TECHNICAL JARGONS

Cricket Jargons

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Pace bowling (also fast bowling)

A mode of bowling in which the ball is distributed at high speeds, naturally over 90 mph (145 km/h). Pace bowlers also use dangle.

Pads

Utilize the pads hit the ball away from the wicket, only doable when there is no risk of LBW (for instance, if the ball inclined on the leg side). Using the pad as a replacement for the bat eradicates the hazard of being jammed by close fielders.

Paddle sweep

A very fine flounce, almost just a delight of the delivery pitched on or slight leg stump.

Paddle scoop

A shot where the batsman shovels the ball over his/her shoulder in sort to find a border either behind the wicket keeper or in the fine leg area.

Pair

A "pair of spectacles" (0�0) or a "pair of ducks". A batsman's score of nothing (zero) runs in both innings of a two-innings game

Partnership

The amount of runs gained among a pair of batsmen before one of them gets dismissed. This also incorporates the deliveries faced and instant taken.

Part time

A bowler who doesn't always bowl but is ample sufficient to bowl seldom and is often thriving because of distinction in act and their surprising characteristics.

Pavilion

Term for the showboat or building complex where the player's dressing rooms and members of the organization or club owning the ground are hooded. The dressing rooms are normally located in the members' region.

Peach

A delivery bowled by a fast bowler depicted as unplayable, typically a really good delivery that a batsman gets out to, or one that is too superior that the batsmen cannot still edge.

Perfect over

For a bowler, it would be a Maiden Over by scoring all 6 wickets within an over. For a batsman, it would be scoring 36 runs (or more by extras) by scoring all sixes off a single bowler in a single over.

Perfume ball

A bouncer on or just exterior off-stump that overhauls within inches of the batsman's face. So called as the ball is allegedly close sufficient to the batsman's face that he can odor it.

Picket fences

An over in which one run is attained off each delivery. It gazes like picket fences 111111, and so the name.

Pie Chucker (or Pie Thrower)

Poor bowlers, usually of slow to average pace whose deliveries are flighted so much as to appear similar to a pie in the air. Considered easy to score off by batsmen. Famously used by English batsman Kevin Pietersen to describe the part-time left arm orthodox spin of Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh

Pinch hitter

A minor order batsman encouraged up the batting order to enhance the run rate. The phrase, if not the exact sense, is borrowed from baseball.

Pitch

• The rectangular shell in the centre of the turf where most of the act takes place as a rule made of earth or clay. It is 22 yards in length.

• Of the ball, to spring before getting the batsman subsequent to delivery.

• The mark where the ball terrains.

Pitch (It) Up

To bowl a delivery on a fuller span.

Pitch map

A figure screening where a number of balls, regularly from a particular bowler, have pitched.

Placement

The time used to denote the ball hit, such that it bisects or trisects the fielders placed on the field. The ball generally tops up being a four.

Platinum duck

Term used to illustrate being dismissed without even facing a ball - most likely by being run out as the non striker. Also at times called as a Diamond Duck.

Playing on

For the batsman to hit the ball with his bat but only thrived in diverting it onto the stumps. The batsman is thus out bowled. Also recognized as "dragging on" or "chopping on".

Plumb

Of a discharge by LBW: irrefutable, obvious of a wicket, giving correct spring.

Point

A fielding point square of the batsman's off side.

Point of release

The position of the bowler at the second when the ball is unconfined.

Pongo

An era to describe a very high volume of run-making or batting beat up.

Popper

A ball that rises penetratingly from the ground when bowled ('pops up').

Popping crease

One of two lines in the field separate as being four feet in front of and equivalent to that end's bowling crease where the wickets are sited. A batsman who does not have either the bat or some part of his or her body touching the ground following the popping crease is well thought-out out of his ground and is in risk of being sacked run out or stumped.

Powerplay

A block of overs that in One Day Internationals offer a transitory improvement to the batting side.

Pro20

South African form of twenty20

Pro40

The name of a restricted overs competition played in England towards the late summer. Games are approved in group stages with anon knockout stages for the qualifiers. So termed as there are 40 overs per side.

Projapoti A zero rotary motion slower or deviation ball, which when bowled acceptably, moves unpredictably in flight like a butterfly. So named by the Bangladesh bowling coach Ian Pont & fielding coach Julien Fountain as Projapoti means butterfly in Bengali. Protected area A region of the pitch distinct as two feet wide down the middle of the pitch and opening five feet from each popping crease. A bowler is not permitted to intrude this area in his or her follow-through or the bowler is given a warning. Three such warnings will instantaneously bar him or her from bowling for the respite of the innings.

Pull

A shot played to the leg side to a short-hurled delivery, stuck between mid-wicket and to the rear square-leg.

Pursuit

Synonym of run trail.

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