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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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spider graph

Sports; Cricket

A graphical chart that represents the trajectory of the ball from each scoring stroke, including its direction, distance travelled, and (where the technology allows) elevation and ...

wagon wheel

Sports; Cricket

A graphical chart which divides a cricket ground into six sectors (looking like the spokes of a wagon style wheel), and shows how many runs a batsman has scored into each area. ...

drinks waiter

Sports; Cricket

A jocular term for the twelfth man, referring to his job of bringing out drinks.

slice

Sports; Cricket

A kind of cut shot played with the bat making an obtuse angle with the batsman.

slow left armer

Sports; Cricket

A left-arm, orthodox, finger spin bowler; the left-handed equivalent of an off spinner (see off spin).

waft

Sports; Cricket

A loose non-committal shot, usually played to a ball pitched short of length and well wide of the off stump.

pinch hitter

Sports; Cricket

A lower order batsman promoted up the batting order to increase the run rate. The term, if not the precise sense, is borrowed from baseball.