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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slower ball

Sports; Cricket

Like naff plastic wristbands, these are the must-have accessory of the modern international bowler. The idea is to deliver a pace of significantly reduced pace, while at the same time turning your ...

sun ball

Sports; Cricket

A method of bowling where the ball is intentionally bowled at a great height and a sluggish pace. This is done to interrupt the batsman's field of vision using the suns rays often causing disastrous ...

bowl-out bowl-out

Sports; Cricket

A method of determining the result in a Twenty 20 match that has been tied. Five players from each team bowl at a full set of stumps, and the team with the most hits wins. If the number of hits is ...

skier

Sports; Cricket

A mistimed shot hit almost straight up in the air, to the sky. Usually results in the batsman being caught out. Occasionally however the fielder positions himself perfectly to take the catch but ...

bowled

Sports; Cricket

A mode of a batsman's dismissal. Occurs when a delivery hits the stumps and removes the bails.

silly

Sports; Cricket

A modifier to the names of some fielding positions to denote that they are unusually close to the batsman, most often silly mid-off, silly mid-on, silly midwicket and silly point.