Cricket, explained in baseball language

101 terms and concepts, each translated for American sports fans.

• all-rounder
• back foot
• back of a length
• batter
• beaten
• bouncer
• boundary
• bowled
• bowler
• caught
• covers
• crease
• cut
• death overs
• decent length
• Declaring an innings
• deep
• defended
• defends
• The main ways a batter gets out
• dls
• dot ball
• down the leg side
• driven
• drives
• DRS reviews
• duck
• economy
• Wides, no-balls, byes: free runs
• fine leg
• flicked
• The follow-on
• Cricket formats: T20, ODI, Test
• four
• free hit
• front foot
• full
• full toss
• good length
• gully
• half volley
• In-play (live) betting basics
• innings
• Innings and how a match progresses
• inside edge
• How Kalshi event contracts work
• keeper
• lbw
• leaves
• long-off
• long-on
• maiden over
• mid-off
• mid-on
• middle and leg
• midwicket
• Major League Cricket (MLC)
• Moneyline odds and implied probability
• no-ball
• off the seam
• on the stumps
• outside edge
• outside off
• over
• play and a miss
• point
• Fielding positions, quickly
• powerplay
• pulled
• punched
• required run rate
• Responsible betting
• Required run rate and reading a chase
• run
• run out
• Reading a cricket score like 145/3
• seam movement
• short
• six
• slip
• Pace bowling vs spin bowling
• square leg
• strike rate
• stumped
• stumps
• super over
• swept
• swing
• t20
• How a Test match can end in a draw
• How long does a Test match last?
• the covers
• thickest of outside edges
• third man
• The toss and pitch conditions
• Totals and prop markets in cricket
• turn
• wicket
• wide
• worked
• yorker