The Young Cricketer is a 1768 portrait painting by the British artist Francis Cotes.

It depicts Lewis Cage, a boy from Milgate House near Maidstone in Kent[1].

He is shown holding a cricket bat and standing in front of a wicket which at the time consisted of only two stumps.

The heroic pose of the composition is formed by the use of the bat.

[2] The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1769, the inaugural Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy held in Pall Mall.