Quote from: Tuomas on Mon 19/03/2007 22:28:10
Hey, anyone wanna tell me some cricket terminology? I'm going to some cricket team party next weeks friday (my godfather play in their team and has birthday). Just some nitpicking to talk about, like, what's with the pipesystem if there's no sink on them, or why have a paddle if you don't have a canoe
Here's a few for you:
A 'Slip' is a fielding position slightly to the right/left of the wicketkeeper.
'Hazzat?' is an appeal a bowler can make if he thinks the batsman is out, this is a shortened and more common way of saying 'How was that?'.
A bouncer is a type of ball where the ball rises much more than normally, hence the name.
A Yorker is when the ball is bowled closer to the batsman than normal (around the foot).
A googly spins the other way, from off to leg, into a right-handed batsman.
The slider (a straight ball delivered from the front of the hand) is to be compared with the zooter (a straight ball delivered out of the back of the hand).
More cricket terms can be found here on Wikipedia, here.