The British people like everyone else like sports and games. There are football, cricket, tennis, golf, hockey, athletics and climbing, horse-riding and boating, rugby and rowing.Cricket is an English national game. It is known that people played cricket in England as early as 1550.Boxing as a British sport is one of the oldest. Golf was developed in Scotland and now is widely spread all over Britain. Tennis, or lawn tennis is another popular game in Britain. It was first played in England in 1872 and the first championship at Wimbledon was in 1877. These kinds of sports are very popular nowadays.