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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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stonewaller

Sports; Cricket

A batsman who plays defensively rather than trying to score.

knock

Sports; Cricket

A batsman's innings. A batsman who makes a high score in an innings can be said to have had a "good knock".

tied down

Sports; Cricket

A batsmen or batting team having their run-making restricted by the bowling side.

belter

Sports; Cricket

A belter of a pitch is a pitch offering advantage to the batsman.

powerplay

Sports; Cricket

This was introduced by the ICC in 2005 to try to spruce up the middle overs of one-day internationals by enforcing the bowling side to take three blocks of overs in which they ...

perfume ball

Sports; Cricket

A bouncer on or just outside off-stump that passes within inches of the batsman's face. So called because the ball is supposedly close enough to the batsman's face that he can ...