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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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french cricket

Sports; Cricket

An informal form of the game. The term "playing French Cricket" can mean that a batsman has not moved his feet and looks ungainly because of this.

off cutter

Sports; Cricket

An off break delivery bowled by a fast or medium-pace bowler which moves into the batsman after hitting the surface. (The ball breaks from the off-side to the leg side of the ...

off break

Sports; Cricket

An off spin delivery which, for a right-handed bowler and a right-handed batsman, will turn from the off side to the leg side (usually into the batsman).

third umpire

Sports; Cricket

An off-field umpire, equipped with a television monitor, whose assistance the two on-field umpires can seek when in doubt.

tice

Sports; Cricket

An old name for a yorker.

tour

Sports; Cricket

An organised itinerary of matches requiring travel away from the team's usual base. Used especially in international cricket to describe the representative team of one nation ...