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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Batting average

Sports; Cricket

The average number of runs scored per innings by a batsman, calculated by dividing the batsman's total runs scored during those innings in question by the number of times the batsman was out.

Batting collapse

Sports; Cricket

A match situation in which many batsmen are dismissed in rapid succession for very few runs. The terms top order collapse or middle order collapse may be used to describe batting collapses in a ...

diamond duck

Sports; Cricket

Regional usage varies, but either a dismissal (usually run out) without facing a delivery,[20] or a dismissal (for zero) off the first ball of a team's innings.

dilscoop

Sports; Cricket

A stroke where a batsman goes on one knee and hits a good length or slightly short of length ball straight over the wicket keeper's head usually to the boundary or over it. Displayed at the world ...

direct hit

Sports; Cricket

A throw from a fieldsman that directly strikes and puts down a wicket (without first being caught by a fieldsman standing at the stumps). Occurs when attempting a run out.

doosra

Sports; Cricket

A relatively new off spin delivery developed by Saqlain Mushtaq; the finger spin equivalent of the googly, in that it turns the "wrong way". From the Hindi or Urdu for second or other. First coined ...

chinaman

Sports; Cricket

A left-handed bowler bowling wrist spin (left arm unorthodox). For a right-handed batsman, the ball will move from the off side to the leg side. Some commentators alternatively use the term is used ...