How To Use Cricketer In A Sentence
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Deep down, this great patriot and cricketer has taken no pleasure from one humiliation after another.
Times, Sunday Times
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Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934.
Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
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Animals need to adapt their bodies to survive and prosper in extreme conditions, as do cricketers their skills.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cricketers will be shown a red card for serious incidents under new laws expected to come into force next year.
Times, Sunday Times
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South African cricketers had better get used to being dope tested once the United Cricket Board of South Africa introduces its anti-doping policy at its annual meeting in August.
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Wisden owned a sporting goods and tobacconist shop in London's Leicester Square and in 1864 he brought out the first edition of his cricketers' almanac, which has been published every year since.
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Cricketers used to retire and then go and earn serious money.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was sometimes playing against former test cricketers.
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He was 32, at his peak as a cricketer, but life then brought him a series of disappointments.
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Shouts of "Howzat!" resounded across a Beijing football pitch as Chinas cricketers battled yesterday for victory in the first final of the National Cricket Tournament.
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He looks too insubstantial to be a serious cricketer.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would willingly unburden the clubs of a major share of financial responsibility to England's elite and pay the players itself through central contracting, just as England does with its top cricketers.
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None of this constitutes the end of my career as an international cricketer.
Times, Sunday Times
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At a one-to-one with a panel of cricketers on Sunday, the boys shot some questions which the professionals had a hard time answering.
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Not since Clay was stripped of his world title for conscientiously objecting to serving in Vietnam has a sportsman suffered as grave an injustice as this cricketer.
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The trouble is, it is his larger-than-life character that helps make him the compelling cricketer he is.
The Sun
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His batting probably mirrors his personality more than for most cricketers.
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The boys here are the pick of the under-15 cricketers in the country.
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Graveney, a man who knows a little about picking international cricketers after his 11 years as chairman of the selectors, witnessed what he calls "an extraordinary performance with both bat and ball" against Hampshire at the start of the month, in which Stokes scored a boisterous 135 not out and took six wickets with his skiddy medium pace.
New kids on the block stake their claim for England Test place
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With the introduction of the Internet, electronic and computer games, etc, we have seen a reduction in the relative time spent by budding West Indian cricketers on the cricket field.
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Yeadon have been grateful for a number of part-time cricketers helping them out in their hour of need.
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It’s also true that to write about cricket in this country is no longer to surrender automatically to the hegemony of American culture; until quite recently, the word cricketer, when typed into my computer, would be underscored by a squiggly red line.
Bowling Alone
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Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long.
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Just reserved a load of tee times tomorrow for the England cricketers and commentary team!
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a serious cricketer and table tennis player, and in his youth a formidable oarsman.
Times, Sunday Times
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But till 1862 such a delivery was reckoned as illegal; in fact, Edgar Willsher of Kent was the first cricketer to be no-balled for bowling overarm in 1862.
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He is chasing himself in pursuit of a glory that has eluded thousands of cricketers who have played this game.
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Cricketers around the country know all about his prowess, although Ricky Ponting could be excused for having hardly heard of him.
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He was a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers.
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You want to handle it, try a few casts with it, in the way that a golfer wants to swing a new club or a cricketer feels the weight of a bat.
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He looks too insubstantial to be a serious cricketer.
Times, Sunday Times
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An avid cricketer when young, he has now turned his attention to polo.
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June 6th, 2009 BRISBANE - Cricketer Andrew Symonds returned to Brisbane on Saturday and admitted he needed time to consider what he was going to do about his playing future.
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Stalwart cricketer and former president of Glusburn cricket club has died aged 80, after a short illness.
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This Delhi cricketer can so easily make a difference in a key game, wading into the bowling with effortless ease.
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He was also a Lancashire athletics sprint champion and a more than adequate club cricketer.
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However, well-known Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will be carrying the Olympic torch writesenga. areaand adds:
India: Tibet, the Olympic Torch and the Dalai Lama
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Cricketers cannot defend in numbers, play offside.
Times, Sunday Times
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A dispute between the former cricketer and the society plumbed new depths in a row over the mysterious disappearance of three rare hen harriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a very successful county cricketer.
