Cricketer
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A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket
. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player".
In addition, each cricketer has a certain role within his or her team: for example, as a wicketkeeper, a bowler or a batsman. Some cricketers are termed all-rounders due to being skilled in both batting and bowling.
The term "cricketer" is also used to refer to one of a number of print publications related to the sport:
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player".
In addition, each cricketer has a certain role within his or her team: for example, as a wicketkeeper, a bowler or a batsman. Some cricketers are termed all-rounders due to being skilled in both batting and bowling.
The term "cricketer" is also used to refer to one of a number of print publications related to the sport:
- The Wisden CricketerThe Wisden CricketerThe Wisden Cricketer is the world's best-selling monthly cricket magazine.It was created in 2003 by a merger between The Cricketer magazine and Wisden Cricket Monthly....
- The Cricketer MagazineThe Cricketer MagazineThe Cricketer is a monthly English language cricket magazine published in Karachi, Pakistan. It was founded in 1972 by Riaz Ahmed Mansuri and edited by statistician and cricket historian Gul Hameed Bhatti.The magazine closed in 2010....