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Encyclopedia ID 1151

Yard cricket

Also known as Cricket (street · yard)

Yard cricket: photograph by Prescott Pym on Flickr
Photo: Prescott Pym on Flickr, CC BY 2.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Improvised backyard cricket with a homemade bat and ball.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Age of Contact and Craft (about 1500 to 1800), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of The Americas: Caribbean.

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