CRICKET JARGONS : "S"

Sawn off
A batsman who has been erroneously or fatefully given out by an umpire.
Scorer
Somebody who attains the growth of the game. Runs, wickets, extras and so on.
Seam
The darning on the ball.
Seam bowling
A bowling approach which uses the irregular conditions of the ball – particularly the heaved seam – to build it diverge upon bouncing off the ground.
Selector
An individual who is allotted with the chore of choosing players for a cricket squad. Normally the period is used in the environment of player selection for national, provincial and further delegate squads at the specialized levels of the game, where a "panel of selectors" acts under the ability of the relevant national or provincial cricket executive body.
Session
A time of play, from initiate to lunch, lunch to tea and tea until stumps.
Sephard the strike (also farm the hit)
Of a batsman, contrive to receive the majority of the balls bowled, often to protect a weaker batting partner.
Shooter
A delivery that slides after diving (i.e. doesn't bounds as high as would be estimated), regularly at a quicker tempo, ensuing in a batsman powerless to strike the ball modestly.
Short-pitched
A delivery that springs moderately close to the bowler. The goal is to make the ball jump well above waist height (a bouncer). A slow or low-bouncing short-pitched ball is well-known as a long hop.
Shot
The work of the batsman striking the ball with his bat.
Side on
A side on bowler has back foot, chest and hips associated towards the batsman at the spot of back foot contact.   A batsman is side on if his hips and shoulders are facing at ninety scales to the bowler.
Sightscreen
A large board positioned behind the bowler, away from the boundary, used to offer contrast to the ball, by this means assisting the striker in considering the ball when it is delivered. Normally colored white to contrast a red ball or black to distinguish a white ball.
Silly
A modifier to the names of a few fielding point to represent that they are strangely close to the batsman, most frequently silly mid-off, silly mid-on, silly midwicket and silly point.
Single
A run gained by the batsmen actually running once only amid the wickets.
Sitter
An effortless catch (or sporadically a stumping) that should in general be in use.
Six (or sixer)
A shot which passes over or touches the margin without having jumped or rolled, so termed because it scores six runs to the batting side.
Skier
An untimely shot knock almost straight up in the air, to the sky. As a rule results in the batsman being wedged out. Rarely though the fielder positions himself absolutely to take the catch but misses it or drops it. Such a slip is well thought-out thwarting for the fielder.
Skipper
Used synonymously with skipper.
Sky line
Another name for Manhattan.
Slash
A cut, but played assertively or possibly heedlessly – a cut being a shot played square on the off side to a short-pitched delivery wide of off base. So described because the batsman makes a "cutting" movement as he plays the shot.
Sledging
Verbal abuse in plain terms, or a emotional tactic in more difficult terms. Used by cricketers both on and off the field to gain improvement of the opposition by annoying them and breaking the attention of the opposition. Considered in some cricketing countries to be in opposition to the spirit of the game, even though occasional sledging remains common.
Slice
A sort of cut shot played with the bat making an imperceptive angle with the batsman.
Slip
A secure fielder following the batsman, subsequently to the wicket-keeper on the off-side. There can be as loads of as four slips for a faster bowler. Moreover ("in the slips", "at first slip") the positions engaged by such fielders.
Slipper
A player who focus in fielding in the slips e.g. "Gubby charges our cricketing Prime Minister as having been a distinctly good slipper, as well as a useful away swing bowler and a determined bat."
Slog
A powerful shot, typically knock in the air in an effort to score a six, frequently without too much apprehension for proper system.
Slog overs
The final 10 overs (mostly the last five) in an ODI match throughout which batsmen play insistently scoring at a very soaring rate.
Slog sweep
A sweep shot strike hard and in the air, more than the same boundary as for a hook. Used totally in opposition to spin bowlers. A form of slog.
Slogger
A batsman who strikes a lot of slogs.
Slower ball
A medium-pace delivery bowled by a rapid bowler. Intended to swindle the batsman into playing the ball too early and skying it to a fielder. Have numerous distinctions.
Slow left armer
A left-arm, traditional, finger spin bowler; the left-handed equivalent of an off spinner..Bowlers such as Monty Panesar and Daniel Vettori are deliberate left armers.
Snick (also edge)
A minor digression of the ball off the edge of the bat. Top, bottom, inside and outside edges represent the four edges of the bat.
Snickometer
A tool used to compute the discrete sound generated when a batsman snicks the ball. The discrete sound is revealed as a high spike (like one created by a seismograph in an earthquake) on the Snick-o-Meter. At times called snicko.
Specialist
A player preferred in the side mainly for a single skill, i.e. not an all-rounder or a wicketkeeper-batsman. Such players can be depicted as expert batsmen, expert bowlers or professional wicketkeepers.
Spectacles
One more word for a pair. From the emergence of two ducks on the scorecard as 0-0. Two first ball ducks in the same game may be termed a pair of golden spectacles.
Spell
The figure of continuous overs a bowler bowls before being comforted.   The total amount of overs that a bowler bowls in an innings.
Spider graph
Alike to a Wagon Wheel, where special colored lines are drawn to where a batsman has strike the ball during his innings. This collects into a spider looking graph. Each sum of runs, 1's, 2's etc. are symbolized with a separate color. This can demonstrate which stroke(s) each batsman is leading at eg. Matthew Hayden would have a tough down the ground graph with many 4's immediately of the wicket.
Spin bowling
