cricket chairs

Noun

cricket chair (plural cricket chairs)

1. A small wooden rocking chair or armchair with turned legs and posts, having a padded seat, back cushion, and usually a cloth skirt.
   • One of these rooms—the "parlour," as Susie called it—had a wide, low embrasure at one end, and you mounted a couple of shallow steps to reach it; indeed, it made quite a little fairy bower, for one side was all casement, through which the roses and the wine-coloured nasturtiums thrust their faces...1892, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, page 52
2. The chairperson of a cricket team.
   • Adrian Cole, cricket chair for U.S. Sports in Israel, was picked to lead the second U.S. cricket team, but the group disbanded after the sudden death of John Martyr, the team's heart and soul, according to 1973 team member Joe Siegman.2015, Ron Kaplan, The Jewish Olympics: The History of the Maccabiah Games