12 сент. 2024 г. · My favourite is “Mingodhu ra” in Telugu. It literally means “Don't eat/swallow (the ball)” but the intention is to say “don't play dots”.

1 февр. 2017 г. · We've incorporated cricket talk into our sex life, eg tickle that down fine leg, you call that a sticky wicket(?), it's all happening down there, etc. etc.

8 нояб. 2021 г. · "Dentury": For facing 100 balls with a low strike rate (usually under 30). "Dream 11, Mutual funds sahi hai": Ads represented by Indian players ...

31 янв. 2020 г. · All the ways to describe a good ball as well - a peach, a nut, a corker, etc. Cricket's littered with slang like that.

2 июн. 2022 г. · Creamed through the covers. Any phrase with the words “lusty blows”.

6 апр. 2022 г. · One that comes to my mind is 'wicket to wicket bowling' which means bowling a tight line within the three stumps and not giving any room to the batsmen.

25 янв. 2023 г. · Lefties have terms like "orthodox", "wrist spin" (instead of "chinaman") and "slow" (what, they don't spin it?). And add to that, "leg spin" can ...

27 апр. 2019 г. · Flipper - ball is bowled with a lot of top spin, speeds up after pitching and is intended to hurry the batsman. Warne had a good one. Drifter - ...

11 авг. 2023 г. · Wikipedia Glossary of cricket terms: A relatively recent slang term in cricket is to "cloth" the ball, for a mistimed lofted shot. I'm ...

24 июл. 2018 г. · Stephen Fry compiled this list of words that can be used to describe the action of hitting a cricket ball.