Differences :
(i) Cricket matches originally had no time limit because of the slow rhythm of village life. All games which originated after the Industrial Revolution had a time limit.
(ii) Modern factory work meant people were paid by the hour or the day or the week. Games like football codified after the industrial revolution were strictly limited to fit the routines of industrial city life.
(iii) Crickets most important equipment are made using pre-industrial natural materials like wood, cork, twine and leather.The materials used in equipment of other games are industrially manufactured.

(i) During this decade cricket was transformed. The traditional game evolved to fit a changing world.
(ii) 1970s was notable for the exclusion of the racial South Africa from international cricket.
(iii) 1971 was a landmark year because the first One Day International was played between England and Australia in Melbourne.
(iv) Its popularity led to staging of the First World Cup in 1975.
(v) In 1977 as the game celebrated 100 years of Test matches, the game was changed forever by Kerry Packer an Australia television tycoon. Through his unofficial Tests and One Day International under the name World Cup Series cricket was transformed int a money-spinning televised sport

Skills

The five teams that participated in the Pentangular Tournament. were 
(a) the Europeans
(b) The Parsis
(c) the Hindus
(d) the Muslims
(e) the Rest, which comprised all the communities left over such as the Indian Christians.

Despite the exclusiveness of the White cricket elite in the West Indies the game became hugely popular in the Caribbean
Reasons:
(i) Cricket was a game place by the colonial masters (British) so the people of the Caribbean wanted to copy the habits of their masters.
(ii) Success at cricket became a measure of racial equality and political, progress. 
(iii) It was looked upon as a sign of superior social nad racial status.
(iv) Many political leaders of the Caribbean countries e.g Forbes Burnham and Eric Williams saw in the game a chance of self-respect and international standing
(v) When in 1950, West Indies won its first series against England it was celebrated as a National achievement.

(i) Cricket grew out of the many stick and ball games played in England. The major equipment of cricket, the bat, is an old English word that simply means or stick.
(ii) While other English game like hockey and football became international games cricket remained limited to countries that once had been part of the British empire.
(iii) It took root only in countries that the British conquered and ruled.
(iv) In these colonies, cricket was established as a popular sport either by write settlers (e,g . Australia, South Africa, West Indies) or by the local; elites who wanted to copy the habits of their colonial masters(e.g., India)
(v) The British imperial officers brought the game to the colonies. They made little effort to spread the game in colonial territories where subjects of the empire were mainly non-Whites. Here playing cricket became a sign of superior social and racial status, e.g. West Indies, India. The colonial masters regarded 'the natives' as incapable of playing the game in its true spirit.

The rules of cricket continued to evolve in the 19th century.
(i) The rule about wide balls was applied.
(ii) The exact circumference of the ball was specified.
(iii) Protective equipment like pads and gloves were made available.
(iv) Boundaries were introduced. If the batsman fond that the ball was going to cross the boundary he need not run.
(v) Over arm bowling became legal.

(i) The professionals were paid by patronage or gate money.
(ii) As the game was seasonal, during the off season, i.e winters most professionals worked as miners or sought other working class employment.

(i) During the 1760s and 1770s, it became common to pitch the ball through the air instead of rolling it along the ground.
(ii) The curved bat was replaced by the straight bat, 4 inches in width
(iii) The weight of the six-seamed ball was limited to between 51/2 to 53/4 .ounces.
(iv) Use of IIrd stump became common.
(v) In 1774, the first leg-before-wicket law was published
(vi) By 1780, three days had become the length of major matches.
These changes helped develop the game because they gave the blowers the option to choose the length of the ball, spin and swing. They raised the premium on skill by reducing the influence of rough ground and brute force.

The Marylebone Cricket Club established in 1787 was the guardian of cricket regulations.

(i) As per the 'Laws of Cricket,' the two Umpires would be chosen from among gentlemen to decide all disputes
(ii) The stumps were to be 22 inches high and the bail across 6 inches.
(iii) The weight of the ball was to be between 5 and 6 ounces and the 2 sets of stumps 22 inches apart.
(iv) No limit was placed on the shape and size of the bat.

(i) Long drawn game: A match can go on five days and still end in a draw.
(ii) No specification of size of the ground: Cricket unlike other modern sports does not specify the size and shape of the ground. Grounds can be oval or circular 
(iii) Equipment: Important tools of the game bat, stumps, bail are still made of wood. There were no limits on the size and shape of the bat.

Sports are an integral part of contemporary life because they:
(i) assumes ourselves,
(ii) enable us to compete in a healthy way, stay fit and 
(iii) express our social loyalties

Advances in technology especially television technology have affected the development of contemporary cricket in many ways:
(i) (a) Big industry: Kerry Packer's innovative ideas helped use television technology to develop the image of cricket as a televised sport, a marketable game, which could generate huge revenue. Cricket boards became rich by selling television rights to television companies.
(b) Cricket for cricketers became a lucrative occupation.
(c) Television channels are making money by selling television spots to companies who were happy to pay large sums of money to air commercials for their products to cricket's captive audience. Continuous television coverage has made cricketers celebrities. They earn enormous sums of money by making commercials for a wide range of products.
(ii) Expansion in the audience: Television expanded the audience and broadened the social base of the game by beaming cricket into small towns and villages.
(iii) The shift in the centre of gravity: Satellite television created a global market for cricket and helped shift the balance of power in cricket from Britain to South Asia. This shift was symbolized by the shift of ICC headquarters from London to Dubai.
(iv) Improvement in the game and innovations: With the shift in the centre of gravity and scrapping of veto powers of Britain and Australia in favour of equal membership many innovations in cricket technique have been pioneered by teams in countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Television technology helped muster wide support and general acceptance of innovations in the game. Example: One Day International matches.
(v) World sport: Television along with satellite technology has helped transform cricket from a game played and viewed by limited countries and people, to a popular world sport.

The one way in which 19th century brought about a change in equipment was:
- Invention of vulcanised rubber led to the introduction of pads and gloves as protective equipment.
Examples where no change took, place, despite development of technology, were:
 The bats, the stumps and the bails---cricket's most important tools continue to be made of natural pre-industrial material---wood.