[Tutor] What is a cricket match?

Steve lonetwin at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 15:33:20 CEST 2004


Some more trivia ...

> (To be fair, it has also given English a number of nice idioms --
> "sticky wicket" being a favourite.)
Cricket used to be played by the young men coming from the more
affluent families of the British empire and so was also called 'The
Gentleman's' game'. The fair play and spirit of the game led to the
idiom, 'that's not cricket', to describe anything unfair.

Regards
Steve


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