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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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pie thrower

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 ...

loosener

Sports; Cricket

A poor delivery bowled at the start of a bowler's spell.

walk

Sports; Cricket

Of a batsman, to walk off the pitch, knowing or believing that he is out, rather than waiting for an umpire to give him out (forfeiting the chance that the umpire may give the ...

throwing

Sports; Cricket

Of a bowler, an illegal bowling action in which the arm is straightened during the delivery.

plumb

Sports; Cricket

Of a dismissal by LBW: indisputable, obvious. Of a wicket, giving true bounce.

bend the back

Sports; Cricket

Of a pace bowler, to put in extra effort to extract extra speed or bounce.

fine

Sports; Cricket

Of a position on the field behind the batsman, closer to the line of the pitch (wicket-to-wicket); the opposite of square.