text: when was cricket game first originated?   a basic form of the sport can be traced back to the 13th century, but it may have existed even earlier than that. the game seems to have originated among shepherds and farm workers in the weald between kent and sussex. written evidence exists of a sport known as creag being played by prince edward, the son of edward i (longshanks), at newenden, kent in 1300.  in 1598, a court case referred to a sport called creckett being played at the royal grammar school, guildford around 1550. the oxford english dictionary gives this as the first recorded instance of cricket in the english language.