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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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Corridor of uncertainty
Sports; Cricket
A corridor of uncertainty is a good line. It is a notional narrow area on and just outside a batsman's off stump. If a delivery is in the corridor, it is difficult for a batsman to decide whether to ...
Declaration
Sports; Cricket
The act of a captain voluntarily bringing his side's innings to a close, in the belief that their score is now great enough to prevent defeat. Occurs almost exclusively in timed forms of cricket ...
Cow corner
Sports; Cricket
The cow corner is the area of the field between deep mid-wicket and wide long-on. So called because few shots are aimed to this part of the field, so fielders are rarely placed there – leading to the ...
Death overs
Sports; Cricket
The final ten overs in a one-day match, in which a batting side with wickets in hand can bat aggressively, and in which bowlers are, usually, hit for lots of runs. Bowlers who bowl during the death ...
Declaration bowling
Sports; Cricket
Deliberately poor bowling (Full tosses and Long hops) from the fielding team to allow the batsman to score runs quickly and encourage the opposing captain to declare.
