[f. CRICKET sb.2] intr. To play cricket.
c. 1809. Byron, in Lett. & Jrnls. (1830), I. 63. [At Harrow] I was always cricketingrebellingfightingrowing.
1847. Tennyson, Princess, Prol. 159. They boated and they cricketed.
1861. G. Meredith, Evan Harrington, I. xv. 294. You can cricket, and you can walk.