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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :

Cricket grew out of many stick and ball games played in England about 500 years ago. The word 'bat' is an old English word which simply means a club or a stick. By the seventeenth century, cricket had evolved enough to be recognised as a distinct game. Till the middle of the eighteenth century, bats were roughly of the same shape as hockey sticks, curving outwards at the bottom. There was a simple reason for this, the ball was bowled underarm, along the ground and the curve at the end of the bat gave the batsman the best chance of making a contact.

(c) What were the shapes of bats of the eighteenth century?

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(c) Bats were of the shape of hockey stick in the eighteenth century, curving outwards at the bottom