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That history master happened also to be a County cricketer and a notable rugger player, so his remarks were discounted by the swots in the back row as the sort of thing he would say, wouldn't he?
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My dad was a very fine cricketer, good enough to turn professional.
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He is a keen cricketer and also plays five-a-side football.
Times, Sunday Times
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He probably accepts that the ultimate accolade for the county cricketer will now remain inaccessible.
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He inflicted pain on us as few cricketers have and yet we have caused him untold suffering.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cricketers cannot defend in numbers, play offside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their desire and hunger to become international cricketers is second to none.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bowling action commonly sees cricketers put up to 10 times their body weight through the joints below the waist.
Times, Sunday Times
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They surely can't field like village green cricketers again - and I apologise now if that offends the weekend players who would have pouched five of the six dropped chances with their eyes shut.
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Even the tinies of them looked every centimetre a ‘cricketer’ with all the trappings befitting a test player.
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The phenomenal level of concentration required by top level cricketers is something that impresses me no end.
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It was a rather cramped affair, too, since a horde of schoolboy cricketers had found their way in.
Times, Sunday Times
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A simple man, Ramesh does not grudge cricketers getting all mileage.
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A popular Hampshire club cricketer died after crashing his car while double the drink-drive limit following a night out with friends.
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So where are all the future Test cricketers going to come from?
Times, Sunday Times
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It took Indian fans and cricketers several years and a few important victories to exorcise this ghost from our minds.
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Jamaica's U - 19 cricketers are off to Kami's home turf to win both titles in the regional competition.
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A dispute between the former cricketer and the society plumbed new depths in a row over the mysterious disappearance of three rare hen harriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cricketer himself seems intent on something earlier; back on the ball by June.
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He was a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers.
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I mean for a professional cricketer to slide his foot way back in line with his stumps and then rake across them there's something either very unco or very illicit going on.
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The life of a professional cricketer is tough.
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[80] Afterwards, as George Knight, a well-known Kent cricketer, and one of the principal agents in the introduction of round-arm bowling.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
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It seems impertinent to talk of successors while such a great cricketer is still in harness.
Times, Sunday Times
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We supplement them with high-quality cricketers to build the team around who help the youngsters to fulfil their potential.
Times, Sunday Times
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A many-sided character, he wrote poetry and was a keen cricketer and cook.
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The first two were important in providing Australians with a sense of pride in the progress of the colonies, measured by the success of cricketers and scullers in international competition.
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A cricketer is a role model for the number of cricket fans.
CRICKET-GAME OF NAME AND FAME
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Majid, a cricket buff, is reckoned to be a good cricketer who has all the talent to represent the state in interstate championships.
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Australia's cricketers, we say, love their sledging, as if it's a quality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another fragrant leaf from my diary, that was, and my only regret for Emperor Max was that he'd been a fairish cricketer for a novice, and might have made a half-decent batter, if he'd lived. '
Watershed
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A Sussex country churchyard in October: the leaves on the trees are turning golden, in the distant Wealden valley autumnal mist is beginning to rise, crows are cawing overhead, sheep are bleating in a nearby field and I am standing in front of the dilapidated grave of one of England's greatest cricketers.
Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave
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He dreams of becoming a cricketer.
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I get enjoyment from playing alongside lads who are trying to become professional cricketers.
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This was due partly to her hats and partly to her remarkable prowess as a lady cricketer.
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The individuals who wish to cheer for India can sign on the card with ‘inspiring’ messages that would be presented to Indian cricketers before they emplane for South Africa.
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DOES not shape up like a Test cricketer.
The Sun
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It is therefore odd to watch him waver and wobble over an issue that is not only outrageously unjust to Indian cricketers, but also flagrantly illegal.
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Australia's leader is a very great cricketer indeed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fact remains that sportsmen and alcohol are hardly strangers in the night, and most of the game's mythical booze-ups have involved Australian cricketers.
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Although this is supposed to be the off season for our leading cricketers, some of them are playing county cricket in England.
