How To Use Cricket In A Sentence

I'm a 25-year-old single bloke who plays international cricket and tours the world.
The epic cricket battle between England and Australia has sparked a deluge of wagers. The Sun
There is a persisting myth in Indian cricket that spin is more important than pace.
Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
The sound of crickets chirruping filled the still air.

Test cricket can examine bravery, it can expose technical frailties, and it can take players into new territory. Times, Sunday Times
The latest crisis in West Indies cricket and the unceremonious sacking of the best WI talent is the ultimate insult to West Indians.
Deep down, this great patriot and cricketer has taken no pleasure from one humiliation after another. Times, Sunday Times
Football was number one but he had also done athletics, basketball, volleyball and cricket.
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His sister played cricket, then considered very much a silvertail sport for girls in private schools.
The trio flew back to Pakistan earlier this month, before the end of the cricket tour. Times, Sunday Times
Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
On the clapometer scale it was somewhere between the closing credits of Countdown and a wet Thursday at Hove cricket ground. Radio catchup: The Doctor Who Prom and Cabin Pressure
Today he is seen as one of the most dangerous all-rounders in international cricket.
A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman.
As we were getting changed, I noticed some of my new team-mates were putting on what looked like cricket boxes.
The springtime calling of frogs had given way to the chirping of crickets and the distant barks of rutting roe deer.
The standard of professional cricket has never been lower.
All the other campers were gone to either river raft or kayak, and the campground was totally quiet, all you could hear were the crickets and an occasional moo from a cow.
Traditionally, white flannels are worn when playing cricket.
Most of the time during the past decade the England cricket team has been battling for survival.
We had no TV, so we had no idea what a Sobers sweep or a Hall bouncer actually looked like; we were left to interpolate between newspaper stills and glossies from cricket books.
But the stiff-necked jerk never called, and cricket has gone doolally as a result.
The colourful Yorkshireman umpired the first innings of a game between an Old England XI and Lashings World XI at Scarborough Cricket Club.
There's a big drive through a big deer park and a big sign at the start like a cricket scoreboard informing how many big deer have been killed on the road this year.
Much is riding on the new one-day format's capacity to attract young and old to a version of the game which is played midweek up and down the country in club cricket but has never before been offered up as a county crowd-puller.
England's new regime is keen to end the view that one-day cricket is a glorified feeder system. Times, Sunday Times
Animals need to adapt their bodies to survive and prosper in extreme conditions, as do cricketers their skills. Times, Sunday Times
Night birds had started to sing, and crickets to chirp in the grass, as though conspiring to celebrate this reunion. EVERVILLE
Cricketers will be shown a red card for serious incidents under new laws expected to come into force next year. Times, Sunday Times
Working on that invariable response, and the number of cricket fans in the country, there must have been three to four million spectators there that amazing day.
Reuters England's Steven Finn reacts after a misfield Thursday during the team's third one-day international cricket match against India in Mohali. Both India, England Struggle on Foreign Soil
South African cricketers had better get used to being dope tested once the United Cricket Board of South Africa introduces its anti-doping policy at its annual meeting in August.
He is highly respected throughout the cricket association for his skill and competitiveness.
One member was said to be carrying a washing-up liquid bottle, thought to contain ammonia, while another had a brown cricket kit type bag.
Umpteen mistakes were made, overthrows, byes, no-balls, bad shots, all of them a reminder that cricket is a game of the spirit.
In Africa, the songs of crickets are said to have magic powers.
A speedy resolution of the issue would be most welcome, so that we can get on with the business of cricket. Times, Sunday Times
Athletics and Cricket were in the summer, which meant overall we did mainly did four sets of sport.
Wisden owned a sporting goods and tobacconist shop in London's Leicester Square and in 1864 he brought out the first edition of his cricketers' almanac, which has been published every year since.
Cricketers used to retire and then go and earn serious money. Times, Sunday Times
I was sometimes playing against former test cricketers.
Cutties are being added to the fantastic game of cricket.
The first act deals with the beastly behaviour of bees and act two features avaricious beetles, greedy ducks and dopey crickets with a pronounced Cork accent.
