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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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Eleven

Sports; Cricket

Another name for one cricket team, which is made of eleven players.

end

Sports; Cricket

An area of the ground directly behind one of the stumps, used to designate what end a bowler is bowling from (e.g. the Pavilion End). The bowlers take turns delivering alternating ...

expensive

Sports; Cricket

A bowler who concedes a large number of runs from his over(s), i.e. has a high economy rate. The opposite of economical.

fall

Sports; Cricket

A verb used to indicate the dismissal of a batsman, e.g "The fourth wicket fell for the addition of only three runs".

fall of wicket

Sports; Cricket

The batting team's score at which a batsman gets out. Often abbreviated to "FoW" in scorecards.

Cricket World Cup

Sports; Cricket

An international championship of men's cricket held every four years and organized by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), with preliminary ...

Indian Premier League (IPL)

Sports; Cricket

Indian Twenty20 cricket league, in which 10 Indian teams compete to be No.1. The league, first organized in 2008, is the second-highest paying of all sporting competitions ...