cricket score

English

cricket score (plural cricket scores)

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.
(British, 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.