cricket match
2
1.5
- noun
- /ˈkrɪkɪt mætʃ/
:
partido de cricket
- Harry's got a cricket match.
- watch a cricket match
- international cricket match
- one-day cricket match
Examples
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After a thrilling cricket match, the players shook hands and congratulated each other.
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Then Friday came and life would be a torture because she didn't live near and your mother wouldn't allow you to visit, and besides, you had to do housework, and Saturday would crawl along with only an occasional cricket match to watch.
Fiction book (1995) -
Once, in London, he had been taken to see a cricket match.
Fiction book (2001) -
"What a day for the cricket match."
Fiction book (1990) -
Papa, will we still get to hear the cricket match?
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"Did you see the cricket match results downstairs?"
Blog text (18) -
We've been told there'll be a grudge cricket match between you two.
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"Archie's taken Hami and the dogs to the Buchanan-Wrights' cricket match."
Fiction book (1990) -
Old Calabar, the headquarters of the region, soon boasted official government buildings, clubs (Fig. 3), and even regular cricket matches.
Academic text (1997) -
Cool, sweet-scented air and flowers spilling over onto the sidewalks, houses pink in the early light, and the gravel path to the residential street and on into the park with the broad fields and the cricket matches on Saturdays.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
517
1.4
A game in which two teams or players compete
1
2.5
A match where two teams take turns to hit a ball and score runs
How Important
- UK
1
3.2
- UK
2
1.5
41
2.3
- US
12
3.3
2
2.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: a learner who knows 'cricket' (the sport) and 'match' (a contest) can immediately infer 'a game of cricket between teams.' This sport+match combination is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and follows regular English noun-noun/modifier semantics, so it is readily understandable at B1.
Etymology
Cricket match comes from the old meaning of the word match, which is 'a contest between two sides', so picture two teams paired and facing each other on the field. That's why a cricket match means 'a game of cricket played between two teams'.