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It will be stupidity on our part if we do not get our readers aquainted with the cricket terminology,by which the game is goverened,of course the rules enforced by the the umpire and the match referee which are appointed bt the ICC,which is the parent or      rather to say the guardian body,for the overall welfare and goverenance of the game within the prescribed laws and in good spirit of sportsmanship. We hope all be will be benefitted.

GLOSSARY OF CRICKET TERMS

A BOX: This is a Genital protector often incorrectly called an abdominal protector.

JOCKSTRAP: A supporter which has a pouch to hold a box in place.

PICK-UP: The way a bat feels to a particular batsman. Bats of the same weight can pick-up differently.

ALL-ROUNDER: A player who is proficient at both batting and bowling.

YORKER: A ball pitching at the feet of the batsman.

BEAMER: A head high full toss.

HALF-VOLLEY: A ball pitching about a yard in front of the batsman.

JAFFA: An almost unplayable delivery.

SWING BOWLER: A bowler whose main aim is to move the ball in the air.

SEAM BOWLER (OR SEAMER): A bowler whose main aim is to move the ball off the pitch by landing it on the seam.

OFF-BREAK BOWLER: A right arm finger spinner who spins the ball into a right-handed batsman from outside the off stump.

SLOW LEFT ARM: A left arm off break bowler.

ARM-BALL: A ball bowled by a finger spinner that goes straight but drifts outwards later in flight.

LEG BREAK BOWLER: A right arm wrist spinner who spins the ball away (i.e. from leg to off) from a right-handed batsman.

CHINAMAN: A ball bowled by a left arm wrist spinner which spins into a right handed batsman.

GOOGLY: A ball bowled by a wrist spinner that turns the opposite way.

TOP SPINNER: A top spinner bowled by a wrist spinner which goes straight-on.

WICKET: A set of 3 stumps and 2 bails. (Same used to describe the pitch).

SQUARE: The area in the centre of a cricket ground specially prepared and rolled to form the pitch.

SLOGGER: A batsman who hits the ball across the line (i.e. the bat does not come down in a straight swing) generally in the air.

BLOCKER: A batsman who plays too defensively.

A PLANK: A bat which performs poorly - such bats (though rare) often give vibration in the batsman's hands.

Back Foot 1.  the batsman's foot closest to his wicket, his dominant foot.

Back Foot Shot 1.  a shot played by the batsman with his weight mainly on his back foot.

Back Up 1.  for the non-striker to leave his crease as the bowler bowls the ball to the striker and take a few steps down the pitch as a preparation to taking a run.
2. v.i. for a fielder to take a position behind a wicket relative to a team-mate who is fielding the ball and might throw it at the wicket, in order to stop the ball and prevent overthrows

Backward 1.  on the fraction of the field behind of the batsman's popping crease, from the batsman's perspective; synonym for behind

2.  further in the direction behind the batsman's popping crease than something else being compared to.

Backyard Cricket 1. . an informal form of cricket played in suburban backyards, often with highly variant rules.

Bad Light 1.  weather condition in which the natural light is dim and, in the umpires' opinions, too poor to continue playing without risking injury to the batsmen, and in which the umpires will offer the light to the batsmen.

Bail 1.  one of the wooden crosspieces that sit atop adjacent pairs of stumps to form a wicket.

Ball 1. the cricket ball itself, made of cork wound with string, covered with leather.
2. n. the event of a bowler bowling the ball towards the batsman; synonym for delivery.

Ball Tampering 1.  the act of illegally modifying the condition of the cricket ball, by scuffing and roughening the surface, picking at or lifting the seam, or applying a substance other than saliva or sweat to it.

Bat 1. the shaped wooden club used to hit the ball, made of willow with a cane handle.
2. v.i. (of an individual player) to take one's turn with a bat and attempt to score runs.
3. v.i. (of a side) to take its turn for all its batsmen to bat(2); to have its innings.

Bat-Pad 1.  fielding position on the leg side, square of the striker's wicket and very close to the batsman, a static position designed to catch the ball from a misplaced block or other defensive  shot; synonym for short leg
2. n. a fielder fielding in the bat-pad position.

Batsman 1.  a player of the batting side currently batting on the field.
2. n. the striking batsman; the striker.
3. n. a player selected for a cricket side mostly or solely for his batting ability.
4. n. any cricket player in the context of batting and scoring runs.

Batting Average 1.  a statistic for batsmen equal to the number of runs scored divided by the number of times out; on average the number of runs a batsman scores before getting out.

