>>>Why do you write golf and he writes Cricket?
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>The paraphrase misleads. I used a prefix before "cricket." The distinction between "a" game of cricket" vs "the" game of Cricket (or even The Game of Cricket) is what directed choice of capitalization. Common versus proper. I judged the "the game of" prefix as denoting proper status since it names the game with absolute specificity rather than a common episode like Bill's round of golf. Similar to "Library of Congress" versus library at 101 Independence Ave SE. No doubt a curmudgeon purist would side with you ;-) but IMHO it's arguable if you include my prefix- though not worthy of this much attention.

Ah, this brings me to my other conundrum. It seems that Cricket is not a game, it HAS a Game Of it. As the Port of Lisabon (which is not a port and not a city, it has a port and has a city, but then what is it by itself?).

Back to the first one - a game of cricket is just any game, one of many such, but the game of Cricket is The One, so there can be only one. So, which historians have written it down, when did it happen etc?