Sentence examples for play a cricket from inspiring English sources

They play a cricket match".

The OBOccasionals met last year as a team of random readers of this column who all trekked out to Tallinn to play a cricket match.

One of its virtues is its extraordinary flexibility: you can play a cricket match over five days and still not have a winner or, as with the Stanford thrash, in one evening.

"This is one of the few places where Indians and Pakistanis can play a cricket match together and there will be no problems," boasts a government spokesman.Yet the action against Syrian protesters, despite strong public sympathy with their plight, points to a broader intolerance for political activism of any kind, including internal dissent.

"You may remember that I suggested inviting OBOers to come and play a cricket match in Tallinn this summer, and you sounded interested – well, we have seven players signed up so far after only one plug on a rainy NZ night, so it's looking good," says Robin Hazlehurst.

But they were the first polar explorers ever to a play a cricket match there.

Four years earlier, a team of London cricketers had already played a cricket team from New York, for a considerable wager, and between 1840 and 1855 cricket was America's leading ball game.

He allowed me to play a brand of cricket I wanted to play.

They play a lot of cricket in the subcontinent with the IPL.

"We've got to prepare to play a game of cricket though.

"I am excited about being able to play a lot of cricket, playing in a very professional environment and with wonderful facilities".