Figure 1 shows sonograms and oscillograms of a whine-plus-chuck call of a túngara frog (Physalaemus pustulosus; left) and a call group of a cricket frog (Acris crepitans; right).
We've played a lot of cricket together growing up. The Sun
Even at his preparatory school, where he was known as a swot of the first water, he had displayed an unhealthy infatuation for that tongue; he loved its cold, lapidary construction; and while other boys played football or cricket, this withered little fellow used to lark about with a note-book, all by himself, torturing sensible South Wind
He was 32, at his peak as a cricketer, but life then brought him a series of disappointments.
The product works as either a preventive or curative control for fire ants, mole crickets, sod webworms, cutworms, armyworms and chinch bugs.
By a curious twist of fate, cricket was also my favourite sport.
Shouts of "Howzat!" resounded across a Beijing football pitch as Chinas cricketers battled yesterday for victory in the first final of the National Cricket Tournament.
He could easily join the ranks of those who find first-class cricket a bit of a mystery while Test cricket becomes a natural environment. Times, Sunday Times
In the studio David Gower, Mike Atherton and Ian Botham lurked around an unusually small cardboard coffee table looking oddly bleached-out, a sense of ghostliness accentuated by the ever-present World Cup logo with its backdrop of faceless, baying cartoon figures set against a glaring firestorm of a sky, like a Soviet-era depiction of some future cricketing apocalypse. India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay
It can be drummed into county cricket a little more about just how important it is to report if something is dodgy. Times, Sunday Times
It is not just that he has turned 50; it has more to do with the fact that he has been retired from test cricket for eight years, nearly a decade.
My enthusiasm one-day cricket is still there. The Sun
He would go to work the next day with a cricket bag full of all the rabbits and pheasants that he'd poached. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Buhner jokes how he used to hear crickets chirp from the upper decks of the Kingdome and the sound of a toilet flushing in the 300-level. USATODAY.com - M's enjoy newfound happiness
The chairman of the football club embroiled in cricket's match-fixing scandal has apparently taken his own life. Times, Sunday Times
Generally, pitfall trap data indicated that darkling beetles significantly preferred unmowed areas to mowed areas, while crickets showed no preference.
I don't think floodlights have a place in four-day cricket. Times, Sunday Times
Your piece last month on sporting insults was missing a memorable sledge from an Australia v Zimbabwe cricket match.
He looks too insubstantial to be a serious cricketer. Times, Sunday Times
As we filled our pockets greedily, the family playing cricket in the wind looked at us strangely.
In a star-spangled career stretching nearly forty years Derek McCann has stonewalled every single team that has participated in Section One of the Northern Cricket Union.
It would willingly unburden the clubs of a major share of financial responsibility to England's elite and pay the players itself through central contracting, just as England does with its top cricketers.
The new building will serve the existing football and cricket pitches, tennis court and bowling green.
This is a triumph for Durham and for English cricket in its widest application. Times, Sunday Times
They see him as a potential match-winner when the new four-day format is brought into championship cricket next year.
The subcontinent provides cricket with so much of its commercial and cultural lifeblood that the game cannot stop for long. Times, Sunday Times
Later on, when I was well enough to wash myself in the bathroom, I found that there was kept there a huge packing case into which the scraps of food and dirty dressings from the ward were flung, and the wainscotings were infested by crickets. How the Poor Die
The powers that be in cricket had seen enough changes in South Africa to grant us re-entry and a chance to play against the top countries in the world.
None of this constitutes the end of my career as an international cricketer. Times, Sunday Times
Oxford UCCE women's cricket team began this season as they finished the last - with a comprehensive victory over their Cambridge rivals.
That winter, the night we built our first big fire, we also hatched out about a million katydids, or as some folk call them, camel crickets.
At a one-to-one with a panel of cricketers on Sunday, the boys shot some questions which the professionals had a hard time answering.
He said it did not take a lot to adjust his batting to Test cricket from one-dayers.
Well in cricket, unlike in baseball or basketball or football, you get fights on the field.
Not since Clay was stripped of his world title for conscientiously objecting to serving in Vietnam has a sportsman suffered as grave an injustice as this cricketer.
