cricketing
Noun pluralcricketings
Pluralcricketings
- 1Describing a person, team, or other group that plays the sport of cricket.
The cricketing brothers both went on to play for their country.
Teams from India, Australia, and other cricketing nations arrived for the tournament.
- 2Present participle and gerund of cricket.
Note
The verb behind this form is rare and takes no object: you can spend a weekend cricketing, but nobody crickets a match. Playing cricket is the ordinary way to say it, so the verb form stands out. Keep it apart from the adjective for players, as in cricketing nations, where the word describes a noun rather than naming an action.
- 3A single game or match of cricket.
A cricketing was arranged between the two colleges for the first fine Saturday of spring.
Families brought picnics to every cricketing held on the common.
Note
Older writing could count games of cricket with this word, as one cricketing or several cricketings; today the occasion is a cricket match or a game of cricket. The plural paired easily with other -ing pastimes: in Cuthbert Bede's The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman (1853), the Cowley cricketings and the Isis boatings keep the hero from his books.
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