cricket team

collocation in English

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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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team
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/tiːm/us
/tiːm/
a number of people or animals who do something together as ...
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(Definition ofcricketandteamfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thecricketteamhas not done well in the tests.
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It may make a lot of difference to a football orcricketteam.
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I do not agree with his conclusion about regional assemblies, but the remark about thecricketteamand the attitude is true.
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At one time its numbers were so swollen that it could almost have made up acricketteam.
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It is rather like acricketteamtrying to improve its batting averages by taking out the scores of all its bowlers.
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Could thecricketteamkeep chickens and rabbits on the cricket pitch?
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They have a second-ratecricketteamand a good football team.
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It also means that we are linked to a number of football clubs, and acricketteamalso operates there.
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That, of course, would benefit ourcricketteam, but it might not benefit us in other directions.
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I have been president of a villagecricketteamfor, it seems to me, a hundred years.
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It is a fabulouscricketteamto support.
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You can have acricketteamwhich needs twenty-two bats, eleven pairs of pads and eleven pairs of gloves.
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It has a real sense of community with a village school, shops, two or three pubs and acricketteam.
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Later he became a pillar of county society and captained the countycricketteam.
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We already have several in ourcricketteam.
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It may be an unpopularcricketteamtoday, it could be a minority political group or religious group tomorrow.
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One cannot keep one's place in thecricketteamin summer when one has to do that.
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For example, take acricketteam.
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All that one can say at this stage is that a couple of long stops in the whole of this rather largecricketteamare not very much.
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The commentator got it right who said that it was like acricketteamplaying only its eight best batsmen and then boasting of an increased batting average.
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