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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Follow through

Sports; Cricket

A bowler's body actions after the release of the ball to stabilise their body.

Steaming in

Sports; Cricket

A bowler taking a fast run-up to bowl is said to be steaming in.

Bowl-out bowl-out

Sports; Cricket

A method of determining the result in a Twenty 20 match that has been tied. Five players from each team bowl at a full set of stumps, and the team with the most hits wins. If the number of hits is ...

Free hit

Sports; Cricket

A penalty given in some forms of cricket when a bowler bowls a front foot no-ball. The bowler must bowl another delivery, and the batsman cannot be dismissed by the bowler from that delivery. Between ...

Skier

Sports; Cricket

A mistimed shot hit almost straight up in the air, to the sky. Usually results in the batsman being caught out. Occasionally however the fielder positions himself perfectly to take the catch but ...

Limited overs match

Sports; Cricket

A one-innings match where each side may only face a set number of overs. Another name for one-day cricket.

Silly

Sports; Cricket

A modifier to the names of some fielding positions to denote that they are unusually close to the batsman, most often silly mid-off, silly mid-on, silly midwicket and silly point.