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means A team's or player's turn at batting, or more broadly, any stretch of time someone gets to have their go before it passes to someone else.

from From 'inning,' an old English word for a 'turn' or 'spell,' built on the verb 'to in,' meaning to get in or take possession — originally used for getting land in (as in 'innings' of reclaimed marsh). Cricket adopted it for a batting turn, and famously kept the 's' even for a single player's turn, unlike American baseball, which trimmed it to 'inning.' The 'everyone gets ages' feel is pure cricket culture, not etymology — matches can run for days, so the word's patience is earned honestly.