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Cricket

Definition: Cricket

Cricket

Noun

1. Leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together.

2. A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs.

Verb

1. Play cricket.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cricket" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Cricket

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Dream Interpretation

To hear a cricket in one's dream, indicates melancholy news, and perhaps the death of some distant friend.
To see them, indicates hard struggles with poverty. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Cricket
The diminutive of the Anglo-Saxon cric, a staff or crutch. In the Bodleian library is a MS. (1344) picture of a monk bowling a ball to another monk, who is about to strike it with a cric. In the field are other monks. There are no wickets, but the batsman stands before a hole, and the art of the game was either to get the ball into the hole, or to catch it.
Perhaps the earliest mention of the word "crickett" is 1593. John Derrick, gent., tells us when he attended the "free school of Guldeforde, he and his fellowes did runne and play there at crickett and other plaies." It was a Wykehamist game in the days of Elizabeth.
A single stump was placed in the seventeenth century at each hole to point out the place to bowlers and fielders. In 1700 two stumps were used 24 inches apart and 12 inches high, with long bails atop.
A middle stump was added by the Hambledon Club in 1775, and the height of the stumps was raised to 22 inches.
In 1814 they were made 26 inches, and in 1817 they were reduced to 22 inches the present height. The length of run is 22 yards.
The first cricket club was Hambledon, which practically broke up in 1791, but existed in name till 1825. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Cricket

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Cricket (insect)

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The cricket are insectss related to the grasshopper and katydid (order Orthoptera). They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. Crickets are known for the loud chirping noises they make by rubbing their corrugated wing casings against combs on their hind legs. The females have a long needlelike egg-laying organ (ovipositor).
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The true crickets constitute a family (Gryllidae) which contains the common or field crickets and in addition several other forms more or less different in appearance. Field crickets are brown or black; despite the name, some of them enter houses. Tree crickets are usually green with broad, transparent wings, and frequent trees and shrubs. Mole crickets are thick-bodied brown insects with forelimbs that are highly developed for burrowing.

In addition to these, several other orthopteran species are also called "crickets", although they are not crickets in the true meaning of the term:

See Orthoptera for more details on these and other families.

There are around 900 species known worldwide.

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Cricket (sport)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Cricket is a team sport that originated in the United Kingdom and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In many, it is the major summer sport.

Description of grounds and positions

The game is played between two competing teams of eleven players on each side, on a large expanse of (usually grassy), oval-shaped ground. There are no fixed dimensions for the grounds, but most international-standard grounds are considerably larger in area than a soccer pitch. The teams are usually comprised of players with a mixture of abilities, some who specialise in batting, some in bowling, occasionally some who excel in both capacities, and one highly specialist player who acts as 'wicket-keeper'. In the centre of the ground is a length of close-cut, heavily rolled grass, called the wicket or the pitch (some club cricket is played on wickets made from synthetic grass). At each end of the wicket are placed three sticks adjacent to each other in an upright position: these are the stumps. They are separated by a gap not greater than the diameter of a cricket ball. On top of each set of stumps are placed two smaller sticks, or bails, forming what is known as a set of stumps or a wicket (note, then, that there are two definitions of wicket!). The regulation distance between the sets of stumps is 22 yards. A chalk outline drawn on the pitch is called a crease. The crease in front of each set of stumps and is the popping crease. Another crease is drawn so that the stumps pass through it; this crease is the "bowling crease." Finally, a "return crease" is drawn on each side of the stumps along the sides of the pitch.

The game is refereed by two on-field umpiress who can at times refer decision to a third umpire who has the aid of television replays. See fielding positions in cricket.

Structure of a match

The length of games can vary in duration of time (most games last either one day or three to five days), and number of balls bowled. Batsmen play in pairs, each equipped with a bat, one at each end of the wicket. The team that scores the most runs wins the match.