Unlike, say, a tennis racket or cricket bat, a snooker cue is thought irreplaceable by its owner.
Think of a cricket team as a tribe, and the senior players as elders of that tribe. Times, Sunday Times
A large part of county cricket is about producing England players, and this would hold him in great stead. Times, Sunday Times
Cricket, with its googlies, boseys, chinamen, silly legs, byes, sundries - the whole argot - was incomprehensible without deep explanation.
And the cricket world, with its benefit years, charity quizzes and galas, is quite good at rattling buckets.
Crickets chirped, owls hooted, and cicadas caterwauled in screechy harmony.
G'day, Robbo - last time I had the pleasure of speaking to you, we were thrashing you Poms at the cricket.
Cricket fans will be disappointed to see cricket admissions also excluded from the list, although footballs and dumb-bells make an entrance.
Close retired from county cricket at the end of the following season, and moved back to Yorkshire. Times, Sunday Times
So the house was full of hot, sweaty men - yabbering away about the cricket.
Then, after a light lunch, he would walk down to the university cricket ground to watch a game.
Whether he knew it, he was on course for a historic achievement, becoming only the seventh batsmen in Test cricket to score centuries both on their first appearance at home and on their debut abroad.
Fans naturally have an interest in hearing just what our cricketing heroes have to say about themselves, their careers and the great game itself.
The argument echoed historian G.M. Trevelyan's quip about the French Revolution: ‘if the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.’
So the cricket World Cup next year runs from February 8 to March 23 and takes 42 games to eliminate eight countries from a pool of 14.
He was a fun guy to play cricket against and fun to play under while he was coach. The Sun
He hails from a cricket loving family where all his brothers played the game at the highest level.
The Laws of Cricket and the ICC playing regulations both prohibit the bowling of underarm deliveries.
A left-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, Tindill's international cricket career spanned nearly a decade, either side of World War Two in which he served as a member of the NZEF. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
The trouble is, it is his larger-than-life character that helps make him the compelling cricketer he is. The Sun
The Ticket Window random draw ballot for individual matches at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 is now complete.
The trio flew back to Pakistan earlier this month, before the end of the cricket tour. Times, Sunday Times
When I was five, she bought me chocolates and chewing gum and we talked about cricket.
By now, Miller was as well known around racecourses and training stables as on cricket fields.
The brief hiatus from Test cricket hasn't added too much zest to his bowling, but it seems to have revitalised Javagal Srinath the batsman.
Test match cricket is often affected by changeable weather. Times, Sunday Times
Under the band of Milky Way stars, we listened to crickets pulsate in the dewy grass, and watched the orange coals lick themselves with tiny flames.
Besides birds, crickets and grasshoppers were his favorite animals.
It is a weekday afternoon, but the pub near the Oval cricket ground is packed. Times, Sunday Times
Gone are the days of meeting in the club bar and discussing cricket and learning the game from hardened club players and sharing in their experiences.
She is a qualified coach and umpire who has helped develop an impressive number of pupils from the school who play in the colts teams at Ealing, Brentham, Perivale and Wembley cricket clubs.
It means he is free to play megabucks Twenty20 cricket as a freelance gun for hire for any team anywhere in the world. The Sun
He batted confidently and with style and shows himself to be a valuable acquisition for Border cricket.
This kind of cricket is totally irrelevant to that which the rest of the world plays. Times, Sunday Times
The subsequent retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan, and that of Lasith Malinga from Test cricket, marks the end of a glorious era in Sri Lankan cricket. Mahela Jayawardene: 'I still get flashbacks. We're lucky to be alive'
That means youngsters regularly playing tough cricket against strong opposition. Times, Sunday Times
Cricket is often cited as an example of sporting language that is witty and erudite. Times, Sunday Times
His batting probably mirrors his personality more than for most cricketers.
A season of English county cricket with Kent converted him to a complete all-rounder.
The rudeness of its personnel is legendary, yet it seems perversely proud to be the Fawlty Towers of English cricket, where everything would be fine if it wasn't for the deuced public wanting to watch cricket there.
The chase for a premium berth in the finals has really turned up the heat in local cricket with all four sides remaining in the hunt, based on last Saturday's play.
