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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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carrom ball

Sports; Cricket

A style of slow bowling delivery in which the ball is released by flicking the ball between the thumb and a bent middle finger in order to impart spin.

carry

Sports; Cricket

If a hit ball is caught by a fielder on the fly, it is said to have carried. If it bounces just short of the fielder, it is said not to have carried. The carry of a delivery to ...

carry the bat

Sports; Cricket

An opener who is not out at the end of a completed innings is said to have carried his bat.

cart-wheeling stump

Sports; Cricket

When a ball hits a stump with enough force to cause it to make vertical revolutions before landing.

catch

Sports; Cricket

To dismiss a batsman by a fielder catching the ball after the batsman has hit it with his bat but before it hits the ground.

caught and bowled

Sports; Cricket

When a player is dismissed by a catch taken by the bowler. The term originates from the way dismissals are recorded on a scorecard; the alternative "bowled and caught", which ...