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- All out - innings ended due to ten of eleven batsmen being dismissed.
- All-rounder - a player that both bats and bowls well.
- Appeal - ask the umpire if the batsman is out
- Ashes - perpetual prize in England v Australia test match series.
- Bail - top part of the wicket.
- Batsman - a player on the batting side.
- Beach cricket - an informal form of the game.
- Bodyline - tactic involving bowling directly at the batsman
- Bouncer - a fast short pitched ball that rises up near the batsman's head.
- Bowled - out due ball hitting the stumps.
- Bowler - a player on the fielding side.
- Bowling - the act of delivering the ball.
- Carry the bat - to bat from start to finish of your teams innings being not out.
- Catch - dismiss batsman by catching the ball without a bounce.
- Clean bowled - bowled, without ball first hitting bat or pad.
- County cricket - first class cricket played between counties of a country.
- Crease - one of several lines on the pitch near the stumps
- Edge (or Snick) - a slight deviation of the ball off the edge of the bat.
- Fielder - a player on the fielding side who is neither the bowler nor the wicket-keeper, particular one who has just fielded the ball
- First-class cricket - the senior form of the game; usually county, state or international
- Follow on - (in test cricket) the team batting second continuing for their second innings, having fallen over two hundred runs short of the team batting first in the first innings.
- Four - the number of runs scored when the ball is hit across the boundary (A Four).
- Gully - a close fielder near the slip fielders.
- Googly - a deceptive spinning ball.
- Hit wicket - a batsman getting out due to his bat making contact with the stumps.
- How's that? (Howzat?) - the usual cry of a bowler when appealing.
- Innings - one player's or one teams turn at bat.
- Pads - protective equipment for batsmen and wicket-keepers.
- Pitch - the central strip of the playing area.
- Leg before wicket (LBW) - a way of dismissing the batsman.
- Maiden Over - an over in which no runs are scored.
- MCC - the keeper of the rules.
- Match fixing - bribing players of one of the teams to deliberately play poorly, with the intention of cashing in on bets on the result of the game.
- Nightwatchman - a poor batsman sent in when the light is dimming in order to protect more valuable batsmen.
- No ball - an illegal delivery, usually because of the bowler overstepping the crease.
- One-day cricket - an abbreviated form of the game.
- Over - the delivery of six consecutive balls by one bowler.
- Rabbit - a particularly bad batsman.
- Rest day - a non-playing day in the middle of a multiple day game.
- Run out - dismissal by a member of the fielding side breaking the wicket while the batsman is outside his/her crease in the process of making a run.
- Runner - a player of the batting side assisting an injured batsman in running between the wickets.
- Run rate - the average number of runs scored per over.
- Slip - a close fielder behind the batsman.
- Sticky Wicket - a dificult wet pitch.
- Six (Sixer) - number of runs scored when a ball is hit clean out of the field (A Six).
- Stump - the vertical part of the wicket.
- Stumps - the end of a day's play.
- Test Match - a game between two senior international teams.
- Third umpire - an off-field umpire, equipped with a television camera, whose assistance the two on-field umpires can seek when in doubt.
- Umpire - the enforcer of the rules and adjudicator of play.
- Wicket - a set of stumps and bails, or the pitch.
- Wicket-keeper - a player fielding immediately behind the stumps
- Wide - a ball that passes illegally wide of the wicket (see Bowling).
- Yorker - a ball that is pitched right up to the batsman to go under his bat.
