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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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bowled

Sports; Cricket

A batsmen is out, or bowled, if the ball, either straight from the bowler's hand or by way of the batsmen's bat or body, hits the batsmen wicket and dislodges at least one of the ...

bowler

Sports; Cricket

A player who bowls, is known as a bowler. Bowling is the art of propelling the ball with a straight arm towards the batsmen's wicket. The ball is not thrown and if the bowler ...

bowling crease

Sports; Cricket

One of the two transverse lines at either end of the pitch, on which the wickets are set. The other line is the Popping Crease, which is 4 feet in front of the bowling crease.

byes

Sports; Cricket

A bye results if a fair ball (not a no ball or a wide) has been delivered and it misses the striker completely and runs are able to score. An umpire, by raising one arm over his ...

calling

Sports; Cricket

This is the way in which a Batsman's indicates to his partner whether or not he is going to be running. The way this works is if the ball goes in front of the wicket, the striker, ...

captain

Sports; Cricket

The Captain is the leader of a cricket team on the field, and is held responsible by the laws, or rules of Cricket, for his team's conduct. At international level, the captain's ...