Bermuda Cricket Terms Explained as seen on LookBermuda.TV

[kennetteburgess]

Golden Ducks are my favs..0 runs, 1st bowl out

HOWZAAAATTT!!!!???

I knew atleast 8 of these terms

St. George's, we taking 2010

[kennetteburgess]

Golden Duck---first bowled ball out, 0 runs

HOWZAAATT??

ST. George's 2010 victory

[Eldoradobologna1932]

Cricket is the national sport in Bermuda!

[cricketcrazyguy]

we play the real cricket :) we dont fight like other cricketers and fans!!!

[LGD3]

Sticky Wicket - Back in the days, the playing surfaces were left uncovered overnight, so if it rained during the night, it became wet. As it dried the wicket became 'sticky' which was hazardous to the batting team. Multiple day games these days are played on 'covered pitches', so you don't find sticky wickets much any more.

[LookBermudaTV]

thanks!

[LGD3]

Duck - Sometime in the history of the game, people started referring to a final individual score of 0, as a duck's egg. Eventually it became simply a 'duck'.

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Creases - Creases are the white lines on the patch of bare earth in the centre of the ground where the main action takes place.

[LGD3]

Yorker - Search for 'Waqar Younis Yorker' on YouTube. They are fast deliveries of the ball which bounce just near (or on) the batsman's toes. Many weaker batsman are afraid of losing their toes and they instinctively back away thus exposing their stumps, and are often bowled out.

[LGD3]

Googly - A leg-break bounces and spins away in a particular direction (left). An off-break bouces and spins away in the opposite direction (right). Someone who normally bowls leg-breaks might want to bowl an off-break disquised as a leg-break. That's when he bowls a googly. An Englishman named Basanquet was the first to do it. In 1903 a New Zealand newspaper described the deliveries as Bosanquet's 'googley ones'. The name stuck, even if some Australians call them 'Bosies'.

[LGD3]

Chinaman - Pretty much a mirror image of a right arm bowler's leg-break. That is, it's bowled by left arm bowlers and spins in the opposite direction to a right-armer's leg-break. It was invented by a West Indian (Carribbean) bowler of Chinese decent. Someone playing for England or possibly Yorkshire, once remarked 'Fancy getting out to a chinaman!'. The name stuck.

[LGD3]

Night-watchman - On multiple day games, when the light starts to fade, if a wicket falls, instead of the regular next batsman, a captain may decide to send in a weaker batsman whose job it is to not get out till the day ends (he doesn't have to score any runs). This way the regular batsman who has the potential to score a lot of runs in good light is protected till the next morning. The wisdom of sending in a night-watchman is debatable.

[atmclick]

It's all Somerset this year

[lostinthetriangle]

Oh I just have to favorite this!

[cupmatch]

Let's go St. Geo!!!