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No one is really sure when cricket was first playedbut it is thought that an early form existed in rural Kent and Sussex towards the end of the 16th century. The first written account of a game comes from William Goldwyn, who published a book of Latin verse as a student which contains a poem In Certamen Pilae, or ‘On a Ball Game’. In it Goldwyn describes two teams quarrelling over where to pitch the stumps.