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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Across the line

Sports; Cricket

A batsman plays across the line when he moves his bat in a direction lateral to the direction of the incoming ball.

All-rounder

Sports; Cricket

A player adept at both batting and bowling. In the modern era, this term can also refer to a wicket-keeper adept at batting.

Dilscoop

Sports; Cricket

A stroke where a batsman goes on one knee and hits a good length or slightly short of length ball straight over the wicket keeper's head usually to the boundary or over it. Displayed at the world ...

Defensive field

Sports; Cricket

A fielding configuration in which fielders are spread around the field so as to more readily stop hit balls and reduce the number of runs (particularly boundaries) being scored by batsmen, at the ...

Doosra

Sports; Cricket

A relatively new off spin delivery developed by Saqlain Mushtaq; the finger spin equivalent of the googly, in that it turns the "wrong way". From the Hindi or Urdu for second or other. First coined ...

Direct hit

Sports; Cricket

A throw from a fieldsman that directly strikes and puts down a wicket (without first being caught by a fieldsman standing at the stumps). Occurs when attempting a run out.

Diamond duck

Sports; Cricket

Regional usage varies, but either a dismissal (usually run out) without facing a delivery,[20] or a dismissal (for zero) off the first ball of a team's innings.