The word "cricket" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the game, the animal, or the sound that a cricket makes. For example: "My family and I spend many summer nights playing a friendly game of cricket in the backyard."
Not every player can go out like Muttiah Muralitharan, taking his 800th wicket with his final ball in Test cricket, or Nasser Hussain, hitting the winning runs to go to a final century at Lord's.
But there has been a real edge to the cricket, too, especially in this crucial part of the match with Billy Godleman determined to shine against his former club.
All sports have their ups and downs of course, and cricket is not alone in producing sports stars with depression.
That is the norm in tennis and cricket, where challenges in the bank have been known to be used frivolously rather than wasted.
Jason Gillespie has been shielded from questions regarding the job of England head coach, while his director of cricket at Yorkshire, Martyn Moxon, has admitted that the rumours linking the Australian with the role are in danger of becoming a permanent distraction to England's champion county.
Back then cricket had only a few weeks of Grand Slam tennis with which to compete for the entire summer and a single screen on which most of our eyes remained focused, even during the adverts.
Modern cricket and its followers don't seem to have time for such lengthy endeavours unfortunately, but the endlessly churning hamster wheel of the cricket schedule goes on and on.
Brown, who was under some pressure anyway at the start of his second season since succeeding Ashley Giles at Edgbaston, was left in an invidious position as Warwickshire accommodated Jonathan Trott's wishes to come straight back to first-class cricket, four months after his abrupt departure from England's Ashes tour.
"He's very happy, in a very good space, and playing great cricket," Brown added.
In a wide-ranging interview with Guardian Australia, Chappell, who was speaking before the sacking of Mickey Arthur, also said he believed the Australian cricket team would lose both 2013 Ashes series: "At this stage I just don't see any way that Australia could beat England".
Three members of the Pakistani cricket team were exposed in the British press for accepting bribes to bowl deliberate no-balls in the Lord's Test against England in August 2010.
