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🏏 Cricket game
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🏏 Emoji meaning
Cricket, team sport, friendship, rivalry.
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🏏 Meaning
Cricket is a rounders game with two teams. Resembles baseball. The only sport with an official lunch break as well as tea breaks. In the spiritual sense, cricket stands for a balanced social life and deep friendship, but also for competitive situations and rivalries.
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Cricket vs ping pong; both bat-and-ball icons, small-scale art can hide details like net or field.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Cricket game” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ cricket
Keywords removed
- cricket game
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there were 2 changes.
Emoji title renamed
Emoji title before
cricket
Emoji title after
cricket game
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ cricket game
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ ball + bat + game
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords removed
- cricket
