Question

How is the varying size of a cricket field a reflection of its rural past explain

Answer 1

Cricket is play on the countries common which is unfenced land and it is public property the size of the land varies from one place to another

Answer 2

Cricket maintains the balance between the past and the present in the following manner:

a. Cricket as a game has evolved enough to be recognizable as a distinct game, with test matches, written laws.

b. Cricket as a game changed and matured during the early phase of the Industrial Revolution but still remain connected with rural past, which can be seen from the length of test matches.

c. Likewise, crickets vagueness about the size of a cricket ground is a result of its village origins

d.Even after boundaries were written into the laws of cricket, their distance from the wicket was not specified.

e. Earlier cricket was played in the commons, with no specific boundary area, moreover the size of commons also varied from village to village, which contributed to the vagueness .

f. ​Even after boundaries were written into the laws of cricket, their distance from the wicket was not specified.

g .As per the law, the umpire agrred with both captains with reagrd to boundaries of the area.