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cricket

Summary

cricket is a type of sport[1]. cricket ranks in the top 0.23% of type_of_sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28,198 views/month, #1 of 435).[2]

Key Facts

  • cricket's instance of is recorded as type of sport[3].
  • cricket is a type of team sport[4].
  • cricket is a type of ball game[5].
  • cricket is a type of bat-and-ball game[6].
  • cricket's Commons category is recorded as Cricket[7].
  • cricket's Unicode character is recorded as 🏏[8].
  • cricket's country of origin is recorded as England[9].
  • 1909 marks the founding of cricket[10].
  • cricket's authority is recorded as International Cricket Council[11].
  • cricket's official website is recorded as http://ICC-Cricket.com[12].
  • cricket's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cricket[13].
  • cricket's Commons gallery is recorded as Cricket[14].
  • cricket's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Cricket[15].
  • cricket's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • cricket's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17].
  • cricket's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • cricket's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19].
  • cricket's different from is recorded as croquet[20].
  • cricket's uses is recorded as cricket ball[21].
  • cricket's uses is recorded as cricket bat[22].
  • cricket's uses is recorded as wicket[23].
  • cricket's practiced by is recorded as cricketer[24].
  • cricket's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[25].
  • cricket's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].

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Definition and Type

cricket's instance of is recorded as type of sport[3]. Recorded subclass of include team sport[4], ball game[5], and bat-and-ball game[6].

Origins

1909 marks the founding of cricket[10].

Why It Matters

cricket ranks in the top 0.23% of type_of_sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28,198 views/month, #1 of 435).[2] cricket has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] cricket is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Alec Douglas-Home Arthur Conan Doyle Ashleigh Barty C. Aubrey Smith Charles III Don Bradman Douglas Bader England Frederick, Prince of Wales Geoff Hurst Gus Poyet Harbhajan Singh ICC Awards of the Decade Imran Khan Joe Hart John Elder John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich Junius Richard Jayewardene Kamisese Mara Keith Mitchell Kumar Sangakkara Lagaan Mahendra Singh Dhoni Mithali Raj Nawaz Sharif OneCricket Phillip Hughes Phil Neville Rohit Sharma Sachin Tendulkar

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1909-00-00T00:00:00Z
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2547, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  2. 12d ago · Saldanha-mareo · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Twitch tag id → 617e45cb-1c58-43ef-b5f3-050dbd8ae7ca
    Instance of → type of sport
    Different from → croquet
    Inception → +1909-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P571]]: 1909"
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