cricketcrick‧et /ˈkrɪkɪt/ ●●○ noun 
WORD ORIGINcricket
Origin:
1 1500-1600 Old French criquet ‘stick at which a ball is thrown’2 1300-1400 Old French criquet, from the sound it makes. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- After retiring, he became a radio commentator on cricket and rugby and also wrote about both sports for Sunday newspapers.
- At the reception, to entertain the bridesmaids, I ate a black cricket the size of my thumb.
- He gets his first taste of inter-pro cricket.
- In 1937 county cricket was estimated to have lost £30,000.
- It is a hum like the sound of crickets in the summer, a sound urging men to joy and mirth.
- Outside, the crickets chirped monotonously, with a Webern-like inconsistency yet precision of rhythm.
- Think of five-day cricket on television.
- We spent beyond our means when I was playing Test cricket before and earning good money.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
the world-famous Wembley football pitch
1[uncountable] a game between two teams of 11 players in which players try to get points by hitting a ball and running between two sets of three sticks2[countable] a small brown insect that can jump, and that makes a rough sound by rubbing its wings togetherCOLLOCATIONSverbsplay cricket· Do you play cricket?watch cricket· He likes to spend summer weekends watching cricket.cricket + NOUNa cricket bat (=that you use to hit the ball)a cricket team· the Australian cricket teama cricket club (=a group of people who play cricket together, or the place where they play and meet socially)· The village cricket club held a barbecue.a cricket field/ground/pitch (=area of ground where cricket is played)· the school cricket fielda cricket match (=a game of cricket)the cricket season (=the time of year when people play cricket)a cricket player· He used to be a professional cricket player.a cricket captain (=the leader of a cricket team)a cricket tour (=a trip to a different country to play cricket)· England's cricket tour to the West Indiesa cricket fan (=someone who likes cricket, especially watching it)types of cricketcounty cricket (=played between counties in England)international/world cricket· He brought South Africa back into international cricket.Test cricket (=played between the teams of different countries)· Do you play cricket?
· He likes to spend summer weekends watching cricket.
cricket + NOUN (=that you use to hit the ball)
· the Australian cricket team
(=a group of people who play cricket together, or the place where they play and meet socially)· The village cricket club held a barbecue.
(=area of ground where cricket is played)· the school cricket field
(=a game of cricket)
(=the time of year when people play cricket)
· He used to be a professional cricket player.
(=the leader of a cricket team)
(=a trip to a different country to play cricket)· England's cricket tour to the West Indies
(=someone who likes cricket, especially watching it)
types of cricket (=played between counties in England)
· He brought South Africa back into international cricket.
(=played between the teams of different countries)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· She was practising hitting golf balls.
the world-famous Wembley football pitch· The football season will be starting soon.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· It turned out to be a fascinating insight into the way in which the best cricket team in the world prepared themselves.· The one best cricket bat of his youth was becoming the one best Midvale.· The team is being coached by Rachel Heyhoe Flint, one of the best female cricket players in the country.· If the people of Antigua had not seen the victory they wanted, they had at least enjoyed some good fighting cricket.· The school was very good at cricket, Ramsey was not.· He was not a good fielder at cricket.· Good-natured critics in the dressing-room wink and ask him why he saves all his best cricket for New Zealand.· The Oval was a good cricket wicket despite the stories that it was being prepared for Laker and Lock.
· This was Trescothick's first failure in international cricket in his seven outings, so let's not carp too much.· He will certainly need to be well prepared for the task which faces him, with international cricket politics becoming increasingly complex.· However, this began to trail off towards the end of June due to outside distractions - Wimbledon tennis and International cricket.· Gatting and his former colleagues will be eligible to play international cricket again from Oct 1.
· It was the same with our local village cricket team.
NOUN· Now the hard leather cricket ball had inflamed this old injury.· Can his death really be blamed on a cricket ball?· Winston Churchill, with extraordinary perspicacity, wrote at the time: Meeting an artillery attack is like catching a cricket ball.· Meeting an artillery attack is like catching a cricket ball.· There were no houses, no people, no hills, and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball.
· Taking a cricket bat to the audition isn't a bad idea although you can get the same effect with an umbrella.· The one best cricket bat of his youth was becoming the one best Midvale.· Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years.· The following Summer in London, while shopping for a cricket bat, his journal fills with prices and estimates of quality.· Opposite: The cricket bat was made by John Wisden & Co.· Peters & Son, a store carrying ship models and archery equipment along with cricket bats, particularly draws his attention.· Suddenly I was jumping, yelling out as the flagstone beat my feet like a cudgel or stone cricket bat.· In the event, Hilary rummaged around in the gym and found a cricket bat and ball.
· He was a former cricket captain of the Royal Bangkok Sports Club.
· Five years ago rugby club chiefs were in favour of selling but the cricket club committee was firmly against.· Glenn Ferguson - staying put A new era is dawning at Strabane cricket club.· Nobody could ever have thought that joining a cricket club was like opening a Sunday paper colour supplement.· Home was suddenly less inviting than the cricket club.· During 1915 many Dunedin cricket clubs had to withdraw teams as so many players were enlisting.· He had a white panama hat with the colours of the Southsea cricket club on the hat band.· An informal group formed this week has been mobilising the support of cricket clubs throughout the island to stay away from the game.
