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grade cricket

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noun

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

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Two years before that, and just a month after his 17th birthday, Konstas became the youngest batter to score a century for Sutherland in the top tier of Sydney's notoriously tough grade cricket.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024

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.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2021

Warner has had a tough upbringing, raised in housing commission accommodation at Matraville in Sydney, and has played grade cricket for Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club for 10 years.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2013

Having spent 18 months of his childhood in Melbourne, Strauss was not a complete stranger to Australia when he headed out for a stint in grade cricket with Sydney University in the autumn of 1998.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2011

That was a tough tour but I'd always loved playing there, because I played grade cricket for Port Adelaide the year before my first Ashes tour in 1986.

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2010