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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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selector

Sports; Cricket

A person who is delegated with the task of choosing players for a cricket team. Typically the term is used in the context of player selection for national, provincial and other representative teams ...

cricketer

Sports; Cricket

A person who plays cricket.

bunsen

Sports; Cricket

A pitch on which spin bowlers can turn the ball prodigiously. From the rhyming slang: 'Bunsen Burner' meaning 'Turner'.

nets

Sports; Cricket

A pitch surrounded on three sides by netting, used by for practice by batsman and bowler.

street

Sports; Cricket

A pitch which is easy for batsmen and difficult for bowlers. Sometimes called a road, highway, and various other synonyms for street.

green top

Sports; Cricket

A pitch with an unusually high amount of visible grass, that might be expected to assist the pace bowlers.

platinum duck

Sports; Cricket

A player dismissed without even facing a ball - most likely by being run out as the non striker. Also sometimes referred to as a Diamond Duck.

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