Cricket terminology

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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.
Bye - If the ball passes the batsmen, but is not wide, and the wicketkeeper still cannot stop the ball, the batsmen may run. In this case, the runs are scored as byes.
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/Nick) - 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 - the team batting second continuing for their second innings, having fallen short of the "follow on target" - 200 runs behind the first teams score in a 5 day game, 150 runs in a 4 day game.
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.
Leg Bye - runs taken after the ball hits any part of the body of 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, also a way of dismissing a batsman.
Stumps - the end of a day's play.
Test Match - a five day 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.