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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french cricket

Sports; Cricket

An informal form of the game. The term "playing French Cricket" can mean that a batsman has not moved his feet and looks ungainly because of this.

off cutter

Sports; Cricket

An off break delivery bowled by a fast or medium-pace bowler which moves into the batsman after hitting the surface. (The ball breaks from the off-side to the leg side of the batsman.)(see In-Cutter)

off break

Sports; Cricket

An off spin delivery which, for a right-handed bowler and a right-handed batsman, will turn from the off side to the leg side (usually into the batsman).

third umpire

Sports; Cricket

An off-field umpire, equipped with a television monitor, whose assistance the two on-field umpires can seek when in doubt.

tice

Sports; Cricket

An old name for a yorker.

tour

Sports; Cricket

An organised itinerary of matches requiring travel away from the team's usual base. Used especially in international cricket to describe the representative team of one nation playing a series of ...