Cricketing words and phrases that we don't understand and don't like

[cnerd123]

It's basic division. Runs / wickets = batting or bowling average

What are you calculating by doing it the other way around?

 

[Gnske]

Chinaman

I like, need to take a deep breath every time I say it, like the comfort of my emotional-support Platypus is like barely enough for me to stomach looking at the word, like let alone say it. So much UGH, like you know what I mean?

 

[straw man]

'up the ante' is particularly eye-roll worthy

 

[Flem274*]

'batter'

its batsman, you chump

 

[ankitj]

I don't think anyone knows what a proper arm ball actually is anymore.

I hear one SA commentator use that phrase to describe a dismissal off a fast bowler in the second test. Absolutely dire.

That's funny. I don't know why an off spinner's straight one is called "arm ball". I mean, are other balls bowled without an arm? I know it should not piss me as much as it does.

 

[ankitj]

'batter'

its batsman, you chump

You ***ist moron. Get rid of your patriarchy, misogyny and male privilege.

 

[Daemon]

Guilty pleasure of mine is how Danny Morrison calls Chittagong the "Gong".

 

[Burgey]

Stolen from the venue for today's Sheffield Shield match between NSW and Qld.

 

[GRAB]

Guilty pleasure of mine is how Danny Morrison calls Chittagong the "Gong".

Sweet as!

 

[Gnske]

Guilty pleasure of mine is how Danny Morrison calls Chittagong the "Gong".

Better than that other ****hole that gets called 'The Gong' that's for sure

 

[S.Kennedy]

Chinaman

I like, need to take a deep breath every time I say it, like the comfort of my emotional-support Platypus is like barely enough for me to stomach looking at the word, like let alone say it. So much UGH, like you know what I mean?

Embrace the casual racism.

 

[Victor Ian]

It's basic division. Runs / wickets = batting or bowling average

What are you calculating by doing it the other way around?

duh.....inverse average!

 

[mr_mister]

I can't believe what my offhand poles comment has sparked

 

[Immenso]

Bludgeoned is a fine description.

It is a big hit that sounds bad, hasn't been middled, but has been 'muscled' over the ring to the boundary.

However, this is now physically impossible to do with modern bats and the word, I begrudgingly accept, should now be retired from the commentator's vernacular. A Shane Watson for example pinging a ball over the boundary from high up on a modern bat is not bludgeoning. Let alone use of the word when someone actually middles it.