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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Fall of wicket

Sports; Cricket

The batting team's score at which a batsman gets out. Often abbreviated to "FoW" in scorecards.

Fer

Sports; Cricket

A suffix to any number, meaning the number of wickets taken by a team or bowler. (See also fifer/five-fer)

Featherbed

Sports; Cricket

A wicket which is considered to be good for batting on, offering little, if any, help for a bowler.

Farm the strike

Sports; Cricket

Of a batsman, contrive to receive the majority of the balls bowled.

Tied down

Sports; Cricket

A batsmen or batting team having their run-making restricted by the bowling side.

Powerplay

Sports; Cricket

This was introduced by the ICC in 2005 to try to spruce up the middle overs of one-day internationals by enforcing the bowling side to take three blocks of overs in which they have to have extra ...

Perfume ball

Sports; Cricket

A bouncer on or just outside off-stump that passes within inches of the batsman's face. So called because the ball is supposedly close enough to the batsman's face that he can smell it.