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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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boot hill

Sports; Cricket

Another term for short leg, the least liked and most dangerous of the fielding positions.

track

Sports; Cricket

Another term for the pitch.

spectacles

Sports; Cricket

Another word for a pair. From the appearance of two ducks on the scorecard as 0-0.

tour match

Sports; Cricket

Any match on a tour which does not have full international status; most typically matches played as a warm-up between the travelling international team and a local club or ...

rain rule

Sports; Cricket

Any of various methods of determining which team wins a rain-shortened one-day match. The current preferred method is the Duckworth-Lewis method.

back-spin

Sports; Cricket

Backward rotation on the ball, causing it to decrease speed immediately after pitching.

grafting

Sports; Cricket

Batting defensively with strong emphasis on not getting out, often under difficult conditions.