cricket score

cricket score

English

Noun

cricket score (plural cricket scores)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cricket,‎ score.
   • 2001, Australian Legends, R.I.C. Publications (→ISBN)

     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. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, sports apart from cricket) A very high score.
   • 2010, Scott Murray, Football For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN)

     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.

   • 2013, Gavin Willacy, No Helmets Required, eBook Partnership (→ISBN)

     International Rugby League winger Noel Pidding – "Football's Bradman" – piled up a cricket score, 34 points, against America yesterday.

   • 2014, Phil Shaw, The Book of Football Quotations, Random House (→ISBN), page 508:

     2–0 is a cricket score in Italian football.