How the organisation of cricket in England reflected the nature of English society?

The organisation of cricket in England reflected the nature of English society in the following ways:
(i) The rich played it for pleasure and were called amateurs. To play for the pleasure and not for money was considered as an aristocratic value.
(ii) The poor played it for a living and were called professionals.
(iii) The wages of professionals were paid by the patronage or subscription or gate money.
(iv) The game was seasonal and did not offer employment the year around. Most
professionals worked as minors or in other forms of working class employment in winter, that was oft season.
(v) Amateurs were called Gentleman while professionals were described as players.
(vi) They even entered the ground from different entrances.
(vii) Amateurs tended to be batsman, leaving the energetic, hardworking aspects of the game, like fast bowling, to the professionals. It is due to this fact that the laws of the game always give benefit of doubt to the batsman.
(viii) The social superiority of the amateur was also the reason, the captain of a cricket team was traditionally a batsman; because they were generally Gentlemen. Captains of teams, whether club teams or national sides – were always amateurs. lt was only in 1930s that the English test team was led by a professional Yorkshire batsman, Len Hutton.
(ix) The cricket is a batsman’s game because its rules were made to favour ‘Gentlemen,.