Cricket (disambiguation)

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams.

One of Cricket's lesser known rule's is if a batsman who is behind his own crease hits an opposing bowlers ball into orbit, their team will automatically claim a decisive victory, this type of victory has been achieved only once, in 52 AD, when Arnold O'Flannagan's attempted drive struck a trampoline, catapulting his shot skyward, through the ozone layer.

Four hours later, O'Flannagan's body was discovered mutilated on a Dover beach, with the words 'God knows all' scribed on his chest.

Cricket may also refer to:

Insects

• Cricket (insect), family Gryllidae, also known as "true crickets"
  • Tettigoniidae, known as katydids or bush-crickets

Theatre

• Cricket (musical), a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice

Sports and games

• Cricket (darts), a game using the standard 20-number dartboard

Publications and literature

• Cricket (magazine) for children, named after the insect
• Cricket, a translation into English of the Polish poem Chrząszcz by Jan Brzechwa
• The Cricket (magazine), a 19th-century American general-interest magazine, named after the insect

Vehicles

• Cricket (1914 automobile), an early American automobile
• Plymouth Cricket (disambiguation), two automobiles
• The Cricket light plane or CriCri, after the French name for the insect

Other

• Cricket (roofing), a ridge structure designed to divert water on a roof
• Cricket, North Carolina
• Cricket Communications, wireless service subsidiary of Leap Wireless
• Cricket, a type of spinning float (breakdancing move)
• Cricket, nickname of the character Christine Blair in The Young and the Restless
• The Crickets, a rock and roll band formed by Buddy Holly
• "Cricket", a song by The Kinks on their album Preservation Act 1