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1.T20
A new form of cricket where – get this – the entire game is usually over in less than four hours. Will it ever catch on?
2. Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method
As if cricket wasn’t already enough of a geek fest, in the mid-90s the sport developed a way to finish matches due to rain using a formula devised by British statisticians Frank Duckworth and Tony. Lewis (who by the way sound like the most British statisticians in history). In 2015, Professor Steven Stern welded his name onto the back and produced a variation of the formula that matches modern playing styles.
Is that fair? Who knows? We don’t have to understand; only to accept the judgments given by the Trinity.
Sachin Tendulkar hated it initially. Fingerspinners have come to love it. Wicketkeepers are now the chief consultants in cricket. Bowlers can no longer truly celebrate an lbw decision or a weak nick until the frames have been checked, the real-time squiggly line has been heard and the on-field umpire has been told when they are on display to the world, like an underwear model on the runway, but much sexier.
4. Rock’n’roll
Referees use this term during the decision-making process to describe the back-and-forth movement of video frames. They deserve to sound cool in a boomer dad way.
Now that we’ve beaten the judges, serious grouse. Over the past decade, umpires have made a habit of walking the field – especially in Sri Lanka and especially during Tests, asking flat bands to quieten down during changeovers so they can hear the nicks better. Don’t take the fun out of the game.
6. Power play
Basically the same as the fielding limit, except that sometimes ODI cricket would experiment with batting when the batting team tended to lose runs and bowling when the bowling team tended to absorb.
7. Franchise Leagues
Like KFC, McDonalds or Subway, except they’re all called Knight Rider.
8. Strategic Timeouts
Given the number of extra penalties handed out in cricket over the past few years, the administrators have apparently decided that the game is being played too slowly. Unless you’re talking about strategic time-outs, which usually last at least two minutes usually twice during a T20 innings and are purely for strategies, so what if the broadcast sells a few extra TV ads during the break, do you hate money? are you a disgusting candy?
9. Squeezing
A term borrowed from baseball, where the term means replacing a hitter in the batting order or something (honestly, this piece is not research heavy, you can look it up yourself). In cricket, it initially meant that Sanath Jayasuriya was about to end some poor man’s career.
10. Death overs
The part of the innings where conventional bowling lengths die and you’re either bowling yorker after yorker (and only if you’re a freak) or you’re bowling seven different slower balls or you’re resigned to the fact that you’re being whipped. round the corner of the cow is your life now.
11. Slower ball
Like regular balls but not as fast but also you have to pretend to bowl fast so it’s like a worse ball than you pretend to bowl.
But the most important thing is that you pretend.
12. Slower ball thrower
Like a bumper, but garbage. (Only works if you have a regular trash can.)
13. Wide Yorker
Yorker, but stacks the outside off and lands it half a meter outside the off stump. (Ask the team analyst if the batter you’re bowling is a scoop shot, and if so, maybe a slower ball Yorker over the off stump with fine leg is the best course of action for you. Or maybe not. Just do whatever the analyst says honestly.)
14. Team analyst
Why don’t you idiot cricketers listen to them?
When the batsman drops down and shovels the ball over his shoulder, like a gravedigger hardening a new coffin space (see Misbah-ul-Haq’s last shot in the 2007 World T20 final). Or will it be the shot that launches T20 cricket into the stratosphere? (See Misbah-ul-Haq’s last shot in the 2007 World T20 final.)
17. Binoculars
Like a scoop, but with more heart. Usually from a long ball. When played correctly, it flies over the goalkeeper. Few have been brave/stupid/dilshan enough to survive it.
When you switch hands and play the ball right-handed even though you are left-handed, or vice versa. Also the name of a decent cricket podcast. I mean, it’s actually pretty good. It’s sometimes hosted by Alan Gardner? Wow! Instant order.
Some device they put in the gates so we can hear our favorite cricketers cursing crystal clear. Also another great podcast. God I hope I get a raise on this level of corporate shilling.
When cricketers conspire to fix the score of one ball in a game. Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were caught doing it and went to jail. Lou Vincent came down the track in an Indian Cricket League match and accidentally hit a six ball he was trying to get out.
21. Doosra
The offspinner is a googly. Haters gonna hate.
22. Carrom ball
Offspinner’s googly, which is easier to read from the hand.
23. Hyperextension
The thing that happens to fast fast bowlers, people have accused of chucking, but it turns out they do the opposite of sitting – they bend their elbows the other way.
India-England-Australia. Axis of Cricket Evil. Or just the inevitable vessels of cricket’s capitalist march. Which position you take usually depends on whether you have your mouth attached to one of their money tubes.
25. Back flip
A completely unacceptable phenomenon that malicious practitioners pretend is innovation. Oh, the traditional cricketing powers that be have figured out how to do that? Well yes, how amazingly wonderful! Reverse swing is a great testament to the evolution of cricketing skills and a celebration of what makes the sport so dynamic and mesmerizing.
26. Pinkball tests
Okay so great, cricket still mostly uses the term ‘batsman’. But we play some matches with a pink ball. Isn’t that enough for you feminists?
27. SENATE
South Africa, England, New Zealand, Australia: countries where the ball seams and bounces and usually takes a derisive orbit of the South Asian batsmen before adopting an edge and leaping into the hands of a delighted fielder.
Words that have fallen out of favor
28. Pitch doctoring
It used to be frowned upon to craft stripes specifically to disadvantage your opponent. But now almost everyone does it.
Why? Because twist the opposition, that’s why.
29. Chinese
Perhaps the title of the greatest cricket book ever written. So we’re retiring this season, like the jersey of a great NBA player.
30. Blackwash
Is it because it’s not cool to say “blackwashing” anymore or because the West Indies don’t tend to crush Test opposition anymore? Either way, you won’t hear it.
Andrew Fidel Fernando is ESPNcricinfo’s Sri Lanka correspondent. @afidelf
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