grade cricket

noun

1. competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades

Example Sentences

Holder arranged Crawley's stint in grade cricket with Perth club Wembley Districts, where they rated the then 18-year-old as an excellent golfer but a terrible poker player.

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He has, however, gained some experience of Australian cricket culture after spending a winter in Sydney playing grade cricket.

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A further stage in Brook's cricketing education came in Sydney's notoriously tough grade cricket competition with the University of New South Wales, the former club of Australia internationals Michael Slater, Geoff Lawson and Dan Christian.

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When that didn't work out, he returned to Australia and made enough runs in grade cricket to be part of the Sydney Sixers squad for the inaugural season of the Big Bash in 2011-12.

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All of this underestimated the tenacity and ability of a player who had persisted through seven years of a career derailed by injury, to the point that he was failing in local grade cricket, and had fought back up to the highest level.

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