Cricket

Cricket

Terms of or pertaining to the bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a roughly circular field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. Each team takes it in turn to bat, in which they attempt to accumulate as many runs as possible, while the other team fields, attempting to prevent the batting team scoring runs.

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sticky dog

Sports; Cricket

A drying wicket that is exceedingly difficult to bat on. Uncommon if not non-existent in recent years due to the routine covering of pitches.

feather

Sports; Cricket

A faint edge.

mid wicket

Sports; Cricket

A field position on leg side that is a mirror of deep extra cover on the off side.

in/out field

Sports; Cricket

A field setting, usually with 5 close fielders and 3 on the boundary, designed to force batsmen into errors by trying to deny the opportunity to score singles while saving easy boundaries.

ring field

Sports; Cricket

A field which is set primarily to save singles, consisting of fieldsmen in all or most of the primary positions forward of the wicket, on or about the fielding circle (or where it would be).

mis-field

Sports; Cricket

A fielder failing to collect the ball cleanly, often fumbling a pickup or dropping a catch.

bat-pad

Sports; Cricket

A fielder who is in position close to the batsman on the leg side to catch the ball if it hits the bat, then the pad, and rises to a catchable height. Also a defence against being given out lbw, that ...