The product works as either a preventive or curative control for fire ants, mole crickets, sod webworms, cutworms, armyworms and chinch bugs.
It is true that the wretched weather has left them short of match practice and there is little cricket over the next few days in which to get their rhythm back.
The sort of man who practises imaginary cricket strokes along empty hotel corridors and has a special jacket for afternoon walks. Times, Sunday Times
Cricket is primarily a man's game, bearing all the hallmarks of male camaraderie.
The boys here are the pick of the under-15 cricketers in the country.
I can't describe it explicitly without pictures, but suffice it to say that there are definite positions for fieldsmen in cricket.
Is he still playing cricket & renovating properties in Bretagne? Petite americaine
Graveney, a man who knows a little about picking international cricketers after his 11 years as chairman of the selectors, witnessed what he calls "an extraordinary performance with both bat and ball" against Hampshire at the start of the month, in which Stokes scored a boisterous 135 not out and took six wickets with his skiddy medium pace. New kids on the block stake their claim for England Test place
Cricket bosses, players and members of the public will get together to further plans to recruit budding players and form a team.
With the introduction of the Internet, electronic and computer games, etc, we have seen a reduction in the relative time spent by budding West Indian cricketers on the cricket field.
All of which means that a touring cricket team do not need to make life any harder for themselves than it has to be. Times, Sunday Times
There are the jingoists, the nationalists who just would want the Australian cricket side to win anything they ever enter.
A mass pitch invasion by hundreds of Pakistani fans left a steward badly injured, and forced a team to concede a match for the first time in the history of cricket.
Compared with the cricket, they were all rather sedate.
No cricket writer or radio commentator was more industrious and conscientious. Times, Sunday Times
Umpiring error all too often merely compounds cricketing error.
So well ordered is cricket history that it is almost permanently celebrating centenaries. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
He looked as if he had just walked off the cricket pitch.
Taking a cricket bat to the audition isn't a bad idea although you can get the same effect with an umbrella.
More than half a dozen England cricket captains were there. Times, Sunday Times
The World Cup overlaps the cricketing season here: the run-up to the sweltering summer months when sun-baked rice fields double as cricket stadiums in the suburban areas.
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The screech of crickets for ring tones is only one of the myriad innovations on cell phones.
The married father of three says he finds time in his busy schedule to play village cricket. Times, Sunday Times
His death has left a void in the cricketing world which can never be filled.
This was the culmination of a pretty dismal winter's cricket. Times, Sunday Times
In addition, cricket has breaks in play between overs every three or four minutes.
Normally male crickets call females by rubbing specialized protruding wing parts together, creating an effect similar to running a thumbnail down the teeth of a comb.
Does the ability to play the keyboard or bat well on a cricket team really matter?
There is no indication what the surface was, but it served for all manner of games from football to hockey, to cricket.
Students are able to compete in a number of sports, including football, netball, basketball, cricket and hockey.
Fourteen men a side is not rugby union, nor league, and certainly not cricket, and the sooner they learn that the better for the dignity of the game and future tourists.
No one actually knows when sledging started, but since time immemorial disparaging remarks have been part of the sport in general - and cricket in particular.
He turns cricket into a personal duel, sometimes too much so. Times, Sunday Times
Then it was back to the championship, before the toing and froing between long and short-form cricket continues. Times, Sunday Times
Geoff Boycott became the 18th player to score 100 centuries in cricket, and the first to reach the landmark in a Test.
Ronde de Nice squash, hard-skinned and as smooth as a cricket ball will bake well with a dab of garlic butter, and yet the young marrows would be just as good.
On one beach, hemmed in by cliffs on either side and palm trees at the back, some Grenadians are playing cricket, three sticks jammed into the sand for stumps.
Saturday's final will feature a tantalizing showdown between Tendulkar, the leading run scorer in cricket history, and Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan, the sport's all-time leading wicket-taker. Billingsley Shows Love for Los Angeles
York would benefit particularly from the planned cricket, football, and all-weather five-a-side football pitches.
They go from the sublime to the ridiculous with their cricket. The Sun
In what other sport but cricket could you get 26,000 people splashing around in the puddles of a filthily overcast ground, waiting in vain for a game that might never resume?
