By Michael Rundell
Do you know?
- the adaptation among a chinaman and a doosra?
- the place to discover cow nook, the V, and the hall of uncertainty?
- what Nelson, Merlyn and Michelle have to do with cricket?
- find out how to get a ball to reverse-swing, or how the Duckworth/Lewis method works?
- the beginning of yorker, googly, and third man?
The Wisden Dictionary of Cricket is the definitive advisor to the noble video game. This totally up-to-date 3rd variation isn't just an A-Z advisor to all issues cricket, additionally it is illustrations exhibiting positions and technique, and quotations from cricket literature around the globe - from 18th century fit experiences correct as much as the Darrell Hair affair.
It will attract somebody with an curiosity within the video game - from the pro aficionado to the youngest new recruit. If you've ever questioned why a batsman can count on a jaffa on a bunsen, or the way to move aerial while you're on a shirtfront? this is often the ebook for you.
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2. (of a ball) rising steeply off the pitch: ‘The little Lancastrian got 2 for a very clever hook off a bumpy one from Cotter, the ball being negotiated close to his left ear’ (Melbourne Argus 27 February 1904). bundle out vb to dismiss the batting side quickly and for a very low total: ‘The hosts were bundled out for 104 as Ramadhin enjoyed his last triumph in Test cricket, taking 4 for 25 in 10 overs’ (Manley 1988, p 139). bunny n 1. ’ (Kersi Meher-Homji & Rajesh Kumar, Cricinfo Blogs 30 December 2005).
3. ’ (Purandare 2005, p136). í vb 1. Wodehouse, Mike 1909). ’ (Warner 1934, p 31). 2. (of the bowler) to cause the ball to break in this way: ‘I could bowl fast-medium with a high action, swing the ball late from leg and break it with shoulder-and-finger action from the off’ (James 1963, p 43). See also LEG-BREAK, OFF-BREAK, ACTION-BREAK breakaway n a ball that breaks ‘away’ from the batsman, moving from leg towards off after pitching: ‘It means, too, that the demise of the finger-spinner — the right-arm off-break, or leftarm breakaway bowler — is hastened’ (Arlott 1983, p 17).
Three-day) games. Beginning in the 2000 season, the championship was divided into a first and second division (with nine counties in each). The top two teams in the second division at the end of the season are promoted, and the bottom two in the first division are demoted. cover n = COVER POINT: ‘He [Constantine] goes to British Guiana with the inter-colonial team, does nothing to speak of with bat or ball, but … emerges as one of the most brilliant covers ever seen in the West Indies’ (James 1963, p 108).