Cricket

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The only sport in the world where the players stop for lunch. Therefore the best sport in the world.

Resembles American Baseball, only it looks much dumber.

Cricketing Terms

• Agricultural - A wild shot played by the batsmen with no real technique. A hit-and-hope for cricketers.
• Blockhole - Zone of the pitch between the bat and the batsman's feet. Perfect place to bowl.
• Buffet - Awful bowling, where the batsman "helps himself" to runs.
• Bunsen - Pitch where even Ashley Giles can pick up a bit of spin, from rhyming slag "Bunsen Burner" = "Turner". Shane Warne could probably spin the ball back to himself on this kind of pitch.
• Chucking - Illegal "throwing" action when bowling. Accusation traditionally levelled at a Sri Lankan bowler when he gets too good.
• Collapse - Traditional English method of batting. To lose your remaining 7 wickets for 3 runs. See also: choke.
• Corridor of Uncertainty - Scary sounding place. To bowl in the area just outside the edge of a batsman's off stump, giving him a question as to whether it is going to hit the stumps and therefore whether to hit it or not. For English batsmen, this is usually defined as a roughly 30 square mile area directly to their side.
• Dibbly-dobbly - A bowler who bowls at a languid medium pace, rarely threatening to do much. See Paul Collingwood or the entire Scottish pace bowling attack.
• Dolly - A straightforward catch. Aka a "gimmie", a "safeun", "Ed Joyce".
• Duckworth-Lewis method - Sounds like a form of contraception. Isn't.
• Golden Pair - A batsman who is dismissed first ball in each innings has collected a golden pair. Seen as a status symbol by most English players.
• Howzat - Appeal to the umpire that a batsman is out. Usually shortened to "HHHOOOOOOOOOOWAAAAAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!"
• Jaffa - A perfect bowling delivery.
• Loosener - A badly bowled ball, usually the first of a bowler's spell as he gets back into his rhythm, though for Jason Gillespie and Steve Harmison, it can often take six overs to fully loosen up.
• Nurdle - To play dainty shots and pick up one run rather than blast it for four. See: Paul Collingwood and indeed most of England's top order.
• Pie - A poor bowler is said to be throwing pies at the batsman. Presumably as part of the buffet.
• Rabbit - Useless batsman. Usually one of the bowlers at the end of the innings (e.g. Phil Tufnell, Glenn McGrath). Not to be confused with a "bunny", which is to be out to the same bowler almost every game (e.g. Mike Atherton was Glenn McGrath's bunny).
• Reverse Sweep - Overly complicated and largely pointless shot. Paul Nixon's default setting.
• Twenty20 - Type of cricket played 20 overs a side. An attempt to sell cricket as a fast-paced game to the attention span-less youth of today.