When a Jamaican family moves in next door and build a cricket net in the back garden, David is thrilled.
Since the two test victories over Bangladesh there's been a something of a brouhaha in cricket circles about the validity of their presence in Test cricket.
The quiet settled in like a warm blanket, no birds sang, no crickets chirped.
English cricket's performance centre has a dubious reputation. The Sun
That poor misguided soul was, like as not, struck fixedly mute by the sheer torturous weight of cricketing knowledge displayed hereabouts.
But if you are a chameleon, you can sneak in and move ahead with the furtiveness required in one-day cricket.
Starmers has been chosen to umpire the next cricket test match.
Together, they build up a vivid picture of cricket's most exasperating sons.
Yeadon have been grateful for a number of part-time cricketers helping them out in their hour of need.
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Cricket is the national game among the school-boys of the Punjab, from the naked hedge-school children, who use an old kerosine-tin for wicket, to the B. A.'s of the University, who compete for the The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling
It was for sixteen-year-olds at an all-girls school (like hers, long time ago, in Secunderabad, St. Ann's) with a crush on a cricket player (like Imran Khan, it was almost natural to have a crush on him). For the Sake of the Boy
Insects such as grasshoppers, crickets, and butterflies are a major part of their summer diet which also includes mammals such as mice, voles, young squirrels and rabbits, and shrews.
At this time, football was a strictly amateur sport, even though many of the people involved in its administration, such as Alcock, were also involved in cricket which had been played by professionals for about 200 years. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Fender's life outside cricket was bursting with unusual achievements.
Since 1902 the game has been played between Somerset Cricket Club and St. George's Cricket Club, with the venue for the two-day match alternating each year.
The job of cricket captain gives a player more responsibility than any player shoulders in any other team sport. Times, Sunday Times
I like cricket, I like sitting on the boundary with a cold beer, nattering with my friends, half an eye on the game, getting burned because I forgot the sun cream.
The first warning she was given was a sudden impact on a high branch of an oak-tree a yard or two from where she stood, and the falling to earth, delayed by the thick crepitant layers of green-gold, sun-soaked leaves, of a cricket ball. The Judge
It’s also true that to write about cricket in this country is no longer to surrender automatically to the hegemony of American culture; until quite recently, the word cricketer, when typed into my computer, would be underscored by a squiggly red line. Bowling Alone
Behind us on the summer blue dune, came the chirr of crickets. COASTLINERS
The village has a good sports field with football and cricket teams.
Bolton cricket has been saddened by the death in hospital yesterday of Frank Baldwin.
Yet the real battle for England is hoping its cricket revival is not going to be torn to shreds in this game by a rampant Aussie team who simply refuse to show any mercy to the old enemy.
My dad probably viewed it as a way of surreptitiously dosing us with cricket rules, and regrets it to this day.
Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long.
There is still some way to go before cricket can hope to match football for greed and dishonesty, but it's getting there. Times, Sunday Times
We see how excited people get when England start winning at cricket, football or rugby.
In Remainder cricket is pure facticity, which keeps coming at you, carrying death, leaving its mark. Zadie Smith, Mark Thwaite, Negativity and Whining for the New
The married father of three says he finds time in his busy schedule to play village cricket. Times, Sunday Times
It's amazing how often a game of cricket can turn on one single stroke of tinny luck.
Pizza topped with crickets and algae - high in protein and easily stored in powdered form - will be the first recipe tested. Times, Sunday Times
Just reserved a load of tee times tomorrow for the England cricketers and commentary team! Times, Sunday Times
He needs to sort out his batting in domestic cricket. The Sun
Playing games at just a few city grounds and neglecting cricket heartlands in the shires risks killing off the game in those areas. Times, Sunday Times
Amid a spray of spilt drinks and nibbles, much cheering, dancing and backslapping, the unruly crowd vented their delirium in the manner of Indian cricket spectators, setting alight their match programs and letting off fireworks.
No rivalry in Indian cricket was as intense yet as free from rancour as that between Kunderan and Faroukh Engineer.

How To Use Cricket In A Sentence

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