cricket match

collocation in English

meaningsofcricketandmatch

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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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match
noun
uk
/mætʃ/us
/mætʃ/
mainly UK
a sports competition or event in which two people or teams compete against ...
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(Definition ofcricketandmatchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Then we had lunch, and following that we went to thecricketmatch.
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Most people go to acricketmatchnot to watch the game, but to sleep in the sun.
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What will happen if a disgruntled person decides to disrupt acricketmatch?
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The emphasis in the debate has changed from time to time in a way that is quite worthy of the most excitingcricketmatch.
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Is it not ridiculous that one should have to go into hospital to hear a commentary on a localcricketmatch?
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He spoke of people watching acricketmatchand said that if those in the front sat down those at the back could see.
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It was a public holiday and therefore the men were not working, and there was acricketmatch.
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Suppose that a hundred people go to acricketmatchwith a view to disrupting the game.
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It is too much like acricketmatch; it is psychologically wrong.
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The paraplegic men who are fortunate enough to get out of bed have to be wheeled if they go to a football orcricketmatch.
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I do not think it should be treated like acricketmatch.
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Certainly when the weather is reasonably fine most people would prefer to attend a football orcricketmatchrather than go to any indoor entertainment.
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What we need is not a privatecricketmatchbut acricketmatchin which all can join.
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There is something peculiarly refreshing and restful about sleeping in the proximity of acricketmatch, which puts it in a special position among sports.
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In the cricket season there is the interdepartmentalcricketmatchand there are interdepartmental darts matches and bowling matches.
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A man was preparing the pitch for acricketmatch.
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A friendly tennis match orcricketmatchbetween two village teams does not require many people to service it.
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Acricketmatchwas taking place, and behind it there was a very old manor house and the tower of a church.
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That is a delightful reason for going to acricketmatch.
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But this whole issue is like acricketmatchwith a very good fast bowler but no batsman.
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