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Bumper Book of Cricket Phrases

What sort of thing do you hear / say on the cricket field? Some I have heard are:

  • one brings two
  • doesn\’t like that / you
  • a dot ball is a good ball
  • unlucky (usually after a delivery has been called wide)
  • off stump
  • pitch it up / use the pitch
  • bowlin\’ Shane (usually to a leg spinner but not always)
  • swing and a miss
  • catch it (usually to a ball hit in the air nowhere near a fielder)
  • long barrier (after any misfield in the deep)
  • walk in
  • it\’s gone quiet
  • quack, quack, quack (when a batter is facing and still on nought).

Any more?