Simon Hughes discovers the true origins of cricket, established 400 years ago this week, with a tragic accident on the field at Horsted Keynes CC in Sussex, an incident explored in revealing new detail by historian and archivist Bob Willard Watts. For a commemorative book on this story visit www.HKCC-1624.co.uk

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