cricket ground

collocation in English

meaningsofcricketandground

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cricket
noun
uk
/ˈkrɪk.ɪt/us
/ˈkrɪk.ɪt/
a sport in which two teams of eleven players try to score runs (= points) by hitting a small, hard ball with a bat, and running between two sets of small ...
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ground
noun
uk
/ɡraʊnd/us
/ɡraʊnd/
the surface of ...
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(Definition ofcricketandgroundfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There are, within close proximity of each other, two first-class football grounds and one first-classcricketground, on which test match cricket is played.
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It is home to the county that plays on unarguably the most attractivecricketgroundin the country.
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As a result, even thecricketgroundwas attacked.
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But the cricket supporter arrives at thecricketgroundat half past two in the afternoon.
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Will the man who allows that to take place on hiscricketgroundhe "had up" because he has permitted money to be taken?
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I was involved in the establishment of acricketground.
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Suppose that you have a ground used for charitable purposes and in future used for acricketground.
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After construction the land on top of the tunnel will be returned to its current use, which is as acricketground.
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We all know what a pint or a yard is, and we cannot conceive of acricketgroundmeasured in metres.
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I have known people grant the use, say, of theircricketgroundfor the purposes of a hospital.
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At our localcricketgroundmany old-age pensioners and elderly people come to watch the matches.
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I want to know how much work is going on in that vicinity, and whether thecricketgroundwill be protected.
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I represent a constituency in which there are floods most years, mainly of thecricketgroundand race course, but frequently of housing, too.
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It has benefited from the fund with a new pavilion entirely in keeping with the rustic retreat that thecricketgroundsurely is.
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I saw the man's pay ticket on thecricketground, and he frothed at the mouth.
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For instance, very often you find that there is a licence connected with acricketground.
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Yet not one of these clubs is allowed to have a lease or in any way to enclose itscricketgroundagainst animals.
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Acricketgroundhas two to four matches per week, and that means four to eight teams.
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First, a monopoly may be created if those who control thecricketgroundprovide facilities only for one bookmaker.
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A major village comprises 800 to 1,000 people with a school, shops, a surgery, a garage, a policeman, a parson, and perhaps acricketgroundwhere the parson plays cricket.
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