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An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.

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A wooden footstool.

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A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.

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A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint or other projection.

At cricket he was equally good as a bat and as a wicket-keeper.

Here is the Sussex county cricket ground.

The company owns a park with football and cricket grounds.

Provision is made for cricket, football and other games in a number of the parks.

To the north of the old town are the East and West Parks and the Hampshire county cricket ground, and to the south the small Queen's Park.

The mole cricket (Gryllotalpa vulgaris) and various cockroaches (Blattidae) are also amongst the pests found in this order.

The principal modern pleasure grounds are Kennington Park (20 acres), and Brockwell Park (127 acres) south of Brixton, and near the southern end of Kennington Road is Kennington Oval, the ground of the Surrey County Cricket Club, the scene of its home matches and of other important fixtures.

His death came very unexpectedly, after an injury in a local cricket match.

Imran Khan was more than just Pakistan's cricket captain.

A fine common south of the town is used for golf, lawn-tennis, cricket, and other sports.

Later news The Cricket Pavilion, destroyed by vandals is to be rebuilt by Kent out of insurance money.

The Robins who should have had a cricket score took the lead through Abdul Abdi after hitting the woodwork on 3 occasions.

Iâm told the cricket was alive when it was put in the lolly â yuck.

On the south-east of the city lie Moore Park, 600 acres in extent, containing two fine cricket grounds and the show grounds of the agricultural society, and Centennial Park, formerly a water reserve of 768 acres.

Adam has recently helped Bexley Cricket Club to win the Under 13 North Kent Junior league, coming top of the league batting averages.

Have the cricket reporters in Australia forgotten Gregory and Macdonald bowling ferocious bouncers in Armstrong's Australian team of 1921?

I sat down next to a man wearing a brass deerstalker, white cricket boots, and a shredded cardboard wig.

He has taken four wickets for 215 runs in Test cricket.

England's recent record in one-day cricket does not sound too bad.

He has taken four wickets for 215 runs in test cricket.

So, carrying on to the Saturday, after Blyth have bashed through a few golden oldies, the cricket will commence around 1.00.

I like the link with cricket (stats etc) Only 38 days to go Ca n't wait Thanks for the advice.

Kids do n't play cricket these days at school, without it on terrestrial telly, what chance do they have to be inspired !

The rain then really set in and the majority traipsed off to the White Horse to discuss the day 's cricket.

There were similar scenes after the England cricket team trounced the Aussies.

The mulundo bears a fruit about the size of a cricket ball covered with a hard green shell and containing scarlet pips like a pomegranate.

Part is laid out as an 18-hole golf course; a section is reserved for cricket and football; a portion has been railed off for a race-course, and a bathing-station has been erected.

Cook made his first 1000 run season in first-class cricket this summer, scoring three centuries on the way.

Huq hopes tha he can convince the Chinese Olympic officials to include Twenty20 cricket in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou.

All-in-all weâre feeling pretty good about most aspects of our game because weâve started playing better stuff in four-day cricket.

Its sports hall is regularly used for badminton, basketball, hockey, archery and indoor cricket.

He has in the past tried to destroy English cricket by writing a poorly thought out report on the future of English cricket.

Davies now confines himself to cricket, playing for Barnes Common cricket club, which recently toured in Barbados.

Pictures of the mole cricket are available from the English Nature National Press office.

A season in county cricket seems to have worked more wonders than all the coaching.

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Bures withdrew from league cricket in early 2003 because of lack of players, but retain some members who wish to play league cricket.

Hampshire will also be running a Hampshire youth cricket festival at the Rose Bowl in Southampton in 2006.

Friday 14 May Dragged in The International Cricket Council finally deigns to do something about the ludicrous state of cricket in Zimbabwe.

Bob actively coaches many of the Cricket teams at the club and is a very well respected elder statesman.

Denis attended Bell Lane school, Hendon where his father captained the old boys cricket eleven and naturally Denis was taken to matches.

Alongside the village cricket field and almost engulfed in gardens.

The low arched entrance faced across the cricket pitch.

Even worse was that we were expected to believe that his enforced exile would be English cricket's loss.

At the back of the church is the octagonal font surmounted by a memorial canopy given by Flintshire Cricket Club.

S.S. Oxfordshire The ship had a large foredeck which was ideal for cricket and deck games in the afternoons.

It was the first such forfeiture in 129 years of Test cricket.

Raffle tickets for the cricket club were distributed free of charge at the meeting (or attached to these minutes for paid members ).

Without the wealthy landed gentry, village cricket would probably not have existed.

Article continues In general, cricket in south Asian fiction assumes a more mature guise.