Batting For The Average 1. (of a batsman) to bat conservatively, in order to preserve one's own wicket rather than to score runs, used pejoratively in the sense that the batsman is playing for the good of his own career statitics rather than the good of the team.

Batting Gloves 1.  protective gloves worn by a batsman, to protect the ball from hitting the fingers and hands.

Batting Order 1.  the sequence in which batsmen from a side go in to bat.

Beamer 1.  a ball that does not bounce on the pitch and passes the batsman at or about head height.

Behind 1. on the fraction of the field behind of the batsman's popping crease, from the batsman's perspective; synonym for backward
2. . further in the direction behind the batsman's popping crease than somethig else.

Benefit Of The Doubt 1.  the principle applied by umpires whenever they are unsure of a decision concerning a batsman possibly being out, in which the decision made must be to the benefit of the batsman and not the fielding side.

Best Bowling 1.  a statistic representing the most valuable bowling figures

 in a given set - either over an individual's career, or a comparison between bowlers - being the bowling figures with the most number of wickets taken, with ties broken in favour of the fewest runs conceded.

Block 1.  a type of batsman's shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, without swinging the bat, so that the ball loses momentum and drops quickly to the pitch, designed to defend the batsman's wicket and pads from being hit by the ball; a front foot defensive
2. v.i. to play a block shot.
3. v.t. to hit the ball with a block.
4. n. a synonym for guard

Blockhole 1.  a depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken  guard

Board 1.  a national governing body for cricket within a nation.

Bodyline 1. n. a tactic employed by the fielding side in which fielders are placed near the batsman on the leg side and the bowlers bowl fast, short pitched balls aimed at the batsman, with the goal of making the batsman fend the ball away from his body and deflect the ball for a catch, first used by the English team touring Australia in 1932-33 and subsequently made illegal under the law governing fair play; synonym for leg theory but with greater connotations of foul play.

Boots 1.  the sports shoes worn by cricket players.

Bosie 1. an archaic term for a googly

Bottom Edge 1.  the edge of a cricket bat on the bottom as the bat is held horizontally.
2. n. a deflection of the cricket ball off the bottom edge of the striker's bat, usually travelling straight into the ground near the striker, potentially into his wicket. cf. inside edge, outside edge  top edge
3. . to hit the ball with the bottom edge of the bat.

Bottom Hand 1.  a batsman's dominant hand, so called because it is further down the handle of the bat in a standard batting grip.

Bottom Order 1.  the batsmen who normally bat in roughly positions 8-11 in the batting order; the tail
2.  describing a batsman who normally bats in the bottom order.

Bounce 1. (of a bowler) to bowl a short pitched ball at a batsman so that the ball flies at or near the batsman's head. The bowler bounced the batsman to put him on the defensive.

Boundary 1.. the perimeter of a cricket field, marked by an obvious fence or marker.
2. n. a score of 4 runs by the ball reaching the boundary(1), or a score of 6 runs by the ball reaching the boundary(1) on the full.
3.  a hit by the batsman which scores a boundary(2).

Bowl 1. v.i. to hurl (a cricket ball) towards the batsman using a legal cricket bowling action.
2.  to engage in a period of bowling several balls or overs.
3.  to bowl(1) a cricket ball.
4.  to get a batsman out bowled.
5.  a turn at bowling.

Bowl Out 1.  for a side to take all the opponents wickets in an innings and thus end the innings, the wickets not necessarily being taken bowled. The side need to bowl out their opposition quickly.

Bowled 1.  describing the method of getting out in which the bowler bowls a ball and it hits and breaks the batsman's wicket.
2.  (of a bowler) to have got a batsman out bowled.

Bowled Out 1.  the state of a batsman having been out bowled.
2. n. the state of an entire side of having lost all its wickets and its innings ended, the wicket not necessarily falling by the method of being bowled. The side was bowled out for 200 runs. 3. v. for a side to have taken all the opponents wickets in an innings and thus ended the innings, the wickets not necessarily being taken bowled; past tense of bowl out The side bowled out their opposition for 200 runs.

Bowler 1.  a player of the fielding side currently bowling.
2. n. a player selected for a cricket side mostly or solely for his bowling ability.
3. n. any cricket player in the context of bowling and taking wickets.

Bowling Average 1.  a statistic for bowlers equal to the number of runs conceded divided by the number of wickets taken; on average the number of runs a bowler concedes for each wicket he takes.

