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Sports

Of or pertaining to any organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity or game requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means within a specified set of rules.

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uppish

Sports; Cricket

A description of a shot that gains a risky amount of height, opening up the possibility of the batsman being caught.

snickometer

Sports; Cricket

A device used to measure the distinct sound generated when a batsman snicks the ball. The distinct sound is shown as a high spike (like one generated by a seismograph during an ...

beehive

Sports; Cricket

A diagram showing where a number of balls, usually from a particular bowler, have passed the batsman. Compare pitch map.

pitch map

Sports; Cricket

A diagram showing where a number of balls, usually from a particular bowler, have pitched. Compare beehive.

out dipper

Sports; Cricket

A dipper that curves away from the batsman before pitching.

golden pair

Sports; Cricket

A dismissal for nought (zero) runs off the first ball faced in each of a batsman's two innings of a two-innings match (see this list of Pairs in test and first class cricket).

king pair

Sports; Cricket

A dismissal for nought (zero) runs off the first ball faced in each of a batsman's two innings of a two-innings match (see this list of Pairs in test and first class cricket).