1668 R. Twysden in Cricket Q. (1966) 4 251 At an Horsrace or kriceting sold a bushell or two of Malt made into drinks.

a1672 (c1640) R. Twysden in Archaeologia Cantiana (1951) 63 154 A Cricketting betweene the Weald & Upland & this Chalkehill [sc. the North Downs] distinguished.

1756 T. Turner Diary 24 May (1984) (modernized text) 41 He desired I would come to the cricketing in the afternoon.

1771 Kentish Gaz. 17 Aug. After the cricketing there was a match of running between Miller and Tyson.

1808 ‘D. Hughson’ London V. 257 A handsome plain..appropriated to cricketings and similar diversions.

1851 Examiner 23 Aug. 534/1 Rowing matches, football games, cricketings, and skatings.

1697 D. Defoe Ess. Projects 279 The Publick Exercises of our Youth shou'd by some Publick Encouragement..be drawn off from the foolish Boyish Sports of Cocking, and Cricketing.

1752 Bruiser in Hint on Duelling (ed. 2) 32 Modern Manhood is, Boxing, Cudgelling, Driving, Race-riding, Hunting, Cricketing, Drinking, Slovenliness, &c. Boxing.

1772 Public Advertiser 19 June A Cricket Match was play'd in Mr. Louch's Cricketing Field.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 197 Joel..arrayed in a new jacket, and thin cricketing-pumps.

1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 68 Some of them prefer Boating or boxing, cricketing or hunting.

1934 D. Thomas Let. 2 Aug. (1987) 164 I have given up my cricketing career, & can now cheat at Mah Jong with a dexterity worthy of Mr. Arthur Waley himself.

1955 Times 2 Dec. 4/7 They are all lucky to be going cricketing in a country of sunshine.

1995 M. Kesavan Looking through Glass 104 I found not just more bats but whole kits of cricketing gear: pads, gloves, crotch-guards, studded shoes, even caps.

1784 Wit's Mag. 1 327/2 The hunting, hawking, cricketing, and other troops, in our daily service.

1797 A. Fanshawe Easter Holidays 61 I dislike a hunting, dancing, or a cricketting parson.

1823 M. R. Mitford in Lady's Mag. July 386/1 One club of cricketing dandies encounters another such club.

1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 31 Kent, Surrey, and Hampshire..had the credit of being the only cricketing counties.

1880 Birm. Weekly Post 2 Oct. 1/6 The late Mr. G. F. Grace, one of the three celebrated cricketing brothers.

1927 H. J. Savage Games & Sports in Brit. Schools & Universities i. 18 Its authority rests on no sanction more formal than that of prestige tacitly admitted by the cricketing world.

1965 Times 30 Aug. 10/6 Fortunately, cricketing Corfyots came to his rescue.

2001 J. Mitchell Deepening Roar ii. 16 Scotch's greatest cricketing sons have been batsmen.