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CBSE - History - History and Sport: The Story of Cricket

History and Sport: The Story of Cricket

NCERT Exercise

Describe one way in which in the nineteenth century, technology brought about a change in equipment and give one example where no change in equipment took place.

With the changing times technology brought about a change in Cricket equipment but it remained true to its origins:
→ Introduction of pads and protective gloves. These protective equipments came forth as a result of the invention of vulcanised rubber.
→ Cricketing most important tools are made from natural and pre-industrial materials. The bats, even today, are made of wood. Also, they are not factory manufactured, but made by hand.

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