Definition of Cricket

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Cricket

An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

A low stool.

A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.

To play at cricket.

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Cricket Quotations

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Robin Williams

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
Sachin Tendulkar

But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
Sachin Tendulkar

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
Sachin Tendulkar

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.
Sachin Tendulkar

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
Sachin Tendulkar

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
Sachin Tendulkar

Cricket Translations

cricket in Dutch is krekel, kriek
cricket in German is Heimchen, Kricket
cricket in Portuguese is grilo
cricket in Spanish is grillo
cricket in Swedish is cricket, syrsa

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