Cricket is an individual sport.
Cricket remained a low-key local pursuit for much of the 17th century
== History ===== Origins ===Cricket is one of many games in the "club ball" sphere that basically involve hitting a ball with a hand-held implement; others include baseball (which shares many similarities with cricket, both belonging in the more specific bat-and-ball games category), golf, hockey, tennis, squash, badminton and table tennis

