A SOCIAL CLASS STORY

Unlike many English sports like rugby, cricket is hardly appreciated outside British lands. Until the sixteenth century, this discipline was practiced by the popular and despised classes of the rich. From the middle of the 17th century, the aristocracy was interested in maintaining relations with the rest of the population and increasing its prestige. The lords used as gamekeepers or grooms people who were first and foremost excellent cricketers and formed their team.
Around 1820, sport had two versions: a cricket for the upper middle classes who practiced it in its country estates or in clubs from which the representatives of the popular class were excluded; and a cricket for the petty bourgeoisie. The latter introduced the professionalism that lasted until 1870.

The "cricket test", a series of national matches between England and the countries of the British Empire, was organized. Cricket became important and became the national sport of the summer. As the club that controlled the game was the very aristocratic Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC founded in London in 1788), then faced the problem of the presence of the popular class. The roles are finally divided. The drummer had to come from a high social class (this role gave him the opportunity to show his skill and personality). While the places of pitchers and pickers of bullets were entrusted to the members of the popular class.
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