Lexicon of the cricket

With

All out

is said when a in finishes because 10 of the 11 beaters of a team were eliminated or unable to beat due to wound or disease.

Alrounder

Player endowed at the same time to beat and launch or to beat and for the wicket-keeping.

Appeal ( Call )

the cry which lance a player with the referee to know if one of the beaters were eliminated on the ball which has just been launched. Usually this cry is Howzat? ( How was that? ).

Ashes,

the name of the series of test matches which takes place every two years between the England and the Australia.

B

Beats

Additional of wood being used to strike the ball.

Beater

Joueur which strikes the ball with a beater with an aim of marking runs . In a team, all the players are likely to be beaters during a match.

Batting average ( Average with the beater )

the median number of runs by handle for a beater. It is calculated by dividing the full number of runs marked by the beater by the number of In during which the beater was out . in during which the beater was not eliminated thus do not count in the denominator, but the runs which are marked there count in the numerator.

Bowler

Joueur which launches the ball with an aim of eliminating a beater.

Bowling average ( Average with the throw )

the median number of runs conceded by a launcher for each wicket taken, i.e. the full number of runs conceded divided by the number of players eliminated by the launcher.

Box

Protection for the genital ones, carried below the pants.

C

Wrestling

Elimination of a beater by a player of field which catches the ball with the flight (before it touches the ground) after the beater struck it.

Century

an individual score from at least hundred reached by a beater during a sleeve. One speaks about double-century, triple-century or qudruple-century for scores respectively from at least two hundreds, three hundreds or four hundreds.

Chinaman

Synonymous: Left-ARM unorthodox bowler , Left-ARM chinaman

left-handed Lanceur which launches while impelling to the ball a rotation movement while turning the wrist at the time when it launches the ball (one says also left-ARM unorthodox ). The ball thus will go from left to right. For a droitier, one uses the term Leg spinner.

D

Declared

In First-class cricket, is said of a sleeve that the captain of the team to the beater decided to stop before the elimination of ten players, with an aim of having sufficient time to eliminate the opposing team.

Dismissal

Elimination of a player.

Draw

a result of a match at limited time in which the team which beats as a second is not all out but did not succeed in exceeding the total of runs. That is equivalent to a tie.

Duck

a score of zero for a beater in a sleeve. When the beater is eliminated on the first ball which he plays, one speaks about Golden Duck .

F

Fast bowling

Synonymous: Pace bowling

Categories of Pace bowlers: Fast bowler , Fast-medium , Medium-fast , Medium , Medium-slow fox trot , Slow fox trot-medium , Slow fox trot

a type of generally launching in which the launcher delivers the ball at high-speed, beyond 145 km/h. The Pace bowlers are classified according to the speed which they have able to give to the ball, of fastest ( Fast bowler ) at least fast ( Slow bowler ).

Fielder

a player of the team to the ball which is neither the Bowler, nor the Wicket-keeper, and thus which is in the field, ready to catch up with the ball.

Fielding

Action of the fielder.

G

Counter

to see wicket.

H

Half century

an individual score from at least fifty reached by a beater during a sleeve.

Hat-trick

Performance successful by a launcher which eliminates three unfavourable players out of three from its consecutive throws (throws can belong to overs different).

I

In-swing

a throw whose trajectory curves towards the beater.

In

a sleeve of a match. It corresponds to a turn of beater for a team. This word takes a S final even in the singular.

L

Laws off cricket

rules of the cricket, codified by the Marylebone Cricket Club

LBW

Abbreviation de Leg Before Wicket. A beater east eliminates LBW when it blocks with generally its pad or another part of its body a throw which would have normally runs up against the stumps and conduit has its elimination.

Leg spin

a type of launching for which the launcher impels with the ball a rotation movement while turning the wrist at the time when it launches the ball (from where the denomination of wrist spin , also used). The term leg spinner is generally reserved for the launchers droitiers which launch this manner. For the others one speaks about unorthodox spinners or about chinamen .

M

Middle-order batsman

a beater which officiates just after the opening batsmen in the order of passage of the beaters, generally in a place between 3 and 6.

NR

Not out

is said of a beater which is on the ground and which is not eliminated yet, in particular at the end of a match.

O

Off spin

a style of launching in lequelle the launcher impels a rotation movement with the ball by using the fingers at the time when the ball is delivered (one also speaks about finger spin ). One generally holds the term of off spinner with the launchers droitiers which use this style. For the left-handeds person one speaks about launchers orthodox .

Opening batsman

One of the first two beaters of a team on the ground.

Orthodox

a left-handed launcher which impels a rotation movement with the ball by using the fingers.

Over

a series of six consecutive throws of same a launcher. In the past, the overs consisted sometimes of four or eight throws.

P

Pitch

Surface on which the bowlers launch their balls right in front of the beater.

Pad

Pad is the protection measure carries by the cricketer on the level of the genous.

Partnership

the cumulated number of runs marked by two beaters which are simultaneously on the ground before one of those is not eliminated.

* the expressions partnership for the third wicket or third partnership indicate for example the partnership which precedes the third elimination in the team.

R

Run

a point marked by the team with the beater.

S

Six

Six points marked in only one blow by a beater, by sending the ball in a direct way to external of the limits of the ground.

Spin bowling

a style of launching in which the launcher tries to mislead the unfavourable beater by impelling a rotation movement with the ball by using either the fingers or the wrist. The spin bowling is more effective when the ball with a relatively slow movement.

Stump

One of the three stakes which constitute the wicket .

the off stump is located side of the beater of the beater

the middle stump is the stake of the

medium the leg stump is located side of the leg of the beater

Stumped

is said of a player eliminated by the destruction from the wicket which it defends by the wicket-keeper whereas it left his sure zone.

U

Umpire

Referee in a match of cricket. There are two of them simultaneously on the ground.

T

Tie

the result of one match at the end of which the scores of the two teams are equal in marked terms of runs. It is said that the match is tied . This result occurred only twice in Test cricket.

Third Umpire

Third referee present in the platforms and person in charge of the visionnage of the video idle when the two referees present on the ground have a doubt about the decision has to take. Mainly uses to decide or not to leave a player Run Out

W

Wicket

1. Together constituted of three vertical wood stakes of approximately 70 cm height and two small sticks which rest there and located at each end of the pitch.

2. Elimination of a player by a launcher.

Wicket-keeper

Player of the team to the ball positioned just behind the wicket of the beater which faces the ball. It is a post of specialist.

Wicket-keeper batsman

gifted Wicket-keeper also in time that beater.

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