cricketanan.
/ˌkrɪkᵻˈtɑːnə/, U.S. /ˌkrɪkəˈtɑnə/, /ˌkrɪkəˈtænə/ 1. Writings or items of gossip about cricket; cricket talk. Now rare.In early use chiefly in the name of a 19th-cent. periodical.
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1862 London Society Aug. 114 (heading) Cricketana. No. I.—The Two ‘All England’ Elevens.
1880 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 3 July 7/2 Some pleasant gossip anent the game will be found in ‘Cricketana’.
1918 Times 18 Jan. 9/5 Rare books and MSS... Other contributions are... Mr. J. R. Hoare.—Rare Cricketana.
1944 E. Blunden Cricket Country 48 After this I seldom heard any cricketana.
2. Collectable objects associated with cricket; cricket memorabilia.
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1950 W. Hammond Cricketers' School ix. 89 Collection of cricket books, prints, autographs, photographs and general cricketana.
1988 Wisden Cricket Monthly Aug. 10/1 Just on £50,000 was splashed out at Phillips' summer cricketana auction.
2006 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 28 Jan. (Sport section) 46 A former Sydney grade cricketer, Cardwell, 52, possesses one of the finest collections of cricketana in the country and over many years has meticulously documented the cricket book market.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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