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Sports

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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batsman

Sports; Cricket

A player on the batting side, or a player whose speciality is batting, or one of the two members of the batting side who are currently at the crease.

batter

Sports; Cricket

A player on the batting side, or a player whose speciality is batting, or one of the two members of the batting side who are currently at the crease.

fielder

Sports; Cricket

A player on the fielding side who is neither the bowler nor the wicket-keeper, in particular one who has just fielded the ball.

fieldsman

Sports; Cricket

A player on the fielding side who is neither the bowler nor the wicket-keeper, in particular one who has just fielded the ball.

specialist

Sports; Cricket

A player selected in the team primarily for a single skill, i.e. not an all-rounder or a wicketkeeper-batsman. Such players can be described as specialist batsmen, specialist ...

worm

Sports; Cricket

A plot of either the cumulative runs scored, or the progressive run rate achieved by a team (the y-axis) against the over number (x-axis) in limited-overs cricket.

pie chucker

Sports; Cricket

A poor bowler, usually of slow to medium pace whose deliveries are flighted so much as to appear similar to a pie in the air. Considered easy to score off by batsmen – see Buffet ...