Block hole (cricket), the Glossary
Block hole, also styled as "blockhole" and "block-hole", is a cricket term referring to the part of the crease where the batter’s bat touches the ground, as well as where yorkers bounce.[1]
Table of Contents
8 relations: Batting (cricket), Crease (cricket), Cricket, Cricket bat, Cricket pitch, Glossary of cricket terms, Rob Eastaway, Yorker.
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Batting (cricket)
In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Block hole (cricket) and batting (cricket) are cricket terminology.
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Crease (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, the crease is a certain area demarcated by white lines painted or chalked on the field of play, and pursuant to the rules of cricket they help determine legal play in different ways for the fielding and batting side. Block hole (cricket) and crease (cricket) are cricket terminology.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
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Cricket bat
A cricket bat is a specialised piece of equipment used by batters in the sport of cricket to hit the ball, typically consisting of a cane handle attached to a flat-fronted willow-wood blade.
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Cricket pitch
In the game of cricket, the cricket pitch consists of the central strip of the cricket field between the wickets. Block hole (cricket) and cricket pitch are cricket terminology.
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Glossary of cricket terms
This is a general glossary of the terminology used in the sport of cricket. Block hole (cricket) and glossary of cricket terms are cricket terminology.
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Rob Eastaway
Rob Eastaway is an English author.
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Yorker
In cricket, a yorker is a ball bowled (a delivery) which hits the cricket pitch around the batsman's feet. Block hole (cricket) and yorker are Bowling (cricket) and cricket terminology.
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See also
Cricket terminology stubs
- BS 5993
- Ball gauge
- Block hole (cricket)
- Bowling analysis
- Cricket helmet
- Cricket nets
- Cricket season
- First XI
- Flight (cricket)
- Footwork (cricket)
- Forward defence (cricket)
- Fourth umpire
- Good length ball
- Ground (cricket)
- Kilikiti World Cup
- Kwik cricket
- Leg glance
- Leg side
- List A cricket
- Long hop
- Lost ball
- Match referee
- One-Test wonder
- Overthrow (cricket)
- Playing time (cricket)
- Runner (cricket)
- Selector (cricket)
- Short of a length
- Stump gauge
- The Cricketer
- Toe-crushers
- Windball cricket
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_hole_(cricket)
Also known as Blockhole.