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 French invented cricket 

That's very interesting but, as the Independent article that you cite says: ""From the tantalising reference in the French national archives, it is unclear precisely what game was being played at Liettres in October 1478."" It certainly could have been cricket, but equally it might have been some other game entirely. conceivably an ancestor of croquet. So I think you need to put in some more qualifiers, such as ""it is possible that"" or ""it has been claimed that"". JH (talk page) "