What does cricket mean?
Word: Cricket
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Cricket means a team game played with a bat and a hard ball, with eleven players on each side. A cricket is also a small jumping insect that chirps at night.
How do you spell cricket?
Syllables: crick - et
Tricky part: The k sound in the middle is written ck. Many children write only k (criket) or only c (cricet).
Watch out for: criket, crickit, krikit
Memory tip: A cricket bat and ball always go together, and so do the c and the k in the middle of cricket.
Idioms and Phrases
- not cricket: Not fair or not honest. Example: "Peeping at your friend's answers is just not cricket."
Cricket in a sentence
Example 1: We play cricket in the lane every evening after school.
Example 2: Dada stayed up late to watch the cricket match against Australia.
Example 3: A cricket kept chirping behind the cupboard all night.
Fun Fact
A Test match of cricket can last for five days, and after all that it can still end in a draw.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) trophey
b) cricket
c) umpier
d) stadeum
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b) cricket. Stadium, umpire and trophy are all cricket words too, but each one is misspelt here.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tkricec
a) circket
b) crickte
c) circkte
d) cricket
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d) cricket. Find the c and k pair first; the other letters then fall into place around it.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
cr_ck_t
a) a, e
b) e, i
c) i, e
d) i, a
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c) i, e. Cr-i-ck-e-t: the short i comes first and the e sits just before the last t.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
cricket
a) ir
b) or
c) ar
d) er
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d) er. A cricketer is a person who plays cricket, and the ending is er, as in batter and bowler.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In cricket, the three upright sticks that the bowler aims at are called the ____.
a) stumps
b) posts
c) pegs
d) poles
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a) stumps
2. In which sentence is cricket the insect, not the game?
a) The cricket was stopped by the rain.
b) The cricket hopped onto my bare foot.
c) We watched the cricket on television.
d) He plays cricket for his school team.
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b) The cricket hopped onto my bare foot.