A method of bowling in which a spin bowler ("spinner") attempts to mislead the batsman by conveying spin on the ball using both their fingers and their wrist. Spin bowling is most efficient when the ball is travelling reasonably slowly, and so most spinners bowl at a speed between 40 and 55 mph.
Splice
The joint among the handle and the blade of a bat; the weakest element of the bat. If the ball strikes the links it is expected to dolly up for a simple catch.
Square
Of a point on the field, at right angles to the line of the pitch; the reverse of fine.   The region in the middle of the ground where the pitches are equipped.
Square-cut
A incise shot, played square, i.e. vertical to the bowler's delivery.
Stance (also batting stance)
The pose of a batsman embracing his bat when facing a delivery.
Stand (noun)
A synonym for affiliation.
Stand (verb)
An umpire who presides a cricket game is explained as standing in that game.
Standing up
Point espoused by a wicket -keeper, close to the stumps, when a slow (or, sporadically, medium pace) bowler is in use.
Start
A batsman is said to have a launch when he profitably avoids being released for very few runs; in Australia, this is in general tacit to mean a score of twenty runs. Once a batsman endures this first period and becomes recognized, batting normally becomes easier as he has developed into a rhythm and has personalized to the playing conditions and is less susceptible, so they are then projected to adapt their starts into big scores.
Steaming in
A bowler enchanting a fast run-up to bowl is said to be searing in.
Sticky dog
A freshening wicket that is extremely complex to bat on. Scarce if not non-existent in current years due to the usual covering of arena.
Sticky wicket
A complex wet arena.
Stock bowler
A bowler whose role is to confine scoring quite than to take wickets. Regularly called upon to bowl large quantity of overs at a miserable run rate while smack bowlers rest amid spells or try to take wickets from the other end.
Stock delivery (also stock ball)
A bowler's average delivery; the delivery a bowler bowls most habitually. Bowlers generally have one stock delivery and one or more disparity deliveries.
Stodger
A batsman who makes it his career to defend and to score at a ordinary rate. This mode is prone to offensive comments but also respects on flexibility and system.
Stonewaller
A batsman who plays protectively pretty than trying to score.
Straight bat
The bat when held up and down or when swung during a vertical arc.
Straight up-and-down
Critical name used to express a fast or medium paced bowler who cannot hang or joint the ball.
Strangler
A type of dismissal whereby a batsman, in annoying to play a glimpse very fine to a leg-side ball, gets an inside edge which is trapped by the wicket-keeper.
Street
A ground which is easy for batsmen and tricky for bowlers. Occasionally described a road, highway, and a range of other synonyms for street.
Strike
The place as batsman, as disparate to non striker. Frequently, 'Keep [the] strike', to organize runs on the last ball of an over so as to face the first ball of the next. 'Shepherd the Strike': to keep doing this to guard a less clever batsman.
Strike bowler
An offensive bowler whose task is to take wickets rather than to curb scoring. Generally a fast bowler or aggressive spinner who bowls in short spells to offensive field settings.
Strike rate
(Batting) a profit equal to the number of runs scored by a batsman separated by the number of balls faced.   (Bowling) the standard number of deliveries bowled ahead of a bowler obtains a wicket.
Striker
The batsman who faces the rescues bowled.
Stroke
A stab by the batsman to play at a rescue.
Stump
one of the three plumb posts making up the wicket ("off stump", "middle stump" and "leg stump");   a mode of discharging a batsman; or   (" Stumps") the last part of a day's play.
Sun ball
A process of bowling where the ball is deliberately bowled at a great pinnacle and a lethargic pace. This is done to disrupt the batsman's field of apparition using the suns rays often causing catastrophic consequences such as rounded hits to the head.
Sundry ( also extra)
A run not accredited to any batsman, such as a bye, wide or no-ball.
Super sub
Under trial One-Day International system commenced in July 2005, the twelfth man became a replacement able to come on and restore any player, with the substitute capable to take over the substituted player's batting and bowling tasks. A twelfth man used as an alternate in this way was acknowledged as the super sub. The first super sub was Vikram Solanki, who reinstated Simon Jones at Headingly on 7 July 2005.
Surrey cut (also chinese cut or french cut or Harrow drive
An inside edge, frequently from a drive which scarcely misses striking the stumps. The ball repeatedly runs downward to fine leg.
Sweep
A blast played to a good span slow delivery. The batsman gets along on one knee and "sweeps" the ball to the strut side.
Sweep spot
The tiny region on the face of the bat that gives utmost power for minimum attempt when the ball is smack with it. Also identified as the "middle" or "meat" of the bat. A blast that is struck with the charming speck is referred to as being "well timed".
Sweep
A shot common played to spinners, where the bat is played level and low to the earth in an effort to clean the ball in the region of the back of the legs.
Swing
A bowling style regularly engaged by fast and medium-pace bowlers. The fielding side will shine the ball on one side of the ridge only; as the innings persists, the ball will turn into worn on one side, but shiny on the other. When the ball is bowled with the ridge upright, the air will move faster over the glittery side than the shabby side. This makes the ball rock (curve) in the atmosphere. Straight sway would designate that the ball curls in the air away from the glittery side
Switch hit
A blast played by a batsman who quashes both his posture and his grip during the bowler's run-up, so that a right-handed batsman would play the shot as a traditional left-hander. The turn was popularized by England batsman Kevin Pietersen, without delay some exchange about its impact on the rules, e.g. for lbw assessments in which it is needed to choose among off and leg stumps.

