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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Runs accrued by a team that do not come off the batsmen's generating the runs. Examples of these are wides, byes and no balls.

fair catch

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A fair catch is any ball that is caught on the fly off the batsmen's bat or if it touches hits of the batsmen wrist, his hand or glove and the player catching the ball has complete control of the ...

fall of a wicket

Sports; Cricket

This is the term that means the batsman is out.

fence

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The way the boundary is marked on some cricket fields. A fielder may touch a boundary fence when stopping or catching a ball, but if he touches a boundary line or rope, the ball is ruled to have ...

ferret

Sports; Cricket

A ferret is an extremely poor batsmen and he is called this because he "goes in after the rabbits". Meaning he will swing at almost any ball that is bowled to him.

fielders

Sports; Cricket

Fielders are defensive players, other then the bowler and the wicketkeeper, who are out in the field to try and keep the batsmen from scoring any runs.