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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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infield

Sports; Cricket

Those fielders within 30 yards and closer to the batsmen.

innings

Sports; Cricket

When a team bats. The word innings, plural, is used in Cricket instead of inning, singular.

innings defeat

Sports; Cricket

When one team has not been able to score as many runs in two innings as the other team scored in one inning. Again, an analogy to American Baseball, when the home team does not ...

time

Sports; Cricket

This is the signal that the game is over for the day. It is called at the end of the last over.

timed out

Sports; Cricket

This happens when a new batsman intentionally takes more than two minutes to step onto the field after a wicket has fallen.

toss

Sports; Cricket

This is the coin toss to see which team will bat first and which wicket will be defended. This could be a very important decision, which will be mostly based on what the weather ...

tv replay

Sports; Cricket

If an umpire wants the third umpire to review and then make a decision based on a TV replay, he signals by drawing a large square shape in the air with both hands.