cricket score

Definitions

1. 1

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cricket, score.

   • He also excelled at athletics, rugby and tennis but his ability to amass a huge cricket score in a single innings was soon to gain him headlines around the world.
2. 2

   A very high score.

   • The better teams were beginning to run up cricket scores thanks to the advent of short passing, so eventually this system, shown in Figure 5-2, was introduced to counter it.
   • International Rugby League winger Noel Pidding – "Football's Bradman" – piled up a cricket score, 34 points, against America yesterday.
   • 2–0 is a cricket score in Italian football.

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