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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.
Cart-wheeling stump
Sports; Cricket
When a ball hits a stump with enough force to cause it to make vertical revolutions before landing.
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.