Last Updated : 10 February 2023
If You’re looking for the terms used in Cricket, You came to the right place.
The following list includes:
Glossary Of Cricket Terms
Cricket Ground Terms
Cricket Fielding Positions
Cricket Bowling Deliveries
Cricket Words List, etc
Read the list and make sure to drop a comment which is your favorite Cricket Term!
All Terms Used In Cricket
A Across The Line All-Rounder All Out Anchor Appeal Arm Ball Around The Wicket Asking Rate Attacking Field Attacking Shot Away Swing
B Back Foot Back Foot Shot Backlift Back Spin Badger Bail Ball Bat Bat-Pad Batsman Batting Batting Average Batting Collapse Batting For A Draw Batting Order BCCI Beamer Beehive Belter Best Bowling Biffer Block Blocker Block Hole Boot Hill Bottom Hand Bouncer Boundary Bowled Bowler Bowling Bowl-Out Bowling Action Bowling Analysis Bowling Average Box Brace Bump Ball Bunsen Bye
C Call Cameo Captain Carrom Ball Carry The Bat Cart-Wheeling Stump Castled Catch Caught Caught Behind Centurion Century Charge Chest On Chinaman Chop On Chuck Circle Clean Bowled Come To The Crease Contrived Circumstances Corridor Of Uncertainty Cover Cover Drive Cow Corner Cow Shot Crease Cricket Season Cross-Bat Shot Cutter
D Daisy Cutter Day/Night Cricket Dead Ball Dead bat Dead Rubber Death Bowler Death Overs Debenture Declaration Bowling Defensive Field Delivery Diamond Duck Dibbly Dobbly Dilscoop Dink Dipper Direct Hit Dismissal Doctored Pitch Dolly Donkey Drop Doosra Dorothy Dix Dot Ball Double Down The Pitch Drag Draw Drift Drive Drop-In Pitch Duck Dugout
E Eagle-Eye Economical Edge End Of An Innings Express Pace Extra
F Fall Fall Of Wicket Fast Bowling Featherbed Fielder Fielding Finger Spin First XI First Chance First Change First-Class Cricket First Innings Points Fishing Five-Wicket Haul Flash Flat Hit Flat Pitch Flat Throw Flick Flight Flipper Floater Fly Slip Follow-On Footmarks Footwork Forty-Five Forward Defence Forward Short Leg Four Wickets Fourth Stump Free Hit Front Foot Fruit Salad Full Length Full Pint Full Toss
G Gardening Given Man Glance Glove Golden Duck Golden Pair Good Length Ball Googly Gouging Gozza Grafting Green Top Grip Ground Groundsman Guard Gully
H Hack Half Century Half-Tracker Half-Volley Handled The Ball Hat-Trick Hawk-Eye Helicopter Shot Helmet High Score Hit The Ball Twice Hit Wicket Hoick Hole Out Hoop Hot Spot Humpty Hutch
I ICC In In/OutField Incoming Batsman In-Cutter Indian Spin Quartet Infield Innings Inside Edge Inside-Out Inswinger
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K Keeper Knock Knuckle Ball Kwik Cricket
L Lappa Laws LBW Leading Edge Left-Arm Orthodox Spin Left-arm Unorthodox Spin Leg Before Wicket Leg Break Leg Bye Leg Cutter Leg Glance Leg Side Leg Spin Leggie Life List A Cricket Lolly Long Hop Long On Long Stop Loop Lost Ball Lower Order Lunch
M Maker’s Name Maiden Over Man Of The Match Mankad Marillier Shot Match Fixing Match Referee Meat Of The Bat Mecca Of Cricket Medium-Pace Middle Of The Bat Mid On Middle Order Mid Wicket Military Medium Milking Mine Mis-Field
N Negative Bowling Nelson Nervous Nineties Nets Net Run Rate Nibble Nightwatchman No Ball No Man’s Land Not Out No Result Nothing Shot Nurdle
O Obstructing The Field Occupying The Crease ODI Odds Match Off Break Off Cutter Offer The Light Off Side Off The Mark Off Theory One-Day Cricket One Day International One Down One Short On Side On Strike On The Up Opener Opening Batsman Opening Bowler Orthodox Out Outfield Outswinger Over Over Rate Over The Wicket Overarm Bowling Overpitched Delivery Overthrow
P Pace Bowling Pad Away Paddle Scoop Paddle Sweep Pads Partnership Part-Time Bowler Pavilion Peach Pea Roller Pegs Penalty Run Perfect Season Perfume Ball Pick Picket Fences Pick Of The Bowlers Pie Chucker Pinch Hitter Pitch Pitched Delivery Bowling Pitch Map Placement Platinum Duck Play And Miss Player Of The Match Playing Time Plumb Point Of Release Points System Popper Power Play Powerplay Pro20 Projapoti Protected Area Pursuit Push
Q Quarter Seam Quick Quick Single Mean Quota Quotient
R Rabbit Rain Delay Rain Rule Red Cherry Referral Required Run Rate Reserve Day Rest Day Result Retired Reverse Sweep Reverse Swing Rib Tickler Right Hand Ring Field Road Rogers Roller Rotate The Strike Rough Round Arm Bowling Royal Duck Run Run Chase Run Out Run Rate Run-Up Runner Runs Per Wicket Ratio
S Safe Sawn Off Scorer Scoring Seam Seamer Seam Bowling Selector Sent In Session Shelled A Dolly Shepherd The Strike Shooter Short Of A Length Short-Pitched Shoulder Arms Side On Silly Silly Point Single Single Wicket Sitter Six Skiddy Skier Skipper Slash Slider Slip Slip Catching Cradle Slog Slog Overs Slog Sweep Slower Ball Slow Left Armer Snickometer Specialist Spectacles Spider Graph Spin Bowling Square Leg Stance Sticky Dog Sticky Wicket Stock Ball Stock Bowler Stock Delivery Straight Bat Stranded Strangled Strike Strike Bowler Strike Rate Stump Stump-Cam Substitute Sun Ball Super Over Supersub Sweep Sweet Spot Swing Bowling Switch Hit
T T20 Tail Tampering Tape Ball Target Tea Teesra Ten-Wicket Match Test Cricket Textbook Shot Third Man Third Umpire Through The Gate Throwing Tice Tie Tied Down Timed Match Timed Out Timeless Match Timing Toe-Crushers Top Edge Top Order Top Spinner Toss Tour Tour Match Trimmer Trundler Turn Turn Blind Twelfth Man Twenty20
U UDRS Umpire Underarm Bowling Under-Spin Unorthodox Unplayable Delivery Upper Cut Uppish
V Variation Vee Village Cricket
W Waft Wag Wagon Wheel Walking In Wash Out WASP Wearing Wicket Wicket Wicket-Keeper Wicket-Keeper-Batsman Wicket Maiden Wickets In Hand Wide Works Team Worm Wrist Spin Wrong foot Wrong ‘un
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