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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tea towel explanation

Sports; Cricket

A popular comic explanation of the laws of cricket.

fly slip

Sports; Cricket

A position deeper than the conventional slips, between the slips and third man.

slog

Sports; Cricket

A powerful shot, usually hit in the air in an attempt to score a six, typically without too much concern for proper technique.

box

Sports; Cricket

A protective item shaped like a half-shell and inserted into the front pouch of a jockstrap worn underneath a player's (particularly a batsman's) trousers to protect his or her genitalia from the ...

doosra

Sports; Cricket

A relatively new off spin delivery developed by Saqlain Mushtaq; the finger spin equivalent of the googly, in that it turns the "wrong way". From the Hindi or Urdu for second or other. First coined ...

trundler

Sports; Cricket

A reliable, steady medium-pace bowler who is not especially good, but is not especially bad either.

referral

Sports; Cricket

A request for an on-field umpiring decision to be reviewed by the third umpire. Referrals can initiate from the standing umpire, or under the Umpire Decision Review System, by the fielding captain or ...