Cricket in sooth is Sovran King of Sport.

Altogether, Cotswold cricket is great fun.

9 THE FIRE BRIGADE MEETING Cricket is the great safety valve.

Mike soon saw that cricket was by no means an unknown art at Sedleigh.

In spite of the improvement in grounds, cricket is still an excellent school for teaching physical courage.

Cricket was the great game.

Mike himself, to whom cricket was the great and serious interest in life, had shirked early-morning fielding practice in his first term at Wrykyn.

the cricket I mean is a real solid, old-fashioned match between neighbouring parishes, where each attacks the other for honour and a supper.

What made it worse was that he saw, after watching behind the nets once or twice, that Sedleigh cricket was not the childish burlesque of the game which he had been rash enough to assume that it must be.

"Jerusalem crickets!" was his comment as he measured the aim.