cricket player

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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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player
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpleɪ.ər/us
/ˈpleɪ.ɚ/
someone who takes part in a game ...
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(Definition ofcricketandplayerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Cricket players, like other female athletes of this era, dressed in ankle length skirts, wore long sleeved blouses, and wore a hat and tie.
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The awards recognise and honour the best international cricket players of the previous 12 months.
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The inner circumference of the park is. 112937 m2 in area, the ground is busy with young cricket players.
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This stadium will serve as a training facility for cricket players.
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It is an online game where you create a virtual team of real cricket players and score points depending on how your chosen players perform in real life matches.
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These reasons are not conclusive, of course, for they do not in any sense require that one be acricketplayerrather than a baseball player.
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He was a former local hockey andcricketplayerwho had celebrated his silver wedding anniversary a month before the tragedy.
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Along with his brothers, he was a strong football andcricketplayerduring his youth.
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He was a sprinter and a keencricketplayer, acting in school plays and writing poetry.
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Sandman is a starcricketplayer, and makes occasional earnings from playing games on commission.
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Siddhu delivers the letter and intimidates thecricketplayerinto agreeing to follow the instructions, breaking the player's bat in the process.
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Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word cricketer over the rarely used termcricketplayer.
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He was also a keencricketplayer.
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He was also a notedcricketplayer.
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He was also a topcricketplayer.
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About 20 years ago, the cricket authority abdicated its responsibility to young cricket players by producing wickets at county level that produced results.
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Cricket players are well recognized celebrities in the country.
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Tayler was an avid cricketer, and in 1905 produced a set of twelve watercolours of famous and mostly royal cricket players.
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They were in the attire of cricket players with the sports kit.
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Shah was a national football, national table tennis, andcricketplayer.
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Gamini was also an accomplishedcricketplayer.
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Khan was acricketplayer.
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