The match is divided into innings. In each innings (the word is both the singular and plural) one team bats (this team is in, and it is their innings) and the other fields. The object for the batting side is to score the highest number of runs (points) before the fielding side have dismissed them. The object for the fielding side is to dismiss the batsmen for as low a score as possible. The batting side has two men in at once (this is the batting pair, one at each end of the wicket. To get the team all out, therefore, the fielding team needs to dismiss ten of them, the remaining player being called the not out.

Each innings is subdivided into overs, which consist of six balls (previously, when each country could decide the length of the over, overs varied in length from four to eight balls) bowled to one end of the wicket. At the end of an over, the fielding team must switch bowlers and bowl to the other end of the wicket, and hence to the other member of the batting pair.

A match may consist of one innings per team (typically in one-day or limited overs cricket) or two (as in county or international test-match cricket).

Dismissal of a batsman

Dismissal of the batsmen, also known as taking a wicket or getting the batsman out, can occur in a number of ways.

These are the main ways to be out, though a batsman may also be out in certain rarer manners: Finally a player may be "retired, not out" (more commonly known as "retired hurt") in which case he still has the option to return after treatment, though he would have to wait for a teammate to be given out. The umpire has discretion over whether to allow a batsman to retire hurt. If a batsman still intends to go off the field without the umpire's consent, he may do so, but, he is "retired, out," and cannot return to the field of play.

The bowler only "gets credit" for bowled, leg before wicket, caught, stumped, and hit wicket. But, if the ball is a no ball, then the batsman cannot be out in any of these ways, except stumped out. The batsman can, however, be out run out, handled the ball, hit the ball twice, obstructing the field, or timed out on any ball.

Scoring

"Runs" can be scored in a number of ways. The batsman gets credit for "runs scored off his bat." A batsman who scores 100 runs in an innings is said to have scored a century, a respectable achievement in cricket. Similarly, players can score double centuries, triple centuries, quadruple centuries (never achieved in test cricket), or quintuple centuries (only achieved once in first class cricket). The batsman gets credit for runs scored as follows:

Runs can be accrued through the failure of the bowler to correctly deliver the ball.

Laws of cricket

The laws of cricket are a set of rules framed by the Marylebone Cricket Club which serve to standardise the format of matches across the world to ensure uniformity and fairness.

Historically, they have always (since 1775) governed

They were first printed in book form in 1775. The laws have changed a lot since then but the basic form of the game remains the same.

Important Historical changes to the laws

1809

1829

1884

Today's laws

The Marylebone Cricket Club is the framer of the Laws of Cricket, the rules governing play of the game. The Laws are intended apply to all two innings matches; the International Cricket Council has implemented "Standard Playing Conditions for Test Matches" and "Standard Playing Conditions for One Day Internationals" to augment the Laws of Cricket. Similarly, each cricketing country has implemented Playing Conditions to govern domestic cricket. Note that the Laws do not provide for One Day or Limited Overs cricket; these modifications have been made by the Playing Conditions for One Day Internationals.

The Laws are organized into a Preface, a Preamble, forty-two Laws, and four appendices. The Preface relates to the Marylebone Cricket Club and the history of the Laws. The Preamble is a new addition and is related to "the Spirit of the Game;" it was introduced to discourage the increasing practices of ungentlemanly conduct. The Laws themselves deal with the following:

The four appendices to the laws are as follows:

Conduct

The sport of cricket requires gentlemanly conduct from all players. Under the ICC regulations, players may be a fined a percentage of the salary, banned for number of matches, or even banned for a number of years or life. The ICC appoints a Match Referee for each Test match and One-day International; the Referee has the power to set penalties for most offences, the exceptions being the more serious ones. The following are the general categories of serious offences, carrying the highest penalties:

Other offences are categorized as Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, or Level 4 as follows:

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

The penalties available for each offence are based on the level. The penalties are as follows: Fines in Level 3 and 4 Offences are determined by the ICC without regard to match fee. Also, offences relating to gambling or match-fixing carry penalties of bans from 12 months to life, and also unlimited fines. Note: If an offence occurred in a Test match, then the ban for a number of tests applies. If an offence occurred in an ODI, then the ban for a number of ODIs applies.