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It is unfair to expect a former cricketer to understand the nuances of a legal hearing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through photos of cricketers such as Viv Richards, Paul Adams and Basil D'Oliveira, this exhibition celebrates players who broke through racial boundaries using their skills on the cricket field.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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I may not be entirely serious here, and the Old Cricketer's writing style can boom and parp after a while, but one thing is heartfelt.
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He is, without doubt, England's cricketer of the year and I expect Wisden will ratify this come the spring when it the venerable almanack selects its Five Cricketers of the Year.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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Wes Hall was once one of the West Indies' great cricketers.
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When you started your career as a first class cricketer in India, you were a lively fast medium bowler who loved banging the ball in short.
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His innings confirmed that he belonged as a Test cricketer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unable to grab a piece of paper, some stretched their palms for the cricketer to scrawl his signature across it.
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And given the passion for the game on the subcontinent, it was the Indian government’s willingness to let the cricketers tour Pakistan that convinced Pakistanis that Delhi’s apparent conciliatoriness was sincere.
Sometimes, it is not just cricket
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That victory also catapulted India's cricketers from mere stars to major celebrities.
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Patrick Riviere/Getty Images Indian singer Asha Bhosle recorded an album called "Asha and friends" with Australian cricketer Brett Lee and several Bollywood stars in 2006.
Indian Music's Global Fusion
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Their desire and hunger to become international cricketers is second to none.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their desire and hunger to become international cricketers is second to none.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most searching examination of a cricketer's skills deserves the biggest rewards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like true cricketers, we abided by the decision of the match referee.
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The bowling action commonly sees cricketers put up to 10 times their body weight through the joints below the waist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just like an Australian cricketer should be, he is all about effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many cricketers turn to golf once their playing days are over because of certain similarities between the two sports.
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If he is more than a splendid young cricketer, this extra stuff is to be found in our own desire for heroes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers.
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Once the formal felicitations were over children eager for autographs surrounded the cricketer who patiently obliged them all.
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With young cricketers we are only now just back to where we were before.
Times, Sunday Times
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From 175 out of 450 county cricketers in 1949 the number of amateurs fell to 72 out of 370 in 1961.
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It also allows visiting cricketers to participate in friendly games.
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He has the making of a perfect cricketer - solid batsman, outstanding fielder and a handy bowler.
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The former England cricketer rolled his car at a hairpin near the end of the first stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is up to us as coaching staff to mould that promise into good, sustainable Test cricketers.
Times, Sunday Times
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In any passable representation of the Greek discobolus, as in any passable representation of an English cricketer, there can be no successful evasion of the natural difficulties of the thing to be done -- the difficulties of competing with nature itself, or its maker, in that marvellous combination of motion and rest, of inward mechanism with the so smoothly finished surface and outline -- finished ad unguem -- which enfold it.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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It will not be easy, which places even greater emphasis on the world's best cricketer.
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The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates.
Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot
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It is the stuff of boyhood dreams for any young Australian cricketer.
Times, Sunday Times
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In England, blind cricketers bowl overarm and with a slightly bigger ball about the size of a size 3 football.
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So you see ace cricketers and glamorous movie stars exhorting you to buy such and such product because it improves their smile or turns their skin to dewy softness or whatever.
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Masters, the 33-year-old Essex seamer, is in many ways the archetypal journeyman cricketer but here he seized the advantage of a helpful pitch and a dispirited opposition to claim the outrageous figures of eight for 10 as Leicestershire were brushed aside for 34 in 88 balls.
Essex v Leicestershire | County Championship match report
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Bracewell believes that Lee could become the first cricketer to be taken to court for bowling a beamer following a recent incident that occurred in rugby league.
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We all make mistakes and if people in everyday life were to take as serious a view of our errors as young cricketers do of umpires' decisions I am afraid we should be somewhat unhappily situated.
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He was a serious cricketer and table tennis player, and in his youth a formidable oarsman.
Times, Sunday Times
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What are a young cricketer's needs?
Times, Sunday Times
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Three months ago he returned from Australia and then the World Cup a downcast cricketer.
