Cricket, explained in baseball language
167 terms and concepts, each translated for American sports fans.
- all-rounder
- arms crossed over the chest
- back foot
- back of a length
- backward point
- backward square leg
- Canonical cricket-to-baseball mappings
- batter
- Strike rotation, blocking, and the bunt question
- beaten
- bouncer
- boundary
- bowled
- bowler
- bye
- caught
- cover
- cover point
- covers
- cow corner
- crease
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- cut
- dead ball
- When the ball is dead (and when it is not)
- death overs
- decent length
- Declaring an innings
- declared
- deep
- deep cover
- deep extra cover
- deep fine leg
- deep midwicket
- deep point
- deep square leg
- defended
- defends
- The main ways a batter gets out
- All the ways out (current laws)
- dls
- dot ball
- down the leg side
- driven
- drives
- DRS reviews
- DRS reviews: counts and umpire's call
- duck
- economy
- Equipment rules: bats, balls, gloves
- extra cover
- Wides, no-balls, byes: free runs
- Extras, overthrows, and who bats
- Famous matches: exact facts
- fine leg
- The first T20 internationals
- flicked
- fly slip
- The follow-on
- Cricket formats: T20, ODI, Test
- four
- free hit
- front foot
- full
- full toss
- good length
- googly
- gully
- half volley
- hat-trick
- In-play (live) betting basics
- innings
- Innings and how a match progresses
- inside edge
- IPL champions by year
- How Kalshi event contracts work
- keeper
- lbw
- leaves
- leg bye
- leg gully
- leg slip
- Imran Khan (Pakistan, 1992 World Cup-winning captain)
- long leg
- long off
- long on
- maiden over
- mankad
- In-play price movers and the bid-ask spread
- How long each format takes
- mid-off
- mid-on
- middle and leg
- midwicket
- Major League Cricket (MLC)
- MLC leaders and champions (league-only numbers)
- MLC teams and home venues
- Moneyline odds and implied probability
- net run rate
- no-ball
- not out
- obstructing the field
- off the seam
- on the stumps
- out signal
- outside edge
- outside off
- over
- play and a miss
- point
- Fielding positions, quickly
- powerplay
- pulled
- punched
- required run rate
- Responsible betting
- revoke last signal
- Required run rate and reading a chase
- run
- run out
- Reading a cricket score like 145/3
- seam movement
- second slip
- short
- short fine leg
- short leg
- short run
- short third man
- silly mid-off
- silly mid-on
- silly point
- six
- slip
- Pace bowling vs spin bowling
- square leg
- strike rate
- stumped
- stumps
- super over
- sweeper cover
- swept
- swing
- t20
- T20 records: biggest chases and totals
- T20 World Cup winners and facts
- target
- How a Test match can end in a draw
- Test cricket: follow-on, ties, bad light, over rates
- How long does a Test match last?
- the covers
- the hundred
- thickest of outside edges
- third man
- third slip
- timed out
- toss
- The toss and pitch conditions
- Totals and prop markets in cricket
- Real cricket trivia (verified)
- turn
- wicket
- wide
- Women's cricket: recent champions and records
- How women's cricket differs
- worked
- yorker
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