Forms of cricket

Test cricket

The format "Test cricket" -a form of international cricket- started in 1877 during the 1876/77 English cricket team's tour of Australia. The first test match began on 15th March, 1877 and had a timeless format with 4 balls per over. It ended on 19th March, 1877 with Australia winning by 45 runs.

Since then, over 1000 test matches have been played and the number of test match playing teams has increased to 10 with the 10th international team making its debut in 2000. Test matches are now played continuously over a period of 5 days with no rest day.

Balls per over in test cricket

Modern day test cricket (since 1979/80) has been played all over the world with six balls per over. However, test cricket started with 4 balls per over and has had varying number of balls per over around the world upto 1979/80.

Balls per over

In England

In Australia
In South Africa
In New Zealand
In Pakistan
In India, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and United Arab Emirates (venue, not host) all test matches were played with 6 ball overs.

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is just like Test cricket, but it takes place over three days or more. Tests are technically first-class, but the term is usually used to describe domestic matches. Domestic competitions take place between regional, city, county, or state teams.

One-day cricket

Due to the tiresomeness and growing unpopularity of five days of Test cricket, the experiment of one-day cricket was introduced. In one-day cricket, each team bats for only one innings, and it is limited to a number of overs, usually fifty in international matches. Since spectators did not need to commit five days of their time, due to innovations such as matches at night under floodlights, as well as the colored clothing (opposed to the somber white uniforms of Test cricketers), and finally because of the greater sense of urgency in the new form of the game, one-day cricket has gained many supporters supporters. Meanwhile, many traditionalists have objected that Test cricket involves more strategy and encompasses all the aspects of the game, while one-day cricket, by limiting the number of overs, puts an undue emphasis on the quick scoring of runs. One-day cricket is not classified as first-class.

List A cricket

List A cricket is to one-day cricket as first-class is to tests. Most cricketing nations have some form of domestic List A competition. The over limits range from forty to sixty. The categorization of "List A" is not one endorsed by the ICC; the Association of Cricket Historians and Statisticians created it for the purpose of providing a parallel to first-class cricket in their record books.

Club cricket

Club cricket is amateur, but still formal, cricket. The games are almost always Limited Overs, with each innings usually lasting between thirty and forty-five overs. Club cricket is played extensively in cricketing nations, and also by immigrants of cricketing nations. Club cricket often takes place on an artificial turf pitch, though the rest of actual field may be natural grass.

Beach cricket

"Beach cricket" is a term applied to all informal cricket, regardless of the actual location. The rules are often made up on the spot, and the subtle and complex laws of cricket, such as those involving Leg Before Wicket, penalty runs, and others, are ignored or modified.

Countries participating in international cricket

The Test (that is major international match) teams are, in order of receiving such status, Australia, England, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. One nation, Kenya, has "one-day international status." While Kenya still cannot play test cricket, it is, like the test nations, exempt from qualifying tournaments for the World Cup Additionally, the various cricket events include teams from Argentina, Canada, Chile, Hong Kong, Israel, Namibia, The Netherlands, Scotland, Singapore, and United States, although the game does not have a high profile in most of those countries.

Governance of cricket

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has always been the Framer of the Laws of Cricket. However, the International Cricket Council (ICC) regulates international cricket. Each cricketing nation also has a body that selects international teams for that country as well as governs domestic competition. The bodies in the test playing nations are:

The ICC appoints a Match Referee for each International match. The Match Referee has no power during the game; he is more of a disciplinary official. The Match Referee has the power to receive complaints from players, team officials, or umpires, hold hearings, fine players a percentage of the "match fee", or ban players for a limited number of matches. The Match Referee can also recommend a hearing by a higher panel, which can go as far as banning a player for life.