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But for one night only, alone in their galleried banquet hall and unaccompanied by overseas or domestic interlopers apart from poor old Amla, who had flown in specially England's cricketers really did look a team apart.
England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards
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He is a busy, resourceful cricketer who is not short of self-belief and must be maddening to bowl to.
The Sun
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As he is definitely among the top three cricketers India has ever produced, he will command the respect of the boys straightaway.
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If he is more than a splendid young cricketer, this extra stuff is to be found in our own desire for heroes.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am excessively, and, perhaps, stupidly, proud of the fact that there is not a whiff of scandal about the name of any cricketer from Bangalore.
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Cricketers will be shown a red card for serious incidents under new laws expected to come into force next year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three cricketers have also been taken in custody.
Times, Sunday Times
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With more attention and focus to his bowling he could become a truly formidable international cricketer, secure in the knowledge that he has more to offer than just the slog.
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One's main anxiety is that neither of this year's sporting contestants are cricketers.
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After all that and an ice cream, I headed back to the park for another three hours of revision, this time distracted by snogging teenagers, toddlers toddling and cricketers practising in the nets.
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Cricketers and the outlets' Managing Directors attended the inauguration of the Mega Fun Cricket Tournament.
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We all have different opinions on how to play and who we think are international cricketers.
The Sun
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AN English cricketer appeared in court yesterday over match-fixing allegations.
The Sun
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As a team over the past couple of months we have not reached the standards expected of us as Australian cricketers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only test of a cricketer is the Test match because his talent and technique is tested," said Imran, the first Pakistani to deliver a lecture named after former England captain Colin Cowdrey.
Top Headlines
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He was also one of a tiny group of Australian Test cricketers who went into politics.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a New Zealand cricketer who bowls right-hand fast-medium.
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The respect given to me by every cricketer I've come across, some of them the real greats, means more to me than anything else.
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Jonathan Trott's triumph in the main award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for Cricketer of the Year, which he won ahead of the favourite Hashim Amla, was perhaps less widely expected but still richly deserved for a player who has thrived in Test and one-day cricket, and whose ever-engorging bubble has yet to pop.
England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards
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April 3rd, 2010 HYDERABAD - Nearly two weeks before his marriage with Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik arrived here reportedly to clear the air over his alleged first marriage with a Hyderabad resident Ayesha Siddiqui.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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Now one thing that our cricketers have been criticised for in recent times is their reputation as big-time sledgers.
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He was no such prodigy as a cricketer, but made the Warwickshire side as an attacking bat and top-class fielder.
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It gives them a motivation to become a national cap and an international Test cricketer.
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I've really sensed it this summer, it's getting warmer and for me, as a person and a cricketer, that is the thing I really wanted, because it's what you work so hard for.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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It is a selection that will confirm to young cricketers how important it can be to have more than one string to the bow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whisper it, but some players on the circuit are even less fit than your average county cricketer.
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I find it sad when people boo a great cricketer going out to bat for his country.
Times, Sunday Times
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This genial cricketer has also shown that a batsman does not have to really belt the ball to emerge a match-winner.
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They can be seen serving the guests dressed in white flannels, the same as cricketers wear.
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Shane Warne home amid media storm over Liz Hurley 'pash' FORMER Australian cricketer Shane
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It always takes you slightly aback when you see a Test cricketer close up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is the violent death of a charismatic former Test cricketer and media personality a one-time page three story?
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Animals need to adapt their bodies to survive and prosper in extreme conditions, as do cricketers their skills.
Times, Sunday Times
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The children had a wonderful day out in company of the illustrious cricketer.
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Just reserved a load of tee times tomorrow for the England cricketers and commentary team!
Times, Sunday Times
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Well-known club cricketer in Surrey/Middx: 10 for 36 for Kingston v Surbiton Town, 1961.
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All promising young cricketers would like to play for England.
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The sporting world is grieving the death of former local cricketer Robert Kay, aged 78.
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He was a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers.
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This spirited and vivacious cricketer is a fighter, a towering all-rounder in the making.
