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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Straight bat

Sports; Cricket

The bat when held vertically, or when swung through a vertical arc

On strike

Sports; Cricket

The batsman currently facing the bowling attack is said to be on strike.

Striker

Sports; Cricket

The batsman who faces the deliveries bowled.

All out

Sports; Cricket

When an innings is ended due to ten of the eleven batsmen on the batting side being either dismissed or unable to bat because of injury or illness.

Nibble

Sports; Cricket

When a batsman indecisively pushes at a delivery pitched outside of off stump, rather than leaving it or playing a committed stroke. Term derived from the tentative way a mouse has a nibble at ...

Sledging

Sports; Cricket

Verbal abuse in simple terms, or a psychological tactic in more complex terms. Used by cricketers both on and off the field to gain advantage of the opposition by frustrating them and breaking the ...

Beat the bat

Sports; Cricket

When a batsman narrowly avoids touching the ball with the edge of his bat, through good fortune rather than skill. Considered a moral victory for the bowler. The batsman is said to have been beaten. ...