The Oxford English Cricketing Dictionary
Monday, July 21, 2008 : Reference
- A: AB
- Mr and Mrs De Villiers are busy people.
- B: Box
- Not so much of a box in shape, more of an ice-cream scoop. Surely the first ‘boxes’ weren’t made of cardboard? Is that why rain stops play?
- C: C***
- Thoughtful sledging
(4 letters). - D: Doosra
- The ‘other’ one that leaves you in the doo-doosra.
- E: Extras
- What Mrs. Gatting puts in Mike’s lunchbox before he goes to Pilates.
- F: Fivefers
- The only thing KT Tunstall and Barbara Dickson have in common.
- G: Googly
- What everyone does to find out something while looking for something else.
- H: Hoop
- A bowler who can’t bowl a hoop down a hill.
- I: Iffy
- Every LBW decision you’ve ever had.
- J: Jaffa
- Jaffa cakes, scones and sausage rolls are why quick singles are less frequent after tea.
- K: Kiwi
- What do you call a kiwi sheep dog? … a pimp.
- L: Lego
- Mr.Lego – one of the less reactive fielders in your side.
- M: Mullered
- ‘You know when you’ve been mullered’; 3-0-42-0.
- N: Nurdling
- Harry Redknap’s daughter-in-law, you know, Louise out of All Saints.
- O: Overthrows
- A ball fizzed in that zings of the stumpz for buzzers …zoicks.
- P: Pace
- There’s no substitute for pace … apart from swing, seam, spin, flight, guile, nouse, and a nagging line & length.
- Q: Queen
- PR
- R: Reverse
- See Queen.
- S: Sledging
- An English pastime, no longer practiced due to global warming.
- T: Teapot
- Mike Gatting
- U: Under-arm
- Team anti-deodorant – supplied weekly by Captain.
- V: Velcro
- A fielder who couldn’t catch a hoop down a hill.
- W: Wrong’un
- Anyone who’s not Clint Eastwood in a spaghetti western.
- X: X-rated
- Shane Warne’s Text Life.
- Y: Yorkie
- Geoff Boycott, Brian Close and Ray Illingworth – ‘Not For Girls’.
- Z: Zinc Oxide
- A lack of daylight causes many cricketers to suffer from Michael Jackson Syndrome.
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