to play cricket
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2.5
- phrasal verb
- UK
:
jugar al cricket
- And you play cricket?
- learn to play cricket
- kids play cricket
- boys play cricket
But I thought I'd retire, I thought I'd play cricket, I play golf and I go fishing.
- But I thought I'd retire, I thought I'd play cricket, I play golf and I go fishing.
- So the three boys in the family played cricket all day long whenever they it was possible.
- After I started school, the school played cricket and that was the thing I knew from back home.
- So I played football, my dad took me, my parents took me karate, I went to boxing club, we used to play cricket.
Examples
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We play cricket.
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Would you learn to play cricket?
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So I said lot of things will happen when you play cricket, people will appreciate.
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How do you even play cricket?
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On the street, eight or nine young boys played cricket.
Fiction book (1995) -
Why do people in India play cricket?
Blog text (21) -
Darling, please go and play cricket with Billy.
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I'm playing cricket this afternoon.
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He played cricket for his department at Dhaka University.
Blog text (30) -
Every Saturday, my friends and I play cricket in the park.
Synonyms
To play a team game with bat and ball where players score runs
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'play' (to participate in a game) combined with 'cricket' (the sport) yields 'take part in the sport of cricket.' This verb + sport pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows a standard English construction, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Play cricket comes from the simple picture of people using a bat and ball in open fields in England. To play meant to join a game and cricket was the name of that sport, so play cricket means 'to take part in the sport of cricket'.