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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Rotate the strike

Sports; Cricket

To look to make singles wherever possible, in order to ensure that both batsmen are continually facing deliveries and making runs. The opposite of farming the strike.

Bang it in

Sports; Cricket

To bowl a delivery on a shorter length with additional speed and force. The bowler is said to be "bending his back" when banging it in.

Jockstrap

Sports; Cricket

Underwear for male cricketers, designed to securely hold a cricket box in place when batting or wicket keeping.

Brace

Sports; Cricket

Two wickets taken off two consecutive deliveries.

Start

Sports; Cricket

A batsman is said to have a start when he successfully avoids being dismissed for very few runs; in Australia, this is generally understood to mean a score of twenty runs. Once a batsman survives ...

Pair

Sports; Cricket

A "pair of spectacles" (0–0) or a "pair of ducks". A batsman's score of nought (zero) runs in both innings of a two-innings match (see this list of Pairs in test and first class cricket).

Stranded

Sports; Cricket

A batsman is said to be stranded on his score if he narrowly misses scoring a century or similar milestone because his team's innings ends, rather than because he was dismissed.