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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Run chase

Sports; Cricket

The act/task of the team batting second (in a limited-overs match) or batting fourth (in an unlimited overs match), trying to win a match by batting and surpassing the runs accumulated by the ...

Batting

Sports; Cricket

The act and skill of defending one's wicket and scoring runs.

Shot

Sports; Cricket

The act of the batsman hitting the ball with his bat.

Bowling

Sports; Cricket

The act of delivering the cricket ball to the batsman.

Tie

Sports; Cricket

The result of a cricket in which the two teams' scores are equal and the team batting last is all out; or in a limited overs match, the allotted overs have been played. Not to be confused with a ...

Net run rate (NRR)

Sports; Cricket

The run rate scored by the winning team subtracted by run rate scored by losing team. The winning team gets positive value, losing team the negative value. In a series, the mean of the NRR for all ...

Strike

Sports; Cricket

The position as batsman, as opposed to non striker. Often, 'Keep strike', to arrange runs on the last ball of an over so as to face the first ball of the next. 'Shepherd the Strike': to keep doing ...