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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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Cricket

Slog

Sports; Cricket

A powerful shot, usually hit in the air in an attempt to score a six, typically without too much concern for proper technique.

Trundler

Sports; Cricket

A reliable, steady medium-pace bowler who is not especially good, but is not especially bad either.

Fly slip

Sports; Cricket

A position deeper than the conventional slips, between the slips and third man.

Tea towel explanation

Sports; Cricket

A popular comic explanation of the laws of cricket.

Loosener

Sports; Cricket

A poor delivery bowled at the start of a bowler's spell.

Manhattan

Sports; Cricket

Also called the Skyline. It is a bar graph of the runs scored off each over in a one-day game, with dots indicating the overs in which wickets fell. The name is alternatively applied to a bar graph ...

Projapoti

Sports; Cricket

A zero rotation slower or variation ball, which when bowled correctly, moves erratically in flight like a butterfly. So named by the Bangladesh bowling coach Ian Pont & fielding coach Julien Fountain ...

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