Idiom idiom
not cricket
Meaning
Unsportsmanlike.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Taking credit for someone else's work is not cricket.”
“He felt it was not cricket to change the rules of the game while we were already playing.”
“The committee decided that his attempt to manipulate the voting process was simply not cricket and disqualified his entry immediately.”
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Last updated August 10, 2026