Meaning of cricket score | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cricket, score.
2. A very high score.
   Australia, British, New-Zealand

Examples

“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.”

“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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