1)It was clearly stated about the origination of cricket in the passage that ___________

A) Cricket originated as a royal game of kings and princes
B) Cricket was merely a game of children of lower class people until it was played by Prince Edward
C) without doubt -Creag- is the former pronunciation of the game that is called -Cricket- today
D)the French term -croquet- seems to be one of the possible roots to the word Cricket
E) there are only three possible alternatives for the derivation of the term -Cricket- such as -croquet-,-krick- and -crycc-