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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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chuck

Sports; Cricket

To throw the ball instead of bowling it (i.e. by straightening the elbow during the delivery); also chucker: a bowler who chucks; and chucking: such an illegal bowling action. All ...

circle

Sports; Cricket

A painted circle (or ellipse), centred in the middle of the pitch, of radius 30 yard (27 m) marked on the field. The circle separates the infield from the outfield, used in ...

come to the crease

Sports; Cricket

A phrase used to indicate a batsman walking onto the playing arena and arriving at the cricket pitch in the middle of the ground to begin batting.

contrived circumstances

Sports; Cricket

Unusual tactics which are intended to achieve a legitimate outcome, but result in wild statistical abnormalities; for example, deliberately bowling extremely poorly to encourage a ...

corridor of uncertainty

Sports; Cricket

A corridor of uncertainty is a good line. It is a notional narrow area on and just outside a batsman's off stump. If a delivery is in the corridor, it is difficult for a batsman ...

cow corner

Sports; Cricket

The cow corner is the area of the field between deep mid-wicket and wide long-on. So called because few shots are aimed to this part of the field, so fielders are rarely placed ...

cow shot

Sports; Cricket

A cow shot is a very hard shot, usually in the air, across the line of a full-pitched ball, aiming to hit the ball over the boundary at cow corner, with very little regard to ...