Answer:
(a)
In England, cricketers were divided into two distinct groups. The affluent and
the rich players who played cricket for leisure were known as 'amateurs and the
poor who played the cricket for money were called as professionals'.
(b) (i) The amateurs considered sport a kind of leisure.
(ii) There was not enough money in the game for the rich.
(c) The laws of cricket gave benefit of doubt to the batsman
because the amateurs were always batsman. As most of the cricket clubs were controlled
by the aristocrat class, they moulded the laws in favour of their interest.
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