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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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through the gate

Sports; Cricket

Bowled through the gate: dismissed with a ball that passes between the bat and the pads before hitting the wicket.

clean bowled

Sports; Cricket

Bowled, without the ball first hitting the bat or pad.

line and length bowling

Sports; Cricket

Bowling so that a delivery pitches on a good length and just outside off stump. This forces the batsman to play a shot as the ball may hit the stumps.

match fixing

Sports; Cricket

Bribing players of one of the teams to deliberately play poorly, with the intention of cashing in on bets on the result of the game.

gouging

Sports; Cricket

Causing intentional damage to the pitch or ball.

tail

Sports; Cricket

Common colloquialism for the lower order of a batting line-up.

draw stumps

Sports; Cricket

Declare the game over; a reference to (with)drawing the stumps from the ground by the umpire.