Jesus Christ was world's first cricketer, experts claim

It’s Lord’s Jesus: Son of God was world’s first cricketer, experts claim (and he really bowled them over with his fielding-on-water skills)

• He wielded a bat 2,000 years before game was thought to have been invented
• Details of his playing days as a child were apparently found in an unseen Gospel
• Claims were made on ‘Rest Is History’ podcast featuring historian Tom Holland

Jesus Christ was the world’s first person to play cricket and he used his walking-on-water skills to chase the ball, historians have claimed.

The son of God wielded a bat nearly 2,000 years before the game was thought to have been invented.

Details of The Second Coming’s cricket playing days as a child were apparently found in a previously unseen Gospel.

The claims were made on the ‘Rest Is History’ podcast featuring historians Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook and John Hotten.

Jesus Christ was the world’s first person to play cricket and he used his walking-on-water skills to chase the ball, historians have claimed. Pictured: Jesus seen in a 1665 painting by Luca Giordano

Discussing who was the first recorded player, Holland told the pod: ‘Do you know who it was? It’s a big name. It’s Jesus.

‘Shall I tell you what Armenian professor Dr Abraham Terian thinks it came from?

‘He found in the manuscript library of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem an eighth century copy of a much earlier gospel which described the infancy of Jesus.

The son of God wielded a bat nearly 2,000 years before the game was thought to have been invented. Pictured: Roman Walker defends during Day 3 of the LV= Insurance County Champ Div 2 match

‘And in this gospel Jesus is described as playing something faintly similar to cricket, i.e. people throwing balls and he’s hitting it – and the catch is Jesus, when he chases the ball, can run onto the sea.’

The Gospel apparently translates as: ‘He (Jesus) would take the boys to the seashore and, carrying the playing ball and the club, he would go over the waves of the sea as though he was playing on a frozen surface, hitting the playing ball.

‘And watching him, the boys would scream and say: “Watch the child Jesus, what he does over the waves of the sea!” 

‘Many would gather there and, watching him, would be amazed.’

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