Too much cheese alert!
Agence France-Presse astounds with We invented cricket, say French:

A Former president of the French cricket federation has revived claims that his country invented a sport widely regarded as the embodiment of Englishness.

Didier Marchois, who plays for Chauny, northern France, told Britain's Sunday Express newspaper that medieval documents referred to matches near the battlefields of Crecy and Agincourt during the Hundred Years War.

"They leave no room for doubt," Marchois said. "Cricket was born in the north of France and taken across the Channel by English soldiers who picked it up from us during truce periods in the Hundred Years War."

I find it hard to believe that the French army had time for cricket at Crecy and Agincourt as they were kept rather busy plucking arrows out of their butts.