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British sportsman
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cricketer
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Word definitions for cricketer in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cricketer \Crick"et*er\ (kr?k"?t-?r), n. One who plays at cricket.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket . Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player". In addition, each cricketer has a certain role within his or ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE professional ▪ Yet both professional footballers and cricketers were subjected to unreasonable restrictions and working practices. ▪ There were, of course, other professional sportsmen besides cricketers and footballers. ...
Usage examples of cricketer.
He was dressed in a white shirt, cream flannels and white tackies and looked more like a cricketer than a boxing referee.
He was dressed in a white shirt, cream flannels and white tackies and looked more like a cricketer than a boxing referee.
At Kekepoort and at Hekspoort Clements fought successful skirmishes, losing at the latter action Lieutenant Stanley of the Yeomanry, the Somersetshire cricketer, who showed, as so many have done, how close is the connection between the good sportsman and the good soldier.
Race has become an obsession, to the point of lunacy - this business with the coloured English cricketer, what is his name again?
This gave Kemp the essence of the happenings at the jolly Cricketers, and the name of Marvel.
The tram was quite near now, and the jolly Cricketers was noisily barring its doors.
In another moment he had passed the door of the jolly Cricketers, and was in the blistering fag end of street, with human beings about him.
On the village green, cricketers huddled disconsolately into the pavilion, hoping the apricot glow on the horizon meant that the rain was about to stop and they could finish their game.
The cricketers were running out onto the pitch, anxious to get all the game they could into the last half-hour.
The cricketers had finished their game and flocked into the pub, and the barmaid was serving them with huge jugs of beer to pass around, so it was a few minutes before Jake got served.
Among them were the eleven cricketers, very proud of themselves, feeling quite English and real sportsmen, delighted to have been chosen to play in the historic match.
They joined the cricketers at Hódmezö, and are safely back at the mill now.
Particularly such cricketers as these: did you see how Maitland glanced that ball away to leg?
She began a series of liaisons with colonels cricketers polo‑players diplomats, which were easy to conceal from a Reverend Mother who had lost interest in the doings of everyone except strangers.
The Hobbs Sandwich, he said, leading the way through stained-glass panelled doors, was named for two great Surrey cricketers from between the wars, Sir Jack Hobbs, one of the few cricketers ever knighted, and Andrew Sandham, who had scored one hundred and seven centuries in first-class cricket.