Structure of international cricket

General structure

International cricket has no fixed form or structure. However, it has always been traditional for the countries, without any interference from a body such as the ICC, to organize for themselves the various cricket matches. Most Test matches and One-Day series take place in the form of "tours." In a tour, one nation travels to another and plays warm-up matches, first-class matches against domestic teams such as county or state teams, a series of test matches against the host nation, and either a series of one-day matches against the host nation or a tournament involving the host nation and another touring nation. The "triangular tournament" format is often used when one tour is about to conclude and the other has just begun. In the tournament, the three teams play each other either two or three times. The two teams with the most points (usually two points for a win, one point for a no-result or tie, and no points for a loss) qualify for the one-game final.

The test series can last from one match (known as a "one-off match") to six matches. Six-match series are extremely rare. Most important series last five matches, while the less important ones last two to four matches. The length of the series is based on the home country's attitude towards the modern form of cricket, one-day internationals; traditional nations such as England and Australia usually organize five-match series, while one-day crazy nations such as India favour three-match series. At most, a perpetual trophy such as The Ashes (for England versus Australia) or the Frank Worrell Trophy (for Australia versus the West Indies) exists, with the trophy being awarded to the last team to win a series.

The One-day series lasts from three to seven matches. Usually, the shorter one-day series are played at the same time as longer test series. In addition to tours, nations may organize one-day matches at neutral venues. The Sahara Cup was a one-day series played annually between India and Pakistan in Toronto, until the Indian government ordered the suspension of most cricketing ties with Pakistan. Similarly, a semiannual Triangular Tournament was organized at Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates. The tournament almost always involved the traditional rivals India and Pakistan. However, the tournament has lost its luster due to the fact that the overwhelming number of cricket matches has spoiled the pitch. In contrast to the one-dayers, tests are never held in neutral venues. One notable recent exception occurred when Pakistan played some test matches in Sharjah; many other nations had decided to boycott Pakistani grounds due to violence, including bombings, that had occurred during a tour by the New Zealand cricket team.

In addition to the one-day series and tournaments organized by the nations themselves, the ICC organizes two tournaments. The World Cup is held every four years; it involves all the test playing nations, Kenya, and also a number of qualifying nations. The Champion's Trophy, also known as the ICC Knockout Cup, is held every four years in between World Cups. In the Champion's Trophy, a single loss eliminates a team from the tournament.

Test Championship

The ICC instituted the Test Championship table to permit fans to compare all the test teams. The Table is a running one, that is, whoever is on top at a certain time will formally hold the Test trophy. (The Table is not like a league standings table, where the top team at the end of a certain period of time becomes Champion.)

The calculations for the Table are performed as follows:

ODI Championship

The ODI championship was created for reasons similar to the Test one, and it has a similar structure. The championship does not replace the World Cup; the latter still carries much more significance to most cricket fans.

The calculations for the Table are performed as follows:

Structure of domestic cricket

In most nations, domestic cricket is more organized than international cricket. There are usually separate limited overs and first-class trophies. At some times, there may be more than one limited overs trophy. The teams are usually city, county, state, or other regional teams. However, at some times, "department teams," which are teams composed of employees of a certain institution, may play.

Cricket statistics

Cricket is a statistics-laden sport. The statistics of runs, no-balls, wide balls, byes, and leg byes are covered in the above section on the Structure of the Match and Scoring.

General statistics

Batting statistics

Bowling statistics

Famous cricketers

Writers and commentators

See also

External links

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Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics

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At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a cricket tournament was contested. Only two teams competed, and the French team was consisted of Britons living in Paris.

Cricket, Men

PosAthlete
1 Devon and Somerset Wanderers CC (GBR)
C.B.K. Beachcroft, John Symes, Frederick Cuming, Montagu Toller, Alfred Bowerman, Alfred Powlesland, William Donne, Frederick Christian, George Buckley, Francis Burchell, Harry Corner, Arthur Birkett
2France
T.H. Jordan, A.J. Schneidau, R. Horne, Henry Terry, F. Rogues, W. Anderson, D. Robinson, W.T. Attrill, W. Browning, Arthur McEvoy, Philip Tomalin, J. Braid

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics."

