game of cricket
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- noun
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partido de cricket
- During the summer, many children enjoy playing a friendly game of cricket after school.
- played a game of cricket
Examples
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Fans eagerly awaited the start of the important game of cricket between their national teams.
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They see all this as a game of cricket.
Fiction book (1994) -
Three times a week, the band plays for dancing on deck; tableaux, private theatricals, and fancy balls fill the evenings, and in the afternoons, the after-part of the ship is lively with games of cricket.
Blog text (22) -
The players gathered early to prepare for their next game of cricket at the local field.
Synonyms
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A team game with a bat and ball where two teams take turns batting to score runs
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A game of cricket played between two teams
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A long cricket game where national teams play over several days
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Morphology
The meaning 'a match of cricket' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'game' (a contest) with 'cricket' (the sport), with 'of' functioning as the standard linker. This straightforward noun-of-noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows basic English noun phrase patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun game of cricket names the sport where players use a wooden bat, a ball and three small sticks called stumps. The word cricket may come from an old word for a little stick, which helps you picture the wooden bat. So, a game of cricket means 'a match of cricket' today.