 

 

COCA COLA Tournament 2013-14 : SALEM Centre

Day 1 (14^th November 2013)

Ground : Neelambal Subramaniam HSS / Match 1

RAMALINGA VALLAR SCHOOL 136 FOR 6 WK IN 20 OVERS (SANTHOSH 43 , C.ADHARASH 3 FOR 14)

LOST TO

GLAZEBROKKES SCHOOL  139 FOR 6 IN 16.2 OVERS (S.K.THARUN 33 )

Ground : Neelambal Subramaniam HSS / Match 2

SRI VIDYAMANDIR SCHOOL SHEVAPET 108 ALL OUT IN 19.5 OVERS (R.PRIYADARSAN 3 FOR 11)

LOST TO

SENGUTHAR SCHOOL 112 FOR 3 WK IN 14.5 OVERS ( ARAVIND 55 )

Ground : Salem Steel Plant / Match 1

J.R.CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL 44 ALL OUT IN 17.5 OVERS (ARUN 5 FOR 7 )

LOST TO

GOLDEN GATES SCHOOL 45 FOR 1 WK IN 5.1 OVERS (MADAN 26)  

Ground : Salem Steel Plant / Match 2

GOV. BOYS ATTAYAMPATTI 56 ALL OUT IN 13 OVERS (RANJITH 3 FOR 4 , RAHUL 3 FOR 6 )

LOST TO

SRI VIDYAMANDIR STEEL PLANT 57 FOR 1 WK IN 6 OVERS ( MEGANATHAN 34 )

Day 2 (15^th November 2013)

Ground : Neelambal Subramaniam HSS / Match 1

MEENAMPARK SCHOOL 112 ALL OUT IN 23 OVERS (K.KARTHIK 3 FOR 16 )

LOST TO

MUNICIPAL BOYS AMMAPET 113 FOR 3 WK IN OVERS 11 OVERS (V.VIGNESH 32 )

Ground : Neelambal Subramaniam HSS / Match 2

EMERALD VALLEY SCHOOL 90 ALL OUT IN 22 OVERS

LOST TO

NEELAMBAL SCHOOL 91 FOR 5 WK IN 11 OVERS

Day 3 (21^st November 2013)– QUARTER FINALS

Ground : Neelambal Subramaniam HSS / QF 1

SRI VIDYAMANDIR MEYYANOR 138 FOR 9 WK IN 20 OVERS (S.JASVANTH 31, ARAVIND 3 FOR 35 )

BEAT

SENGUNTHAR SCHOOL 70 FOR 7 WK IN 20 OVERS (MOHAMMED 3 FOR 18 )

Ground : Neelambal Subramaniam HSS / QF 2

NEELAMBAL SCHOOL 140 FOR 7 WK IN 25 OVERS ( BALACHANDER 35 , S.BAVESH 3 FOR 21)

