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.

Industry: Sports

Add a new term

Contributors in Cricket

Become a Contributors

Cricket

Tice

Sports; Cricket

An old name for a yorker.

Military medium

Sports; Cricket

Medium-pace bowling that lacks the speed to trouble the batsman. Often has derogatory overtones, suggesting the bowling is boring, innocuous, or lacking in variety, but can also be a term of praise, ...

Walk

Sports; Cricket

Of a batsman, to walk off the pitch, knowing or believing that he is out, rather than waiting for an umpire to give him out (forfeiting the chance that the umpire may give the benefit of the doubt ...

Shepherd the strike

Sports; Cricket

Of a batsman, contrive to receive the majority of the balls bowled, often to protect a weaker batting partner. Typically involves declining taking singles early in overs, and trying to take singles ...