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Despite legal equality, members of minority communities are repeatedly subjected to a cricket-match or a national-song test of loyalty.

Archive 2009-07-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

Despite legal equality, members of minority communities are repeatedly subjected to a cricket-match or a national-song test of loyalty.

Chandrabhan Prasad celebrates capitalism, consumption and globalization Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

These are fit things for a gentleman to study, and may occupy him as well as a cock-fight or a cricket-match.

The Virginians 2006

One Saturday afternoon, those boarders who had not been invited out were taken to see a cricket-match.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003

On the Saturday Thompson died, in the bright afternoon, while the cricket-match was going on as usual on the big-side ground.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

She and some of the girls from her school played truant t'other day and went to see a County cricket-match.

The Making of a Soul Kathlyn Rhodes

During the delay which seems inseparable from the commencement of a cricket-match some of the players, ready costumed in cricket apparel,

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

Nor can we here refer to the incidental pleasures which a cricket-match affords independently of participation in the game itself.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

In fact, no ball, party, picnic, cricket-match, race or private theatricals were considered complete without him.

Vellenaux A Novel

A few weeks previous to the holidays, "the old Queen" gave a magnificent _fête_ at Frogmore, when, to form a prominent feature in the day's amusements, her favourites, the Etonians, were invited to play a cricket-match, for which a beautiful space of lawn had already been most good-naturedly prepared.

Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.