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Appeal

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Boundary line

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Bowling crease

Bye

Captain

Catch

Caught and bowled

Century

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Cricket

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Dead ball

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Duckworth-Lewis

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Extra

Fall of wicket

Fine leg

Flipper

Follow on

Forward defensive

Four

Full toss

Golden duck

Googly

Grubber

Guard

Gully

Half-century

Handling the ball

Hat trick

Helmet

How’s that?

Innings

Kit

LBW

Leg glance

Leg stump

Leg-before-wicket

Leg-break

Leg-bye

Limited-overs match

Lofted drive

Long off

Long on

Long Room

Lord’s

Lunch

Maiden

MCC

Medium pace

Mid-off

Mid-wicket

Middle stump

New ball

Off side

Off stump

Off-break

On side

One-day match

Outfield

Over the wicket

Overthrows

Pad

Pitch

Play

Playing on

Popping crease

Return crease

Round the wicket

Run

Run out

Runner

Shooter

Short run

Sight screen

Silly mid-on

Silly Point

Six

Sledging

Slip

Spinner

Sticky wicket

Stone-walling

Strike rate

Stumping

Stumps

Substitutes

Sweep

Tea

Teams

Test match

Test series

Third man

Third official

Time

Toss

Twelfth man

Umpire

WACA

Wicket

Wicket-keeper

Wide

Yorker

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