BEAT

GLAZZE BROKKES SCHOOL 126 FOR 9 WK IN 25 OVERS (SATHISH KUMAR 5 FOR 16 , KUMAR 4 FOR 30 )

Ground : Salem Steel Plant / QF 3

GOLDENGATES SCHOOL 86 ALL OUT IN 20 OVERS (S.PRAVAHAN 41 , B.DEVENDARAN 3 FOR 10 )

BEAT

MUNICIBAL BOYS AMMAPET 67 ALL OUT IN 19.1 OVERS (SURYAPRAKASH 3 FOR 17 ) 

Ground : Salem Steel Plant / QF 4

SRI VIDYA MANDIR STEELPLANT 89 FOR 8 WK IN 20 OVERS

LOST TO

HOLY CROSS 92 FOR 6 WK IN 18.1 OVERS (SACHINRAJ 38)

Day 4 : SEMI FINALS : 22.11.2013 (Friday) / Ground : Salem Steel Plant

GOLDEN GATES MHSS 77 ALLOUT IN 20 OVERS (S.PRAVAHAN 31, S.VIGNESH 4 FOR 7, MITHUN BALAJI 4 FOR 14)

LOST TO

HOLYCROSS MHSS 78 FOR 1 IN 12.5 OVERS (J.SURYA 31 NOTOUT)

NEELAMBAL SUBRAMANIAM HSS 67 ALLOUT IN 20 OVERS (S.S.JASVANTH 4 FOR 12, SASTHEESWARAN 3 FOR 15)

LOST TO

SRI VIDYA MANDIR HSS, ANANDHASRAMAM 68 FOR 1 IN 10 OVERS (S.SHARUN KUMAR 31 NOTOUT)

Day 5 : FINALS : 23.11.2013 (Saturday) / Ground : Salem Steel Plant

SRI VIDYA MANDIR HSS, ANANDHASRAMAM 139 ALLOUT IN 25 OVERS (S.S.JASVANTH 65, M.VIGNESH 2 FOR 23)

BEAT

HOLYCROSS MHSS 137 FOR 3 IN 25 OVERS (J.SURYA 74, S.SHARUN KUMAR 2 FOR 26)

The finals of the COCA COLA Inter Schools (Under 16) tournament of the SALEM leg was held at the Salem Steel Plant ground on 23.11.2013. Sri Vidya Mandir HSS, Anandhasramam won the trophy beating Holycross MHSS by 2 RUNS. Shri.R.S.Ramasaamy, Assistant Secretary, Tamilnadu Cricket Association gave the Winners Trophy and Shri.C.M.Thangavelu, Treasurer, Salem District Cricket Association gave the runner up trophy. The Man of the Final was Shri. J.Surya of Holycross MHSS for his knock of 74

CRICKET JARGONS : "R"

