1.   Cricket can be a pretty confusing game for non-players.

2.   Cricket can be boring when Botham behaves, and snooker needs Alex Higgins even if it does not like to say so.

3.   Cricket was even less open to the winds of free competition.

4.   In abeyance at the moment is a cricket pitch.

5.   In South Africa, cricket has been the one sport that has brought people together.

6.   This was indeed a Pyrrhic victory, because West Indies cricket was assuredly the loser.

7.   Cricket is so peculiarly English.

8.   By a curious twist of fate, cricket was also my favourite sport.

9.   Cricket is the archetypal English game.

10.   The cricket is a cousin of the grasshopper.