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means A person who plays the sport of cricket, especially skillfully or regularly enough to be known for it.

from From 'cricket' the game, itself of murky origin — the leading guess ties it to the Old French 'criquet,' a stick or goalpost used in games like croquet, while another theory points to a Flemish/Dutch word for a stick or staff. The '-er' suffix simply does what it always does in English, turning the activity into the person who does it. The sport itself is first clearly recorded in 16th-century England, long before anyone needed a word for the specialists who could make standing in a field for hours look like a calling.