Rabbit
I. A predominantly bad batsman, habitually a dedicated bowler. A "rabbit" frequently seems uncertain of how he should even hold his bat, as exemplified by Phil Tufnell, Allan Donald, Courtney Walsh, Glenn McGrath and Chris martin. II. The phrase is also worn for a higher order batsman who is out often to the same bowler, though then most frequently in the form bunny; for instance, Ricky Ponting is sometimes depicted by reporters as "Harbhajan bunny".
Rain Rule
Any of diverse methods of determining which side wins a rain-shortened one-day match. The recent preferred system is the Duckworth-Lewis method.
Red cherry
Pet name for the red cricket ball.
Referral
A method which allows for batsmen or fielding captains to demand an umpiring choice to the third umpire. Tranquil in the experimental stage and not now used for all Test series.
Reserve day
A free day in a touring agenda which can be used to play again or reconvene a game which is washed out. Mostly seen in the final stages of major limited-overs competitions.
Rest day
A non-playing day in the center of a multiple day match. These were once ordinary, but are not often seen in the recent period.
Retire
For a batsman to freely depart the field during his innings, as a rule as of injury. A player who gives up work through injury/illness ("retreat hurt/ill") may revisit in the similar innings at the fall of a wicket, and carry on where he left off. A player who is intact ("retired out “) may come again only with the opposing captain's approval.
Reverse sweep
A right handed batsman all-encompassing the ball like a left handed batsman and vice-versa.
Reverse swing
The ability of fluctuating the ball opposite to how a conventionally swung ball moves in the air; i.e. faction away from the rough side. Several theories as to how this may happen. Generally happens with an older ball than straight swing, but not forever, atmospheric conditions and bowler talent also being significant factors. It has been adopted that once the 'rough' side becomes enormously rough a similar outcome to that of a dimpled golf ball may cause it to move more promptly through the air than the 'shiny' side of the ball. Made-up by Pakistani fast bowler Sarfaraz Nawaz and later ideal by the likes of Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.
Rib Tickler
Balls bowled short of a span that spring up higher than expected and hits the batsman in the midriff (frequently the side) and strike numerous ribs. Not a good ball to play.
Ringfield
A ground which is set mainly to save singles, consisting of fieldsmen in all or most of the chief positions to the fore of the wicket, on or about the fielding circle (or wherever it would be).
Road
An incredibly solid and flat hurl, good for batting on.
Rogers
The 2nd XI of a union or province. Since the Warwickshire and New Zealand team member Roger Twose.
Roller
A cylindrical put into service used to compress the arena before play.
Rotate the strike
To gaze to make singles everywhere possible, in order to make certain that both batsmen are repeatedly facing deliveries and building runs. The reverse of farming the strike.
Rough
A worn-down division of the field, frequently due to bowlers' footmarks, from which spinners are capable to attain more twirl.
Round arm bowling
The sort of bowling deed in which the bowler's widely spread hand is at right angles to his body when he liberates the ball. Encompassing arm bowling is lawful in cricket.
Ruby Duck
A duck when sacked devoid of facing a ball. E.g. run out devoid of facing or bewildered off a wide on the first ball faced.
Run chase
The work/charge of the side batting second (in a limited-overs game) or batting fourth (in an unconstrained overs game), annoying to win a game by batting and outshining the runs gathered by the opponent.
Run out
Discharge by a portion of the fielding side flouting the wicket while the batsman is outside his/her groove in the method of making a run.
Run rate
The standard figure of runs scored per over.
Runner
A player of the batting side supporting an injured batsman in running among the wickets. The sprinter must dress in and carry the same tools and both the wounded batsman and the runner can be run out the wounded batsman having to hang about in his position.

 

 

RESULTS of LEAGUE MATCHES HELD on 24.11.2013

Ground : Neelambal Subramaniam HSS – Division : I “A”

Salem Kings CC 180 allout in 45 Overs (T.Natarajan 42 notout, R.Sivashankar 32 notout, M.Ramu 3 for 16)

Drew with

Tigers “B” 83 for 4 in 11.3 Overs (M.Sathyamurthy 41, T.Natarajan 3 for 26)

Points Shared as the match was abandoned due to rain.

Ground : Salem Steel Plant – Division : I “B”

Steels RC 134 allout in 42 Overs (S.Boopalan 3 for 11, T.Suresh Kumar 3 for 25)

Drew with

Students “Seniors” CC

Points Shared as the match was abandoned due to rain.

Ground : Periyar University “A” – Division : I “A”

Ruff Krudoz XI 201 allout in 45 Overs (M.Arul Kumar 47, K.Anandhan 5 for 27)

Beat

Liberty CC 169 allout in 45 Overs (R.Pradip Kumar 30, N.Rikesh Kumar 50,  K.Sivashankar 3 for 33, K.Abilesh 3 for 28)

Ground : Periyar University “B” – Division : III

S.K.Murugan CC w/o Achievers CC

Ground : Monforts School – Division : III

Monforts School 130 allout in 20 Overs (M.Palaniappan 46, Senthil Kumar 38, V.Venkatesh 4 for 32)

Beat

Kannan Memorial CC 117 for 7 in 20 Overs (T.Srinivasan 50, Karun James Phillips 4 for 12)

CRICKET JARGONS : "Q"

Queen Pair
A batsman who obtains out for zero runs off the second ball he faces in both innings of a two-innings game. However not a standard cricketing term, Geoffrey Boycott has used the word often adequate that it may be come across in cricket commentary.
Quick
Conventionally, a rapid bowler was one who accomplished his over in a short gap of time. In more recent times, it has been used as a synonym for a fast or pace bowler. (Absurdly, a fast bowler in the conventional sense was often also a slow bowler, that is, a bowler who conveyed slow deliveries. A fast or pace bowler was not often also a quick bowler in the usual sense, as he took a longer point to complete an over.)
Quota
The entire number of overs (maximum 10) agreed to a bowler in an ODI, or any restricted overs match. Normally total overs in the innings alienated by 5, rounded to next top integer.

 

 

CRICKET JARGONS : "P"

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
Defensive tools for batsmen and wicket-keepers, casing the legs.
Pad away or pad-play
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.