TECHNICAL JARGONS

Cricket Jargons

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Waft

• A wobbly non-committal shot often played to a ball pitched short of span and well open of the off stump. He drifted at that and snicked it to the 'keeper.

• The V-shaped shared amid the lower end of the grip and the blade of the bat.

Wag

When tail-enders attains more runs than they are anticipated to (the back wagged).

Wagon wheel

A graphical chart which splits a cricket ground into six sectors (appearing like the spokes of a wagon style wheel), and shows how many runs a batsman has achieved into each region.

Walk

Of a batsman, to walk off the ground, knowing or believing that he is out, rather than waiting for an adjudicator to give him out (forfeiting the option that the umpire may give the assistance of the doubt concerning a dismissal if he is not confident that the batsman is out). Commonly considered to be sporting activities though gradually more unusual in international cricket.

Walking wicket

A very poor batsman, mostly tail-end batsmen, who are generally professional bowlers. Statistically, any batsman averaging fewer than 5. Also used to refer to a generally good batsman who is in very poor type.

Wash out

A cricket game or an explicit day of a cricket game, which is dumped with either no play or very petite play due to rain.

Wearing wicket

On a turf pitch, normally consisting of dry/lifeless grass on the top, the soil can be slacken because of the players, stepping on it throughout play, and rough, coarse patches can form. This means that as the ground wears, or becomes tattered, balls that land in these uneven areas will grip the shell more and turn more severely, thereby fetching more helpful to spin bowling. Bumpy bounce can also effect.

Wicket

• A set of stumps and bails;

• the arena; or

• The discharge of a batsman.

Wicket - keeper

The player on the fielding side who stands instantly behind the batting end wicket. An individual position, used all through the game.

Wicket-keeper/batsman

A wicket-keeper who is also a very fine batsman, accomplished of opening the batting or at least making good scores in the peak order.

Wicket maiden

A maiden over in which the bowler also discharges a batsman. A double wicket maiden if two wickets are in use, and so on.

Wicket to wicket

A fantasy line linking the two wickets, also a mode of instantly, un-varied bowling.

Wide

A delivery that exceeds illicitly wide of the wicket, scoring an extra for the batting side. A wide does not count as one of the six suitable deliveries that must be made in each over � an additional ball must be bowled for each wide.

Wood

A bowler who always dismisses a firm batsman without being scored off significantly is said to "have the wood" over that player.

Worm

A conspire of either the collective runs scored, or the progressive run rate accomplished by a squad (the y-axis) in opposition to the over number (x-axis) in limited-overs cricket.

Wrong foot

When the bowling foot is the front foot the relief is said to be bowled off the wrong foot. Such a bowler is said to bowl off the mistaken foot.

Wrong footed

When the batsman is primarily moving either back or forward to a delivery and then has to suddenly modify which foot he uses (back or front), he is said to have been wrong-footed. Frequently relates to spin bowling.

Wrong 'un

Another term for a googly; most familiar in Australia.

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