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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stonewaller

Sports; Cricket

A batsman who plays defensively rather than trying to score.

knock

Sports; Cricket

A batsman's innings. A batsman who makes a high score in an innings can be said to have had a "good knock".

tied down

Sports; Cricket

A batsmen or batting team having their run-making restricted by the bowling side.

belter

Sports; Cricket

A belter of a pitch is a pitch offering advantage to the batsman.

powerplay

Sports; Cricket

This was introduced by the ICC in 2005 to try to spruce up the middle overs of one-day internationals by enforcing the bowling side to take three blocks of overs in which they have to have extra ...

perfume ball

Sports; Cricket

A bouncer on or just outside off-stump that passes within inches of the batsman's face. So called because the ball is supposedly close enough to the batsman's face that he can smell it.