· They desperately need a top-class fast bowler and ordered their cricket committee to come up with a suitable candidate.· Benjamin had powerful backing in the Yorkshire cricket committee.
· Graveney feels that in county cricket there is not the same class of speed attack as is found in Test cricket.· A part of the difficulty in leaving county cricket lies in its consuming characteristic.· Essex are the county cricket champions.· Viv Richards: no more county cricket?· Cricket was even less open to the winds of free competition. County cricket made little concession to spectators.· And here, along with many others, he is highly critical of the structure of county cricket.· Nearby is the county cricket ground.
· But he is a keen cricket fan.
· There have been a few uneasy ripples around the cricket fields of Glamorgan this season, of course.· Time allowed 00:08 Read in studio Gloucestershire are continuing to struggle on the cricket field.
· All we saw was the inside of the hotel and the inside of a cricket ground.· Developers Foinavon have slapped in a £5m bid for first-class cricket ground Acklam Park in Middlesbrough.· Nearby is the county cricket ground.· Seemed to be on kissing terms with half the chaps in the cricket ground, when we got there.· He leased a field in the area and turned it into a cricket ground.· It's within reach of the cricket ground at Taunton.
· One man had taken photographs in the churchyard ... and at that cricket match when Flyte had been scoring.· Let Lopwitz watch all the cricket matches he wants to!· Looking down, Branson could see a cricket match in progress in the grounds.· He is at the cricket match today?· There his spot was to organize a Tonbridge v Clifton cricket match, news of which hit the national press.· Tomorrow, which was a Saturday, David was going to a cricket match at Luke's school.· He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match.· First a cricket match with a murder at the end of it, then having to face Mama.
· The garden will double as go-kart track, cricket pitch, tennis court.· He looked as if he had just walked off the cricket pitch.· In abeyance at the moment is a cricket pitch.· There is a playing field with equipment for the younger members of the community, and a football and cricket pitch.· There is a cricket pitch in a village green setting and small zoo for the children.· The new building will serve the existing football and cricket pitches, tennis court and bowling green.
· Lord Beresford was disposed to chat about the forthcoming cricket season, but was briskly recalled to his duties.· Admittedly it was only March, but the cricket season could never come too early for Hilary.· Dora Westbourne was a catch in one way, but in the cricket season a decided liability.
· Philippa had once been captain of Cheltenham Ladies' College cricket team.· It turned out to be a fascinating insight into the way in which the best cricket team in the world prepared themselves.· Read in studio Voice over Kevin Maxwell has caused a stir by turning out for his village cricket team.· He is opening bat in his school's cricket team and is Bedfordshire Schools' table tennis champion.· I had been thrown off the cricket team at school for making daisy chains on the boundary.· Diane Mynors saved us from oblivion by playing in the Oxford Women's first eleven cricket team which defeated Cambridge.· It was the same with our local village cricket team.· Perhaps, thought Robert, Mr Mafouz had bought his son into an unassailable position on the cricket team.
· Lord's celebrated its centenary of Test cricket and produced a match worthy of the occasion.· When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said.· It was a great advertisement for Test cricket, with the instant variety of the World Cup just around the corner.· We spent beyond our means when I was playing Test cricket before and earning good money.· From 92 for 9 to 209 for 9 represented one of the oddest innings in Test cricket.· He expects the jump from county to Test cricket to be another step up in terms of bowling and concentration.· It revealed their inexperience, captain Wessels admitted, and showed them that standards in Test cricket were very high.
· However, the shadow of war was beginning to cloud the cricket world.· The cricket world cup is an absolute must.· Still only 22, Ramprakash has the cricket world at his feet.· This week's, though, is one of my favourites - the cricket World Cup.· For one thing, it's cricket World Cup.
VERB· He is married with three children and enjoys gardening and cricket.· Now he's enjoying his cricket.· Outside politics, he enjoys opera, cricket and real ale.
· Not only has Malvern College gone co-educational, but the girls are actually being allowed to play cricket.· Boys in bare feet are playing cricket in the grounds of the university.· We spent beyond our means when I was playing Test cricket before and earning good money.· There was time for one innings only if you were playing cricket.· Mr. Scott I play cricket with the hon. Gentleman, and I know that he understands the laws of that game.· When he played cricket at school, he opened the bowing and the batting.· I remember occasionally, very occasionally, he used to play cricket with me on the lawn.
· Now Martin is looking forward to spending his retirement enjoying outside interests which will include travelling, walking and watching cricket.· Let Lopwitz watch all the cricket matches he wants to!· That explains why for six months in a year we watch cricket and for the next six talk about it.· Everybody who is watching that particular channel at that particular time has tuned in to watch the cricket.· There are two ways of watching cricket on television.
· Grayshott quiz double Grayshott Youth made it a club double when they won the junior inter-club cricket quiz on Tuesday night.