Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| backlift | a backward lifting of the bat. |
| bail | a piece of wood balanced on top of the STUMPS to serve as evidence that the stumps have indeed been hit. |
| batsman | the one currently trying to stop the sticks being hit. |
| batsmanship | skill with the cricket bat. |
| batswoman | a female batsman. |
| beamer | a fast ball at head height. |
| blockhole | the place where a batsman rests his bat. |
| bodyline | a style of bowling aimed directly at the batsman. |
| bosie | another name for a GOOGLY. |
| bouncer | a short-pitched fast delivery bowled so as to bounce and rise sharply off the ground. |
| boundary | the edge of the pitch. |
| bowler | the person throwing the ball at the sticks, or oil-drum as the case may be. |
| bumper | much the same as a BOUNCER. |
| bye | a run made from a ball that passes the batsman but is not struck or touched by him. |
| century | a score of 100 runs. |
| chinaman | a left arm wrist spinner. |
| crease | any of the lines that regulate the positions of batsman and bowler at the wicket in cricket. |
| creep | a ball that stays low after bouncing. |
| cricketer | one who plays cricket. |
| deep | in the OUTFIELD, not close to the wickets. |
| dilscoop | an attacking shot that lifts the ball over the wicketkeeper's head. |
| dolly | a slow, easy catch. |
| doosra | a type of delivery bowled by an off-spinner. |
| duck | a score for an INNINGS of zero runs; (verb) to bob down. |
| fielder fieldsman | one whose job is to retrieve the ball after the batsman hits it. |
| fizzer | a fast ball. |
| gazunder | a low ball in cricket; (verb) the opposite of GAZUMP. |
| to bowl a GOOGLY. | |
| googly | an off-break ball bowled with apparent leg-break action. |
| grounder | a ball that keeps low. |
| grub grubber | a ball that travels along the ground. |
| gully | a fielding position on the offside, between point and slips, or a player in this position; (verb) to wear a gully in. |
| howzat | a cry in cricket appealing for dismissal of the batsman. No —S. The H is silent, unless you are very posh. |
| infield | the area of the field near the pitch. |
| infielder | a FIELDER who stands near the wicket. |
| innings | a team's or individual batsman's turn at batting in cricket, etc >FONT color=red>INNINGSES. A singular INNING exists but is used in baseball not cricket. |
| inswinger | a ball bowled so as to swerve to leg. |
| jaffa | a well-bowled ball that is likely to take a wicket. |
| kilikiti | a Polynesian version of cricket played by teams of 15-20 players > KILIKITIS. |
| leggie | a leg-break or a bowler of leg-breaks. |
| legside | that half of a cricket field on the side on which the batsman stands when waiting to receive the ball. |
| maiden | an over that is completed without any runs being scored. |
| misfield | to make a mistake in fielding. |
| notcher | one who keeps score by making notches. |
| nurdle | to score runs by gently pushing with the bat rather than hitting hard. |
| outfield | the area of the field further from the pitch. |
| outswing | an outward swing of a ball in cricket; (verb) to cause an outswing > OUTSWINGS, OUTSWINGING, OUTSWUNG. |
| outswinger | a ball in cricket that swings outwards. |
| over | a number of balls delivered by the same bowler after which there is a change of ends. |
| overarm | done with the arm above the shoulder; (verb) to throw a ball overarm > OVERARMS, OVERARMING, OVERARMED. |
| overpitch | in cricket, to bowl a ball so that it bounces further up the pitch than intended. |
| overthrow | of a fielder, to throw such that the ball goes past the intended point. |
| paceman | a fast bowler. |
| pads | protective gear worn by the BATSMAN on the legs. |
| runless | without runs. |
| runout | a dismissal at cricket due to being run out i.e. not getting back to the CREASE in time. |
| seam | a sewn joint on a cricket ball that can be used to influence its actions on bouncing. |
| seamer | a ball delivered by seam bowling. |
| shooter | a cricket ball that stays abnormally low after pitching. |
| sightscreen | a screen used in posh cricket to counter dazzle. |
| skier skyer | a hit high into the air. |
| sledge | to seek to upset the batsman's concentration by making offensive remarks. |
| slip | any of several FIELDERS (e.g. first slip, second slip, etc) positioned in a row next to the wicketkeeper on the offside. |
| spin | a bowling technique for imparting angular momentum to the ball, thus influencing what it does when it bounces at the other end. |
| spinner | a delivery with spin; a bowler who uses spin. |
| stonewall | to play defensively, thus making the game even more boring than it already is. |
| stump | one of the three sticks forming, with the BAILS, the WICKET; (verb) to get a batsman out by breaking the wicket when the striker is out of his ground. |
| tailender | a batsman coming in at the end. |
| tonk | to hit the ball into the air. |
| tonker | one who TONKS. |
| ump | to umpire. |
| umpie umpy | an UMPIRE. |
| umpire | the cricketing equivalent of a referee, who decides e.g. whether a batsman is out. |
| underhand | an underhand ball in e.g. cricket. |
| wicket | the upright arrangement of three STUMPS with two BAILS on top which the batsman defends against the bowling. |
| wicketkeeper | the fieldsman who stands immediately behind the batsman's wicket and whose object is to stop balls missed by the batsman. |
| wide | a ball that passes completely beyond the batsman's reach. |
| yahoo | an exuberant attempt to hit the ball hard, often with disappointing results. |
| york | to bowl a batsman with a YORKER. |
| yorker | a ball bowled so as to pitch on the popping crease and pass under the bat. |