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Cricket, North Carolina

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Cricket is a town located in Wilkes County, North Carolina. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,053.

Geography


Cricket is located at 36°9'47" North, 81°10'59" West (36.162968, -81.183077)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 10.3 km² (4.0 mi²). 10.3 km² (4.0 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 2,053 people, 862 households, and 581 families residing in the town. The population density is 198.7/km² (514.7/mi²). There are 951 housing units at an average density of 92.0/km² (238.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 92.30% White, 0.34% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.10% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 6.87% from other races, and 0.24% from two or more races. 12.81% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 862 households out of which 25.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.6% are married couples living together, 9.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 32.5% are non-families. 28.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.38 and the average family size is 2.85. In the town the population is spread out with 19.6% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 24.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 104.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 107.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $27,017, and the median income for a family is $33,148. Males have a median income of $25,720 versus $16,822 for females. The per capita income for the town is $12,989. 13.4% of the population and 9.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 21.5% are under the age of 18 and 5.7% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cricket, North Carolina."

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Synonyms within Context: Cricket

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell.

Cheerfulness

Merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome; hilarious, rattling.

Horizontality

Plain, floor, platform, bowling green; cricket ground; croquet ground, croquet lawn; billiard table; terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cricket

English words defined with "cricket": a point, Acheta assimilis, Acris, Acris gryllus, As merry as a grig ♦ bat, bosie, bosie ball, bowler, bowling, Bowling crease ♦ Cherup, Churrworm, Cover-point, cricket ball, cricket bat, cricket equipment, cricket match, cricketer ♦ duck, duck's egg ♦ eastern cricket frog ♦ fan cricket, Fen cricket, field, field cricket, fielder, fieldsman, follow-on, Fritinancy ♦ genus Acris, googly, Grig ♦ hat trick, House cricket ♦ innings ♦ Locustella ♦ mid-off, mid-on ♦ no ball ♦ Oecanthus fultoni, outfielder ♦ Return crease ♦ snick, snowy tree cricket ♦ To bowl, To mark, tree cricket ♦ White cricket, wicket, Wood cricket, wrong 'un. (references)
Specialty definitions using "cricket": Butter-fingers ♦ Daisy-cutter ♦ Leg-bye ♦ Merry as a Cricket ♦ Wet-bob, WINTER CRICKET. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Cricket" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (cricket), Italian (cricket), Spanish (cricket), Swedish (cricket).

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Modern Usage: Cricket

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I don't care if he is a fat bastard, Felicity, you don't kick a man in the pillsit's just not cricket! (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Cricket? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Lyrics

I see my noisy cricket get wicked on ya ("Men in Black"; performing artist: Will Smith)

Movie/TV Titles

The Cricket in Times Square (1973)

A Very Merry Cricket (1973)

Did You Ever Hear That Cricket Sound? (1971)

Davey Cricket (1965)

French Cricket (1964)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cricket

DomainTitle

Books

  • Christmas Cricket (reference)

  • Cricket's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary But True Stories from 150 Years of Cricket (reference)

  • Have You Heard the Cricket Song (reference)

  • The Cricket on the Hearth and Other Christmas Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (reference)

  • The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cricket

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Photo Album: Cricket

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Engraving from Porter's "History of the Civil War", page 522, depicting USS Cricket (1863-1865) engaged in a running battle with Confederate troops and artillery along the Red River on 26 April 1864. Cricket was flagship of Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter during this action. Credit: NAVY.

Paymaster C.K.T. Wheen, paymaster of the H.M.S. Danae, and British Embassy employee, J.M. Branch, playing cricket at Potomac Park Polo Grounds, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

The cricket match played at Hoboken on October 3-6, 1859, between the All England Eleven and the United States Twenty-Two A baseball match at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rancher cleaning a cricket trap. Big Horn County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Placing poison in the cricket traps. Big Horn County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mormon crickets swarming behind a cricket fence. Big Horn County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cricket fence barricades a road. Big Horn County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cricket game, Newport. Credit: Library of Congress.

