noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tennis/cricket/golf/rugby etc ball
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She was practising hitting golf balls.
England and Wales Cricket Board, the
football/cricket/rugby etc pitch
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the world-famous Wembley football pitch
the football/cricket etc season
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The football season will be starting soon.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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It turned out to be a fascinating insight into the way in which the best cricket team in the world prepared themselves.
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The one best cricket bat of his youth was becoming the one best Midvale.
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The team is being coached by Rachel Heyhoe Flint, one of the best female cricket players in the country.
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If the people of Antigua had not seen the victory they wanted, they had at least enjoyed some good fighting cricket .
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The school was very good at cricket , Ramsey was not.
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He was not a good fielder at cricket .
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Good-natured critics in the dressing-room wink and ask him why he saves all his best cricket for New Zealand.
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The Oval was a good cricket wicket despite the stories that it was being prepared for Laker and Lock.
international
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This was Trescothick's first failure in international cricket in his seven outings, so let's not carp too much.
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He will certainly need to be well prepared for the task which faces him, with international cricket politics becoming increasingly complex.
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However, this began to trail off towards the end of June due to outside distractions - Wimbledon tennis and International cricket .
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Gatting and his former colleagues will be eligible to play international cricket again from Oct 1.
local
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It was the same with our local village cricket team.
■ NOUN
ball
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Now the hard leather cricket ball had inflamed this old injury.
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Can his death really be blamed on a cricket ball ?
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Winston Churchill, with extraordinary perspicacity, wrote at the time: Meeting an artillery attack is like catching a cricket ball .
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Meeting an artillery attack is like catching a cricket ball .
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There were no houses, no people, no hills, and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball .
bat
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Taking a cricket bat to the audition isn't a bad idea although you can get the same effect with an umbrella.
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The one best cricket bat of his youth was becoming the one best Midvale.
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Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years.
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The following Summer in London, while shopping for a cricket bat , his journal fills with prices and estimates of quality.
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Opposite: The cricket bat was made by John Wisden &038; Co.
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Peters &038; Son, a store carrying ship models and archery equipment along with cricket bats , particularly draws his attention.
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Suddenly I was jumping, yelling out as the flagstone beat my feet like a cudgel or stone cricket bat .
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In the event, Hilary rummaged around in the gym and found a cricket bat and ball.
captain
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He was a former cricket captain of the Royal Bangkok Sports Club.
club
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Five years ago rugby club chiefs were in favour of selling but the cricket club committee was firmly against.
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Glenn Ferguson - staying put A new era is dawning at Strabane cricket club .
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Nobody could ever have thought that joining a cricket club was like opening a Sunday paper colour supplement.
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Home was suddenly less inviting than the cricket club .
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During 1915 many Dunedin cricket clubs had to withdraw teams as so many players were enlisting.
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He had a white panama hat with the colours of the Southsea cricket club on the hat band.
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An informal group formed this week has been mobilising the support of cricket clubs throughout the island to stay away from the game.
committee
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They desperately need a top-class fast bowler and ordered their cricket committee to come up with a suitable candidate.
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Benjamin had powerful backing in the Yorkshire cricket committee .
county
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Graveney feels that in county cricket there is not the same class of speed attack as is found in Test cricket.
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A part of the difficulty in leaving county cricket lies in its consuming characteristic.
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Essex are the county cricket champions.
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Viv Richards: no more county cricket ?
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Cricket was even less open to the winds of free competition. County cricket made little concession to spectators.
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And here, along with many others, he is highly critical of the structure of county cricket .
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Nearby is the county cricket ground.
fan
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But he is a keen cricket fan .
field
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There have been a few uneasy ripples around the cricket fields of Glamorgan this season, of course.
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Time allowed 00:08 Read in studio Gloucestershire are continuing to struggle on the cricket field .
ground
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All we saw was the inside of the hotel and the inside of a cricket ground .
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Developers Foinavon have slapped in a £5m bid for first-class cricket ground Acklam Park in Middlesbrough.
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Nearby is the county cricket ground .
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Seemed to be on kissing terms with half the chaps in the cricket ground , when we got there.
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He leased a field in the area and turned it into a cricket ground .
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It's within reach of the cricket ground at Taunton.
match
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One man had taken photographs in the churchyard ... and at that cricket match when Flyte had been scoring.
