Cricketer

[f. CRICKET sb.² or v. + -ER¹.] One who plays cricket.

1770.  J. Love, Cricket, 4. The robust Cricketer, plays in his Shirt.

1773.  Gentl. Mag., XLIII. 451. To see the Surrey cricketers Out-bat them and out-bowl.

1861.  Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., xxv. (1889), 237. A coach covered with cricketers returning from a match drove past the window.