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    A delivery or ball in cricket is a single action of bowling a cricket ball toward the batter. Once the ball has been delivered, batters may attempt to...
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  • Look up delivery or deliver in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Delivery may refer to: Childbirth Drug delivery Gene delivery Delivery (commerce), of goods...
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    illegal delivery. Illegal deliveries do not count towards the completion of the over they occur in, and thus in limited overs cricket, illegal deliveries do...
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    type normally allowed in all official cricket matches. Compare with underarm. Overpitched delivery a delivery that is full pitched but not a yorker,...
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    batter must face every delivery bowled while their innings lasts. Single wicket has rarely been played since limited overs cricket began. Matches tended...
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  • moment of delivery. In so doing, they can alter the angle of delivery and the trajectory of the ball. Cricket portal Batsman's ground Cricket terminology...
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    In cricket, a wide is a type of illegal delivery to a batter (the other type being a no-ball) that is judged by the umpire to be too wide or (in international...
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    ; Rath, David A. (2006). "Cricket: Fast bowling arm actions and the illegal delivery law in men's high performance cricket matches". Sports Biomechanics...
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  • bad or unfair delivery: The "wide" in cricket and the "ball" in baseball both derive from the concept of a "fair" delivery, i.e., a delivery that the batter...
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  • Googly (category Bowling (cricket))
    Bosie, is a type of delivery in the game of cricket bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler. It is different from the normal delivery for a leg-spin bowler...
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    1947. With changes in the Laws of Cricket, a bowler cannot Mankad a batter once they reach the point in their delivery where they would normally release...
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    national cricket team, colloquially Team India, represents India in men's international cricket. It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India...
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    Leg spin (category Cricket terminology)
    delivery. Leggie: The term leggie can also be used to mean either the bowler or the leg break delivery. A leg break is bowled by holding the cricket ball...
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  • In the sport of cricket, a bouncer (or bumper) is a type of short-pitched delivery, usually bowled by a fast bowler, which bounces once and then reaches...
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  • decisions about events on the cricket field according to the Laws of Cricket. Besides making decisions about legality of delivery, appeals for wickets and...
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  • Doosra (category Bowling (cricket))
    type of delivery by an off-spin bowler in cricket. The doosra spins in the opposite direction to an off break (the off-spinner's default delivery), and...
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  • International cricket. Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram perfected the art of reverse-swing and inspired many to learn the art. An outswinger is a type of delivery of...
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  • In cricket, a run is the unit of scoring. The team with the most runs wins in many versions of the game, and always draws at worst (see result), except...
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  • Free hit (redirect from Free hit (cricket))
    In cricket, a free hit is a delivery to a batter in which the batter cannot be dismissed by any methods other than those applicable for a no-ball, namely...
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    hand with the development of a standard or orthodox cricket shots played to specific types of deliveries. These "textbook" shots are standard material found...
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    In cricket, a duck is a batsman's dismissal with a score of zero. A batsman being dismissed off their first delivery faced is known as a golden duck....
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  • course of legal delivery. The charge of 'throwing' against a bowler is one of the most serious and controversial that can be made in cricket, as a bowler...
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    19th-century standard overs were made up of four deliveries. In 1889 five-ball overs were introduced in first-class cricket, with a move to generally use six-ball...
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  • effectively created a different code of cricket, just as there are now two different codes of rugby football. The pitched delivery was well established by 1772 when...
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    Off spin (category Cricket terminology)
    used to mean either the bowler or the off break delivery. An off break is bowled by holding the cricket ball in the palm of the hand with the seam running...
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    Jeff Thomson (category Australian cricket commentators)
    history of cricket; he bowled a delivery with a speed of 160.6 km/h against the West Indies in Perth in 1975, which was the fastest recorded delivery at the...
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    In cricket, an over consists of six legal deliveries bowled from one end of a cricket pitch to the player batting at the other end, almost always by a...
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  • The flipper is a particular bowling delivery used in cricket, generally by a leg spin bowler. In essence it is a back spin ball. Squeezed out of the front...
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    Pakistan national cricket team has represented Pakistan in international cricket since 1952. It is controlled by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the...
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  • national cricket team represents Australia in men's international cricket. Along with England, it is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, playing...
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