The cricket match / Eugene Tily. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Cricket
 

"Dead cricket" by Mike Rose
Commentary: "I found this dead cricket on the floor, I took a picture of it and then gave it a proper burial. ."		"Cricket" by Jason Krieger
Commentary: "A macro of a cricket by my girlfriends door."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Cricket".

PlayCaption
Cricket chirping.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cricket

SubjectTopicQuote

Travel

Australia

Sports of all types are well-supported, in particular, the four football codes (Australian rules football, rugby league, rugby union and soccer) and cricket. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cricket

"Cricket" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.23% of the time. "Cricket" is used about 2,954 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)97.23%2,8723,237
Noun (proper)2.47%7339,105
Noun (common)0.3%9117,287
                    Total100.00%2,954N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Cricket


1. Cricket, NC (CDP, FIPS 15440)
Location: 36.16626 N, 81.19141 W
Population (1990): 2015 (903 housing units)
Area: 10.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Expressions: Cricket

Expressions using "cricket": Balm cricket ♦ bat the ball out of the cricket ground ♦ be as lively as cricket ♦ cricket ball ♦ cricket bat ♦ Cricket bird ♦ cricket equipment ♦ Cricket frog ♦ cricket ground ♦ cricket match ♦ cricket teal ♦ eastern cricket frog ♦ european house cricket ♦ fan cricket ♦ female cricket ♦ Fen cricket ♦ field cricket ♦ House cricket ♦ it is not cricket ♦ Jerusalem cricket ♦ mole cricket ♦ mormon cricket ♦ noise of cricket ♦ northern cricket frog ♦ sand cricket ♦ snowy tree cricket ♦ that's not cricket ♦ tree cricket ♦ white cricket ♦ wood cricket. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "cricket": cricket-based, cricket-bat, cricket-bat willow, cricket-bats, cricket-care, cricket-clubs, cricket-crazy, cricket-ground, cricket-like, cricket-loud, cricket-lover, cricket-lovers, cricket-loving, cricket-mad, cricket-playing, cricket-related, cricket-watchers, cricket-writer, cricket-writers, cricket-writing.

Ending with "cricket": anti-cricket, balm-cricket, ca-cricket, fen-cricket, Kwik-cricket, mole-cricket, non-cricket, table-cricket.

Containing "cricket": non-cricket-loving.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cricket

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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7,636

cricket cellular phone

139

cricket phone

1,511

jiminy cricket

120

cricket wireless

1,414

2002 cricket

111

cricket cell phone

842

cricket phone service

111

cricket communication

663

cricket betting

107

cricket pavilion

628

pakistan cricket

95

west indies cricket

606

play cricket

92

cricket mormon

537

mole cricket

92

cricket cellular

306

cricket picture

89

cricket live

287

jerusalem cricket

89

cricket game

266

cricket wireless phone

88

board cricket indies west

199

cricket morman

86

cricket bat

177

cricket cell

85

rule of cricket

172

live cricket score

81

world cup cricket

168

cricket comfortable wireless

76

bbc cricket

167

cricket messaging text

72

cricket score

158

cricket info

70

cricket ringtone

154

equipment used for cricket

69

cricket magazine

150

camel cricket

68

cricket news

141

cricket insect

62
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cricket

Language Translations for "cricket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

besie. (various references)

   

Albanian

  

kriket, fron (heel, king power, pew, stalk, stem, stool, throne), bulkth. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كريكيت, ‏مسلك نبيل, ‏لعبة الكرة والمضرب, ‏صرصار الليل. (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

tapikáíimii. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

щурец (grig), табуретка (pouf, stool, tabouret), крикет. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

蟀 , 蟋蟀 , 蟋 , 蝼, 蛐 . (various references)

   