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Let Lopwitz watch all the cricket matches he wants to!
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Looking down, Branson could see a cricket match in progress in the grounds.
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He is at the cricket match today?
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There his spot was to organize a Tonbridge v Clifton cricket match , news of which hit the national press.
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Tomorrow, which was a Saturday, David was going to a cricket match at Luke's school.
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He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match .
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First a cricket match with a murder at the end of it, then having to face Mama.
pitch
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The garden will double as go-kart track, cricket pitch , tennis court.
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He looked as if he had just walked off the cricket pitch .
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In abeyance at the moment is a cricket pitch .
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There is a playing field with equipment for the younger members of the community, and a football and cricket pitch .
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There is a cricket pitch in a village green setting and small zoo for the children.
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The new building will serve the existing football and cricket pitches , tennis court and bowling green.
season
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Lord Beresford was disposed to chat about the forthcoming cricket season , but was briskly recalled to his duties.
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Admittedly it was only March, but the cricket season could never come too early for Hilary.
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Dora Westbourne was a catch in one way, but in the cricket season a decided liability.
team
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Philippa had once been captain of Cheltenham Ladies' College cricket team .
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It turned out to be a fascinating insight into the way in which the best cricket team in the world prepared themselves.
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Read in studio Voice over Kevin Maxwell has caused a stir by turning out for his village cricket team .
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He is opening bat in his school's cricket team and is Bedfordshire Schools' table tennis champion.
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I had been thrown off the cricket team at school for making daisy chains on the boundary.
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Diane Mynors saved us from oblivion by playing in the Oxford Women's first eleven cricket team which defeated Cambridge.
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It was the same with our local village cricket team .
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Perhaps, thought Robert, Mr Mafouz had bought his son into an unassailable position on the cricket team .
test
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Lord's celebrated its centenary of Test cricket and produced a match worthy of the occasion.
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When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said.
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It was a great advertisement for Test cricket , with the instant variety of the World Cup just around the corner.
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We spent beyond our means when I was playing Test cricket before and earning good money.
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From 92 for 9 to 209 for 9 represented one of the oddest innings in Test cricket .
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He expects the jump from county to Test cricket to be another step up in terms of bowling and concentration.
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It revealed their inexperience, captain Wessels admitted, and showed them that standards in Test cricket were very high.
world
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However, the shadow of war was beginning to cloud the cricket world .
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The cricket world cup is an absolute must.
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Still only 22, Ramprakash has the cricket world at his feet.
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This week's, though, is one of my favourites - the cricket World Cup.
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For one thing, it's cricket World Cup.
■ VERB
enjoy
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He is married with three children and enjoys gardening and cricket .
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Now he's enjoying his cricket .
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Outside politics, he enjoys opera, cricket and real ale.
play
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Not only has Malvern College gone co-educational, but the girls are actually being allowed to play cricket .
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Boys in bare feet are playing cricket in the grounds of the university.
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We spent beyond our means when I was playing Test cricket before and earning good money.
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There was time for one innings only if you were playing cricket .
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Mr. Scott I play cricket with the hon. Gentleman, and I know that he understands the laws of that game.
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When he played cricket at school, he opened the bowing and the batting.
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I remember occasionally, very occasionally, he used to play cricket with me on the lawn.
watch
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Now Martin is looking forward to spending his retirement enjoying outside interests which will include travelling, walking and watching cricket .
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Let Lopwitz watch all the cricket matches he wants to!
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That explains why for six months in a year we watch cricket and for the next six talk about it.
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Everybody who is watching that particular channel at that particular time has tuned in to watch the cricket .
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There are two ways of watching cricket on television.
win
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Grayshott quiz double Grayshott Youth made it a club double when they won the junior inter-club cricket quiz on Tuesday night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After retiring, he became a radio commentator on cricket and rugby and also wrote about both sports for Sunday newspapers.
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At the reception, to entertain the bridesmaids, I ate a black cricket the size of my thumb.
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He gets his first taste of inter-pro cricket .
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In 1937 county cricket was estimated to have lost £30,000.
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It is a hum like the sound of crickets in the summer, a sound urging men to joy and mirth.
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Outside, the crickets chirped monotonously, with a Webern-like inconsistency yet precision of rhythm.
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Think of five-day cricket on television.
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We spent beyond our means when I was playing Test cricket before and earning good money.