/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Scratch Eleven (A)
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or “scratch team,” in cricket, means eleven men picked up anyhow; not a regular team.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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