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Definition of "cricket-match" [cricket-match]

  • A contest at cricket between two sides of eleven players each, lasting usually from half a day to three days. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "cricket-match" in a sentence
  • "Despite legal equality, members of minority communities are repeatedly subjected to a cricket-match or a national-song test of loyalty."
  • "These are fit things for a gentleman to study, and may occupy him as well as a cock-fight or a cricket-match."
  • "One Saturday afternoon, those boarders who had not been invited out were taken to see a cricket-match."