Bowling Crease 1.  the white line marked on the pitch running through and parallel to each wicket, and ending at the return creases

Bowling Figures 1.  a group of statistics listed for a bowler in a single innings, in order: the number of overs bowled, the number of maidens bowled, the number of runs conceded, the number of wickets(2)taken.
2. n. collectively, the bowling figures for all the bowlers who bowled in an innings.

Break 1.  to dislodge one or both bails (of a wicket). If both bails are already off, to break the wicket a fielder must remove a stump from the ground with the ball in contact with the stump.
2. n. sideways deviation in the trajectory of a ball as it bounces on the pitch. cf. off break leg break

Breeze 1.  the wind blowing across a cricket field during play, no matter how strong.

Broken 1.  the state of a wicket in which one or both bails have fallen off the stumps.

Bump Ball 1.  a ball that bounces on the pitch immediately after hitting the bat, then flies into the air, sometimes having the appearance of a ball hit in the air directly off the bat and which can cause spectators to assume the batsman can be caught out.

Bumper 1.  a bouncer

Bunny 1 colloquial term for a very poor batsman, usually selected for a team solely on bowling ability; synonym of rabbit. cf. ferret
2. colloquial term for a batsman, not necessarily a poor one, who tends to get out when facing a certain bowler. Jones was Smith's bunny.

ashes    :A competition of 5 test matches held between Australia and England every four years. Considered the most prestigious test match tournament. The trophy is a small urn full of ahses made from the burning of a stump when England lost to Australia for the first time, it was declared then that Cricket has died.

bail    :The bails are two wooden crosspieces which sit in grooves on the top of adjacent pairs of stumps. Each bail is 11.1 cms in length.
 

bouncer    :A ball delivered by a faster bowler which is not so much regarded as a wicket-taking ball but as a method of unsettling a batsman. It is bowled from a shorter length and therefore bounces higher, usually around head height to force indecision from batsmen.
 

bowl(ing)  :The method by which the ball is presented to batsmen in a match. There are numerous varieties, fast, swing, medium or spin, with variations on each.

bye   :When a ball passes the wicket untouched by the batsman and the batsman runs for a run, it is known as a bye.

duck :  When a batsman gets out without scoring

four  :When a ball is hit by the batsman along the ground and it passes the boundary, the batsman scores 4 runs.

full toss  :A ball which doesn't bounce before it reaches the batsman. Usually conducive to a free hit by the batsman.

over   :Six balls bowled by a bowler completes an over. After the completion of an over a new over begins from the other end by a new bowler.

pitch   :The area between the two wickets where the batsman bats and the bowler bowls.

runout  :A batsman is declared run out when the fielder hits the wicket before the batsman touches the white line of the crease while running for a run.

six :   When a ball is hit directly over the boundary, the batsman gets 6 runs.

slip:  The fielding position behind the batsman and wide of the wicket-keeper where fieldsmen attempt to catch the 'slips' that occur from batsmen when the fail to properly connect with balls.
 

Although a cricket team consists of 12 players, only eleven of these players will take the field during the innings in which the team is fielding, with the 12th player remaining in reserve in the likelihood of an injury to a fielding player. One player will always take the position of the wicketkeeper, another player will be designated as a bowler, leaving 9 players to adopt various positions as chosen by the captain within the field of play. The fielding tactics adopted by the captain will vary depending on whether the fielding captain has chosen to adopt either defensive or attacking tactics.

The tactics are decided after taking into account a number of variables. These will include whether or not the fielding team has already batted and if so, whether the total runs they made during their batting innings are decisive enough for the captain to decide the fielding team is in a winning position. An attacking field would be set so as to force the batting side into making errors by adopting aggressive bowling tactics and placing fieldsmen in close to the batsman. A defensive field setting would be set, in the event the fielding captain believes his team's previous batting total can be easily eclipsed. The fieldsmen would be placed in such a way, they would be able to save the majority of batting strokes from reaching the boundary for four or more runs. If the fielding captain is able to force the batsmen into taking single runs, the likelihood of a forced error or dismissal is more than possible.

Fielding is never underestimated. Good fielding can choke the batsman and in case of runs not coming by,batsman is left with no option but to play adventurous strokes and risk of getting out becomes inevitable. Remember the succesful captains like Hansie cronje and Arjun Ranatunga of srilanka,gave as much credence to good fielding as to good batting  and good bowling. Runs saved are runs earned. Hansi cronje was such a motivation force that Jonty rhodes touched the glorius heights. No stroke could pierce the of side fielding,as rhodes use to cover the backward point position guarding as well the gully too.