Sports women were not designed as vigorous exercise. Croquet a slow paced elegant game was considered suitable for women of the upper class. For purpose of exercise, walking and skipping were recommended. Even in the late 19th century though women started playing games earlier considered male preserves, competition was discouraged.

During British colonial rule cricket came to represent all that the Victorian English valued fair play, discipline and gentlemanliness.

Cricket's equipment despite changes has remained true to its village origin
(i) Most important tools of cricket are made of natural, pre-industrial materials. The bats, stumps and bails are all made of wild. The cricket ball is still made with leather, twine and cork
(ii) the cricket bat once cut out of a single piece of wood is still made of wood but now it consists of two pieces.
(iii) The blade is made from wood of the willow tree and the handle is made of cane. Unlike other sports, cricket has refused to make its tools with industrial and man-made materials 
(iv) Only the protective equipment, e.g, pads helmets, gloves are made of vulcanised rubber, metal or synthetic light weight materials

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.

The rich were called amateurs.
(i) They were called amateurs they considered sport a kind of leisure. To play for pleasure and not money was an aristocratic value.
(ii) There was not enough money in the game for the rich to be interested. The wages of the professionals were paid by subscription and patronage.

(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 first six seam cricket ball was created

Cricket has come to represent the unity of India.Cricket matches are organised to establish friendship between nations and cricketers are seen as ambassadors of the country. The game has come to capture the imagination to such an extent that news of cricket hits the headlines of the print and visual media.

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