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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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single

Sports; Cricket

Denotes a run scored by the batsman in the game of cricket.

run out

Sports; Cricket

When a batsman, while trying to score a run, does not get to the crease before a member of the fielding team breaks the wicket.

runner

Sports; Cricket

A player who is called upon by a batsman who might otherwise need to retire hurt. He is required to wear the same padding and stands at square leg or the non-striker's end to ...

score

Sports; Cricket

A batting side's score is expressed as a total of runs scored for wickets lost. So the score might look like 176 for 5. To make it more difficult in New Zealand and Australia, ...

shooter

Sports; Cricket

A ball that, after being pitched, travels along the ground. This is practically impossible for a bowler to do intentionally, but, when straight and fast, incredibly difficult to ...