Cornish

  

crýgell. (various references)

   

Czech

  

kriket (criket). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kriek (sweet cherry), krekel (egocentric effeminate child). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

grilo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

veggjasmiður. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یکجورگوی بازی , زنجره . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sirkka (Sirkka), kriketti. (various references)

   

French

  

grillon. (various references)

   

German

  

Heimchen (egocentric effeminate child), Kricket, grille (freak, maggot, silly idea). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τριζόνι, κρίκετ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קריקט, צרצר (cicada). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

krikett. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

jangkrik (handspring), belalang (grasshopper, locust). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cricket, correttezza (correctness, fair play, fairness, honesty, propriety), grillo (fancy, whim). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

蟋蟀 (grasshopper, katydid), 鈴虫 , クリーム色 (Christian, Christian Dior, Christian name, Christian Science Monitor, Christiania, Christmas, Christmas cake, Christmas card, Christmas carol, Christmas concert, Christmas Eve, Christmas present, Christmas tree, clean, clean energy, clean float, clean heater, clean hit, clean rice, clean room, clean up, cleanup trio, clear, clear lacquer, clearance, clearance sale, cleaver, click, clinic, clinometer, clip, clipper, clipping, clitoris, cream, create, creation, creative, creative agency, creative group, creativity, creator, creole, crinoline, critic, critical, criticism, critique, crystal, crystal glass, EDTV, Extended Definition Television, Kripke, Kristiania, vented heater). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すずむし, きりぎりす (grasshopper, katydid), こおろぎ (grasshopper, katydid), クリケット . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

귀뚜라미. (various references)

   

Manx

  

griaran (field cricket), criggad. (various references)

   

Maori

  

kirikiti. (various references)

   

Maya

  

koochol. (various references)

   

Mohawk

  

taraktarak. (various references)

   

Papago

  

chukugshuad. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

icketcray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

grilo (grig, hang-up). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

crichet, comportare frumoasã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сверчок;крикет, сверчок, крикет. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

cvrčak (chirruper, cicada, grig), zrikavac (chirruper, grig), popac (chirruper, grig), kriket (croquet). (various references)

   

Shona

  

wishuwishu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

grillo (cicada). (various references)

   

Swazi

  

í-nyekévu. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

syrsa. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cırcırböceği, kriket (ashes). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

цвіркун (grig), крикет, грати в крикет. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

criced. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cricket

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

urun. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

ophiomachus. (various references)

Old French900-1400

criquet. (various references)

Middle Dutch1100-1500

cricke. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cricket

Derivations

Words beginning with "cricket": cricketed, cricketer, cricketers, cricketing, crickets. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cricket" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brickert, Carricke, chickita, Cirkit, Clicket, clickety, cracken, cracket, crficket, crickette, Crickey, crike, Errichett, Kricka, Ricket, rickett. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cricket"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "cricket" (pronounced kri"kut)
4-i" k u tpicket, thicket, ticket, wicket.
3-k u taftermarket, advocate, affricate, basket, Becket, biscuit, blanket, breadbasket, brisket, bucket, casket, certificate, circuit, hypermarket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, gasket, indelicate, intricate, jacket, junket, market, microcircuit, musket, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, upmarket, wastebasket.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Cricket

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-k-r-t"

-1 letter: cretic, ticker.

-2 letters: cerci, ceric, citer, crick, icker, kiter, recti, trice, trick, trike.

-3 letters: cire, cite, etic, keir, kier, kite, reck, rice, rick, rite, tick, tier, tike, tire, trek.

-4 letters: ice, ick, ire, irk, kir, kit, rec, rei, ret, tic, tie.

-5 letters: er, et, it, re, ti.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-k-r-t"
 

+1 letter: crickets.

 

+2 letters: cricketed, cricketer.

 

+3 letters: cockatrice, crackliest, cricketers, cricketing.

 

+4 letters: cockatrices.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Sounds 		9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Cities
12. Expressions 		13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Derivations 		17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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