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Why eleven?

Burgey

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Right, I may as well answer properly now.

I've done a bit of a research into this due to a couple of things I've done.

The earliest report on a game of cricket (1697) mentioned that the match was played with 11 players on each side. So the actual reason is lost because there are no reports about games before that.

Found it on Wiki:



1697 to 1725 English cricket seasons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So in summary, to the best of my research, no one knows.
Yeah I was at that game.
 

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