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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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selector

Sports; Cricket

A person who is delegated with the task of choosing players for a cricket team. Typically the term is used in the context of player selection for national, provincial and other ...

cricketer

Sports; Cricket

A person who plays cricket.

bunsen

Sports; Cricket

A pitch on which spin bowlers can turn the ball prodigiously. From the rhyming slang: 'Bunsen Burner' meaning 'Turner'.

nets

Sports; Cricket

A pitch surrounded on three sides by netting, used by for practice by batsman and bowler.

street

Sports; Cricket

A pitch which is easy for batsmen and difficult for bowlers. Sometimes called a road, highway, and various other synonyms for street.

green top

Sports; Cricket

A pitch with an unusually high amount of visible grass, that might be expected to assist the pace bowlers.

platinum duck

Sports; Cricket

A player dismissed without even facing a ball - most likely by being run out as the non striker. Also sometimes referred to as a Diamond Duck.

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