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▪ I. cricketing, vbl. n.|krɪkɪtɪŋ| [f. as cricketer + -ing1.] Playing cricket.
1771in H. T. Waghorn Cricket Scores (1899) 74 After the cricketing there was a match at running. 1772Ibid. 78 A cricket-match was played in Mr. Louch's cricketing-field. 1808D. Hughson London V. 257 A handsome plain..appropriated to cricketings and similar diversions. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan 68 Some of them prefer Boating or boxing, cricketing or hunting. 1955Times 16 July 2/5 One of the great events of the cricketing year. attrib.1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 205 Joel..arrayed in a new jacket, and thin cricketing-pumps. ▪ II. ˈcricketing, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That plays cricket.
1823M. R. Mitford in Lady's Mag. July 386/1 One club of cricketing dandies encounters another such club. 1850‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. 31 Kent, Surrey, and Hampshire..had the credit of being the only cricketing counties. 1880Birm. Weekly Post 2 Oct. 1/6 The late Mr. G. F. Grace, one of the three celebrated cricketing brothers. |