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More than in any other sport, there is a requirement that cricketers act not according to the laws but to a higher morality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our cricketers are suffering their ritual hammering at the hands of the Aussies.
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That could give him an extended, and perhaps productive, life as a county cricketer.
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Complete sets of MacDonald's cricketers or Taddy's clowns rank among the blue chips of cartophily.
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To pay such a heavy price for non-performance must have sent alarming signals to cricketers in Pakistan.
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Shivlal said it was an honour to felicitate such an outstanding cricketer and a thorough gentleman.
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Australian cricketers take no prisoners but they do give hostages to fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't have to hear a near constant drone about our all-powerful cricketers.
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Her main concern, she insists, was to protect the children's play area on the 3.5-acre field when the cricketers and others were pressing to resite it - for safety reasons, they say.
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Lord's annals bear witness to the first Gentlemen v Players encounter at Eton in 1806, when amateur gentry from schools and universities took on semi-professional cricketers in a match which emerged as a highlight of the calendar.
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All of this was built for wealthy bachelor Edmund Bowman who had his own private training track and stable, a pack of foxhounds and on his own cricket ground entertained the English cricketers.
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WITH his beer belly, mullet and dodgy tattoo, he looked like any old scruffy village cricketer taking the field.
The Sun
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Somehow, without guidance and peer influence, cricketers are apt to bite the hand that feeds them.
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Women cricketers make a pitch for sponsorship - howzat!
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The previous lecturers have all been former international cricketers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was the most undemonstrative of cricketers.
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The class of human beings known as caddies are the offspring of golf, and have peculiar traits which distinguish them from the professional cricketer, the waterman, the keeper, the gillie, and all other professionals.
Lost Leaders
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The only test of a cricketer is the Test match because his talent and technique is tested," said Imran, the first Pakistani to deliver a lecture named after former England captain Colin
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
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A model of patience, persistence and perseverance Marvan has taught not only the cricketers, but all of us, how to get a task nobly accomplished unperturbed and unruffled.
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ALLAHABAD: A local court has registered a case against cricketer Virender Sehwag and his business partner following a complaint from a college teacher in Allahabad that the star batsman failed to grant him franchise for his restaurant despite taking Rs 2 lakh for the purpose.
The Times of India
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He was a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers.
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Cronje agreed that Cassim was a generous person who gave players gifts of biltong and arranged overseas flights for South African cricketers who had not been selected for the touring squad.
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We thought he was a great big fat squeaky-voiced cricketer with a tiresome penchant for laddish behaviour.
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With the introduction of the Internet, electronic and computer games, etc, we have seen a reduction in the relative time spent by budding West Indian cricketers on the cricket field.
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As his career attests, he is a cricketer of world-class standard.
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A many-sided character, he wrote poetry and was a keen cricketer and cook.
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Were you a footballer or a cricketer or a tennis player, something like that?
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The West Indies Cricket Board is not budging from its decision to leave out Brian Lara and six other cricketers from the WI team for the series against South Africa starting in Guyana two weeks from now.
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Do you think that this mixed group of young cricketers could be formed into a team?
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To pay such a heavy price for non-performance must have sent alarming signals to cricketers in Pakistan.
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Our cricketers are suffering their ritual hammering at the hands of the Aussies.
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Somehow, without guidance and peer influence, cricketers are apt to bite the hand that feeds them.
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The idea is not to scout for talented cricketers for the Indian women's team but to make women come out of their homes and play the game.
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It would not be true to say that security concerns per se are a recent phenomenon for international cricketers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Watching a park cricketer routinely count to four, then plonk his foot towards the square-leg umpire and slog his way to a ton is not.
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He was a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers.
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Some cricketers see the game as an esoteric test of skill, others as a raw personal battle, a gladiatorial contest between batsman and bowler.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Indian cricketers are all fairly experienced, they are not rookies anymore.
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But in an era in which cricketers make absurd claims (Monty Panesar is the best left-arm spinner in English cricketing history according to Kevin Pietersen) Frindall's sense of perspective is more vital than ever.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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He was an Oxford Blue, a first-class cricketer and quite good at polo.
