[f. as prec. + -ING1.] Playing cricket.

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1808.  Hughson, London, V. 257. A handsome plain … appropriated to cricketings and similar diversions.

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1884.  W. C. Smith, Kildrostan, 68.

                        Yes; some of them prefer
Boating or boxing, cricketing or hunting.

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  attrib.  1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 205. Joel … arrayed in a new jacket, and thin cricketing-pumps.

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