Cricketer. World English Historical Dictionary

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[f. CRICKET sb.2 or v. + -ER1.] One who plays cricket.

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1770.  J. Love, Cricket, 4. The robust Cricketer, plays in his Shirt.

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1773.  Gentl. Mag., XLIII. 451. To see the Surrey cricketers Out-bat them and out-bowl.

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1861.  Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., xxv. (1889), 237. A coach covered with cricketers returning from a match drove past the window.

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