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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carrom ball

Sports; Cricket

A style of slow bowling delivery in which the ball is released by flicking the ball between the thumb and a bent middle finger in order to impart spin.

carry

Sports; Cricket

If a hit ball is caught by a fielder on the fly, it is said to have carried. If it bounces just short of the fielder, it is said not to have carried. The carry of a delivery to the wicket keeper is ...

carry the bat

Sports; Cricket

An opener who is not out at the end of a completed innings is said to have carried his bat.

cart-wheeling stump

Sports; Cricket

When a ball hits a stump with enough force to cause it to make vertical revolutions before landing.

catch

Sports; Cricket

To dismiss a batsman by a fielder catching the ball after the batsman has hit it with his bat but before it hits the ground.

caught and bowled

Sports; Cricket

When a player is dismissed by a catch taken by the bowler. The term originates from the way dismissals are recorded on a scorecard; the alternative "bowled and caught", which would describe the ...