Examples from literature

• As a cricketer he was almost entirely self-taught. 
• Good cricketer and footballer, I mean, and all that sort of thing. 
• He was a quiet, sturdy boy, and a first-rate cricketer. 
• That afternoon Martha chanced to sit down in a vacant chair, just out of the range of the cricketers. 
• Unfortunately for him, the visiting team, however gentlemanly, were not brilliant cricketers, at any rate as far as bowling was concerned.