I remember as a kid watching a show about a cricket test match between Australia & Uk, The Ashes, where the English cheated (within the rules)by aggressively bowling at the bats man.
Point being, the phrase describes something done that’s dodgy / not in good faith.
Interesting picture in the background, looks like someone wearing a cricket uniform, is it Trump?
In the UK they have a saying (at least when they were mainly British), “it’s just not like cricket “, meaning something dodgy is happening.
Well, wrong phrase and wrong country. Apart from that, it's pretty accurate!
https://isport.in/its-just-not-cricket/
Well let’s split hairs.
I remember as a kid watching a show about a cricket test match between Australia & Uk, The Ashes, where the English cheated (within the rules)by aggressively bowling at the bats man.
Point being, the phrase describes something done that’s dodgy / not in good faith.