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# cricket

«cricket» in Mova's school dictionary: **a bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cricket — uncountable, the game; a cricket, crickets — the insect)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players on a large field with a pitch in the middle, where a bowler bowls to a batter who tries to score runs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#m1)

2) A cricket is a jumping insect, like a grasshopper, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In sport, cricket is very popular in England, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the West Indies; matches can last from a few hours to five days (Test matches); the Ashes is a famous series between England and Australia. Words: wicket, stumps, bails, over (six balls), runs, four, six, out, umpire. In maths, cricket scores and run rates make good problems. In science, crickets are insects with six legs; male crickets chirp, and they chirp faster when it is warmer. Phrases: «play cricket», «cricket bat», «cricket match», «it's not cricket» (old-fashioned British for «it's not fair»).

### examples

- We play cricket in the summer holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#x1)
- The bowler took three wickets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#x2)
- He hit the ball for six in the cricket match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#x3)
- An over in cricket has six balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#x4)
- The crickets chirped all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#x5)
- Crickets have long back legs for jumping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#x6)
- Australia and England play for the Ashes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#x7)
- We ate sandwiches at the cricket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#x8)
- “Keep still, you ugly Cricket!” cried Pinocchio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/#x9)

### note

The game is uncountable («play cricket», not «a cricket»); the insect is countable («two crickets»). A cricket insect has six legs, like all insects. In cricket, «a run» is a point, and «a six» means 6 runs scored by hitting the ball over the boundary.

### In the corpora

- [Cave crickets have very long legs and feelers because in the dark touch is more useful than sight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave/10/)
- [At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/0/)
- [A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fielders and goalies wear helmets and pads.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/249-cricket-rugby-basketball-and-hockey/20/)
- [In cricket the bowler must bowl, not throw: the elbow must not bend and straighten as the ball is let go.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules/13/)
- [In cricket an over is 6 balls bowled by one bowler.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/235-overs-holes-frames-and-halves/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cricket» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cricket/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.