CRICKET JARGONS : "D"

Daisy cutter
Once a ball rolls the length of the pitch or springs up more than 2 times.
Dead ball
The condition of play in flanked by deliveries, in which batsmen may not score runs or be given out. Termed when the ball becomes wedged in the batsman's clothing or equipment. Termed when the ball is (or is about to be) bowled as the batsman is not yet ready. Described when a bowler terminates his run up devoid of making a delivery. Entitled when the batsmen try to run leg-byes after the ball has struck the batsman's body, but is considered to have not opened a shot.
Dead bat
The bat when apprehended with a light grab such that it gives when the ball strikes it and the ball loses force and falls to the position.
Death overs
The last 10 overs in a one-day match, in which most bowlers are, frequently, hit for lots of runs. Also notorious as Slog Overs. Bowlers who bowl through the death overs are said to "bowl at the death"
Declaration
The work of a captain willingly bringing his side's innings to a close, in the principle that their score is now large enough to avert defeat. Happens almost absolutely in timed forms of cricket where a draw is a feasible result (such as first class cricket), in classify that the side stating have sufficient time to bowl the opponent out and so win.
Declaration bowling
A turn of phrase used to explain intentionally poor bowling (Full tosses and Long hops) from the fielding side to allow the batsman to score runs rapidly and give confidence the opposing captain to affirm.
Defensive field
A fielding pattern in which fielders are spread roughly the field so as to more readily stop hit balls and reduce the amount of runs (particularly boundaries) being scored by batsmen, at the cost of fewer prospects to take catches and dismiss batsmen.
Delivery
The work of bowling the ball.
Devil's number (also Dreaded number)
A score of 87, observed as doomed in Australian cricket. According to Australian false notion, batsmen have an affinity to be dismissed for 87. The false notion is thought to initiate from the fact that 87 is 13 runs short of a century. The English comparable is Nelson.
Diamond duck
Regional custom varies, but each dismissal (typically run out) devoid of facing a delivery or a discharge (for zero) off the initial ball of a team's innings (the fewer common term platinum duck is second-hand interchangeably).
Dibbly Dobbly
A bowler of restricted skill. A relief that is easy to hit.
Dilscoop
A hit where a batsman goes on one knee and hits a good extent or a little short of length ball immediately over the wicket keeper's head frequently to the boundary or over it. Demonstrated at the world stage by Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan through the ICC World Twenty20 in June 2009 and called after him. In addition a speciality of New Zealand Blackcaps wicket keeper batsman Brendon McCullum.
Dink
A tender shot.
Dipper
An escape bowled which curves into or not here from the batsman before pitching.
Dismiss
To obtain one of the batsmen out so as to he must cease batting.
Direct hit
A throw from a fieldsman that directly strikes and puts down a wicket (without first being caught by a fieldsman standing at the stumps). Occurs when attempting a run out.
Dolly
A very easy catch.
Donkey Drop
A ball with a very elevated trajectory former to bouncy
Doosra
A comparatively new off spin release urbanized by Saqlain Mushtaq; the finger spin counterpart of the googly, in that it spins the "wrong way". From the Hindi or Urdu for second or other. Muttiah Muralitharan is a proficient bowler of doosra. First created by Pakistani wicket keeper Moin Khan.
Dot ball
A delivery bowled not including any runs scored off it, so called because it is witnessed in the score order with a single dot.
Double
In general the scoring of a 1000 runs and the taking of 100 wickets in the same period.
Double Hat-trick
Captivating four wickets in four successive balls .Former Hampshire team member kevin James is the only player in first class cricket's record to take a double hat-trick and score a century in the same game, attained in opposition to India at Southampton in 1996. Sri Lankan fast bowler Lasith Malinga is the single international player to have taken a double hat-trick, in opposition to South Africa in the 2007 world cup.
Down the Pitch (also Down the Wicket)
Describing the motion of a batsman towards the bowler prior to or for the period of the delivery, made in the wish of turning a good length ball into a half-volley.
Draw
A result in timed matches where the team batting last is not all out, but fails to surpass their opponent's total. Not to be perplexed with a tie, in which the side batting last is all out or run out of overs with the scores rank. An outdated stroke that has fall into abandonment, it was formerly a purposeful shot that look like the Chinese cut – the ball being played among one's own legs.
Draw stumps
Announce the game over; an allusion to drawing the stumps from the group by the umpire.
Drift
The slight cross curved-path faction that a spinner pulls out even as the ball is in flight. Well thought-out to be a very good bowling.
Drinks
A tiny break in play, commonly taken in the middle of a session, when food and drink are brought out to the players and umpires by the twelfth men of all side. Drinks breaks do not at all times take place, but they are common in test matches, principally in hot countries.
Drinks waiter
A playful term for the twelfth man, referring to his job of fetching out drinks.
Drive
A great shot usually hit along the ground or at times in the air in a direction amid cover point on the off side and mid-wicket on the leg side or in an arc stuck between roughly thirty degrees each side of the direction along the pitch.
Drop
The inadvertent "dropping" of a ball that was primarily caught by a fielder, as a result denying the dismissal of the batsman; when such an occasion occurs, the batsman is said to have been "dropped". The amount of dismissals which happen in a squad’s innings before a given batsman goes in to bat; a batsman batting at 'first drop' is batting at number three in the batting order, going in after one wicket has fallen.
Drop in Pitch
A short-term pitch that is sophisticated off-site from the ground which also permits other sports to distribute the use of the field with less option of injury to the players.
DRS
Common acronym for the Umpire Decision Review scheme.
Duck
A batsman's score of nil (zero) sacked, as in "he was out for a duck." It can pass on to a score of nil not out at some point in an innings, as in "she hasn't got off her duck yet", but in no way refers to a finished innings score of nil not out. Initially called a "duck's egg" for the reason that of the "0" shape in the scorebook.
Duck under delivery
A short pitched release that emerges to be a bouncer, building the striker duck to evade from being hit; but as a replacement for of bouncing high, it has a low bounce which sources the batsman to be dismissed LBW, or sporadically bowled.
Duck worth Lewis Method
An accurately based law that derives a target gain for the side batting second in a rain-affected one-day match.