[f. CRICKET sb.2] intr. To play cricket.

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c. 1809.  Byron, in Lett. & Jrnls. (1830), I. 63. [At Harrow] I was always cricketing—rebelling—fighting—rowing.

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1847.  Tennyson, Princess, Prol. 159. They boated and they cricketed.

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1861.  G. Meredith, Evan Harrington, I. xv. 294. You can cricket, and you can walk.

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