not invented in England but was actually invented in Belgium. The tea-cups will be rattling in their saucers in the hallowed halls of Lords Cricket Ground after this bombshell! It's actually an intresting article, and after a bit of researching I found it first appeared in the Sunday telegraph on 1/03/09. The evidence for the claim comes from a poem written in 1533 which contains the line:
"O lorde of Ipocrites/Nowe shut vpp your wickettes/And clape to your clickettes!/A! Farewell, kings of crekettes!,''
Well just look at it, does that make any sense at all?
The Australian was helped by German academic Dr Heiner Gillmeister of Bonn University who believes that the word Cricket comes from the Flemish phrase " met de krik ketsen" which I've had translated as "the jack ricochet".
I personally believe there is a far simpler explanation for this; it was just a bunch of English blokes having a quick knock around after popping over the Channel for some cheap beer!
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