Words similar to cricket

Example sentences for: cricket

How can you use “cricket” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

according to Hoyle according to/by the book, according to/playing by the rules, absolutely correct, cricket, in point of honor, on the square, proper/correct way to do things.
And as far as cricket is concerned, Caribbean players have turned the tables on their colonial mentors and now produce some of the best players in the world, easily capable of soundly outplaying the Brits.
They never did find their cricket ball, but when you enter the caves you will understand why they became distracted from their original purpose.
It is difficult to explain to a non-Brit just how funny this misdefinition is--almost as funny as Webster's attempt at defining wicket-keeper : the player in cricket who stands with a bat to protect the wicket from the ball.
In 1907, two young boys were playing cricket, and after a particularly good stroke they lost the ball down a small sinkhole.