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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cricketer
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.
■ NOUN
county
▪ Although a useful county cricketer he will be remembered as one of the greatest county captains of all time.
▪ A one-time county cricketer, he still plays for Darlington with whom he has a reputation as a high scorer.
▪ That could give him an extended, and perhaps productive, life as a county cricketer.
▪ From 175 out of 450 county cricketers in 1949 the number of amateurs fell to 72 out of 370 in 1961.
▪ He probably accepts that the ultimate accolade for the county cricketer will now remain inaccessible.
test
▪ Most four-day matches have not only been a better preparation for Test cricketers but have also produced generally more interesting cricket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He probably accepts that the ultimate accolade for the county cricketer will now remain inaccessible.
▪ Here were my kind of cricketers.
▪ Somehow, without guidance and peer influence, cricketers are apt to bite the hand that feeds them.
▪ Strangely, there is both the outlaw and the patriot in this formidable cricketer.
▪ There have been previous sporting tickertape parades for the 1982 Commonwealth Games team and the 1989 Ashes-winning cricketers.
▪ Walden, who also became a Northamptonshire County cricketer, went on to play for Tottenham.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cricketer

Cricketer \Crick"et*er\ (kr?k"?t-?r), n. One who plays at cricket.

Wiktionary
cricketer

n. A person who plays cricket.

WordNet
cricketer

n. an athlete who plays cricket

Wikipedia
Cricketer (disambiguation)

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 her team: for example, as a wicketkeeper, a bowler or a batsman. Some cricketers are termed all-rounders due to being skilled in both batting and bowling.

The term "cricketer" is also used to refer to one of a number of print publications related to the sport:

  • The Wisden Cricketer
  • The Cricketer Magazine

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.