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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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tea towel explanation

Sports; Cricket

A popular comic explanation of the laws of cricket.

fly slip

Sports; Cricket

A position deeper than the conventional slips, between the slips and third man.

slog

Sports; Cricket

A powerful shot, usually hit in the air in an attempt to score a six, typically without too much concern for proper technique.

box

Sports; Cricket

A protective item shaped like a half-shell and inserted into the front pouch of a jockstrap worn underneath a player's (particularly a batsman's) trousers to protect his or her ...

doosra

Sports; Cricket

A relatively new off spin delivery developed by Saqlain Mushtaq; the finger spin equivalent of the googly, in that it turns the "wrong way". From the Hindi or Urdu for second or ...

trundler

Sports; Cricket

A reliable, steady medium-pace bowler who is not especially good, but is not especially bad either.

referral

Sports; Cricket

A request for an on-field umpiring decision to be reviewed by the third umpire. Referrals can initiate from the standing umpire, or under the Umpire Decision Review System, by the ...