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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diamond duck

Sports; Cricket

Regional usage varies, but either a dismissal (usually run out) without facing a delivery, or a dismissal (for zero) off the first ball of a team's innings (the less common term platinum duck is used ...

light

Sports; Cricket

Umpires offer the batsmen the option to cease play if conditions become too dark to be safe for batting.

mine

Sports; Cricket

Shouted by a fieldsman when "calling" a catch; that is, announcing to other fieldsmen that he is in a position to take the catch. This is considered good practice, as it prevents two fieldsmen ...

scorer

Sports; Cricket

Someone who scores the progress of the game. Runs, wickets, extras etc

Pro20

Sports; Cricket

South African form of Twenty20

double hat-trick

Sports; Cricket

Taking four wickets in four consecutive balls, so named because it consists of two overlapping hat-tricks. Former Hampshire player Kevan James is the only player in first class cricket's history to ...