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Sports; Cricket

Runs accrued by a team that do not come off the batsmen's generating the runs. Examples of these are wides, byes and no balls.

fair catch

Sports; Cricket

A fair catch is any ball that is caught on the fly off the batsmen's bat or if it touches hits of the batsmen wrist, his hand or glove and the player catching the ball has ...

fall of a wicket

Sports; Cricket

This is the term that means the batsman is out.

fence

Sports; Cricket

The way the boundary is marked on some cricket fields. A fielder may touch a boundary fence when stopping or catching a ball, but if he touches a boundary line or rope, the ball ...

ferret

Sports; Cricket

A ferret is an extremely poor batsmen and he is called this because he "goes in after the rabbits". Meaning he will swing at almost any ball that is bowled to him.

fielders

Sports; Cricket

Fielders are defensive players, other then the bowler and the wicketkeeper, who are out in the field to try and keep the batsmen from scoring any runs.