Cricket Rules You Need to Know

 Ten Cricketing Terms You Should Know

You may not have heard of cricket, but it’s extremely popular in many parts of the world – especially India, Australia, England and New Zealand – and the game has some terminology that might be new to you. Don’t worry! We’ve compiled this list of ten cricketing terms you should know so you can make sense of what your friends or co-workers are talking about when they discuss this fascinating sport!

Run

While playing cricket, a run is scored by running from one end of the pitch to another after hitting a ball with your bat. A run can only be scored if all three cricket batsmen (the batting team) have crossed over at least one line in between two wickets. Each time you score a run you add a tally mark next to your name on your team's scorecard. The winner of cricket is usually determined by whoever scores more runs at the end of an innings or match. To avoid adding too many words and making an already-long post even longer, we'll leave explaining how you get more runs and what they mean for another day!

Boundary

Before January 1, 2000, cricket had two sets of three stumps. After that day, they became four. This is where you hit. Ruby means hitting it in play and not getting out, or a shot so bad it's ridiculous. Thus: 'That was hubby.' The term can also be used to describe something generally rotten, like His performance on stage tonight was ruby. If a bowler bowls poorly, he is said to have bowled with rubbishness. Every test match has six days, divided into 24 hours and subdivided into sessions— morning sessions (9 am-12 pm), afternoon sessions (1 pm-5 pm) and evening sessions (6 pm-9 pm). Each session will end with a lunch break during which players usually eat sandwiches known as 'bags'. At lunchtime in England, these sandwiches are called tiffin; presumably, no one knows why.

Six

Several crickets, particularly in limited-overs competitions such as ODIs and T20s. While not compulsory, teams often use six fielders on the boundary to add pressure to batsmen. A six is also a run hit over or near that boundary—the cricket equivalent of an American football touchdown. Of course, some cricket fans will make it clear they’d rather see you score a four.

There are many technical terms in sports like baseball (swingman), football (waggle) and basketball (pick-and-roll). There’s even ice hockey (give-and-go) — where two players pass off one puck for another puck by way of several passes. These terms are prevalent because their meanings can vary from sport to sport. In other words, there isn't just one single word for every situation so each sport is forced to create different names for everything; from something as simple as restarting, play after a stoppage to signalling something done exceptionally well by someone.

Four

A number is greater than three. The name for both a field and an area of play on a football pitch. A punter often kicks it to start a drive-in American football, while a forward passes it to a teammate in Australian rules football. And, of course, it’s also one of many numbers you can use on any given four-corner game. It's hardly surprising that four is used to label all these different sports; after all, each involves moving a ball through an opponent's area of play! Rugby union uses two flags to denote its own playing space – but uses 5 instead because ruckmen often try to tap down players as they go over their goal line. The only place where 4 doesn't mean much is cricket: since batsmen stand around in non-specific positions during test matches, wicketkeepers don't have much reason to mark off four spots per wicket or two spots per set batsman like they do during limited-overs games;

Duck (pronounced dook)

Duck refers to a batsman getting out. Specifically, it refers to a caught-behind dismissal in cricket. This happens when a bowler delivers a “ball that nips back into (or in towards) a batsman who swings at it and misses; if he misses and there is no fielder directly behind him, then he has been dismissed caught. The phrase originated around 18.25. It comes from the fact that once caught out, it's as if you've been caught by surprise. As such, it carries with it all kinds of shame for a player to be ducked out.

Bowled

A delivery in cricket is called a bowl; Bowlers are responsible for delivering these deliveries, and they can be used to create” different types of deliveries. For example, a fast bowler bowls at speeds between 85-95 mph (140–150 km/h). A spinner or slow bowler delivers balls with a slower speed. One of these spinners is called an off-spinner and ,another is called an on-spinner. An off-spinner will turn in towards right-handed batsmen while an on-spinner will turn away from right-handed batsmen.