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

[Bijed]

Reckon the discussion going on in the Aus v SA thread deserves it's own thread.

From said thread:

I also dislike 'decked' and 'deck' for seam movement. 'Moved' or 'seamed' or 'cut' (for that rare time that someone actually bowls a cutter) are all better terms.

Need more widespread use of the term 'nip-backer' imo

Cricket thesaurus:
Hit well: tonked, carted, creamed, middled, bludgeoned, biffed, blatted,

Couple more



Also 'the full pint' when someone gets bowled?


Also don't be afraid if you really, really like a particular one too

 

[Spikey]

"your new commentator will be shane warne"

 

[Spikey]

and of course, "maximum"

 

[Bijed]

"Australia going along nicely at the moment"

 

[Bolo]

Dot balls are like golddust.

Gilchrist hits another sixer.

 

[Arachnodouche]

How many on-air commentators do you reckon read a book a month? Not many, I think, and it shows.

 

[ankitj]

"went straight with the arm". Just say ball went straight.

"held the nerves". Often retrospectively said for winning team.

 

[vcs]

"thinking cricketer" - generally used for guys like Stuart Binny, Rajat Bhatia, Robin Singh etc. who aren't particularly good at anything. A "thinking cricketer" generally bowls military medium pace and gets you a quick 20 down the order once in 10 attempts.

"street-smart batsman" - usually sucks against anything resembling quality bowling, but does a decent job filling a middle order slot. Bowls some ugly part-time spin as a bonus. Examples - Raina, Kedhar Jadhav etc.

Most Indian commentators are partial to these two.

 

[Daemon]

Guys guys guys

"tracer bullet"

 

[vcs]

 

[GRAB]

Another serial offender...
https://www.scoopwhoop.com/sports/ravi-shastri-king-of-cliches/

 

[Bijed]

Commentators often seem to describe as innings a 'Captain's knock' when the captain reaches a half-century, regardless of context. Save it for when they've really made a big impact.

 

[fredfertang]

'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?'

 

[Starfighter]

"went straight with the arm". Just say ball went straight.

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.

 

[S.Kennedy]

''Maximum'' drives me up the wall
''...is pumped'' (Warner is a player who seems to be constantly, ''pumped'').
''Salmon'' (stupendously moronic).
''Michelle''
''Pill'
''Tonked'' (Graeme Swann is a fan of this).
''Cherry'' (Boycott uses this a lot so we cannot entirely blame the Australians).
''Nut''

 

[S.Kennedy]

Although they do not annoy me so much as much as it is something I find curious whenever I watch channel 9's broadcasts. One thing is that every fielder becomes a ''bat pad''. A ''silly point'' is a bat pad. Warne calls every fielder a bat pad. ''Sundries'' also for extras! The score is the wrong way round which creates a fair amount of confusion when a team has lost a bunch of early wickets.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I am yet to see the 'fence' Ramiz Raja always talks about.

 

[Starfighter]

''Sundries'' also for extras!

Has always been the Australian term.

The score is the wrong way round which creates a fair amount of confusion when a team has lost a bunch of early wickets.

Put runs first in bowling analyses then I'll accept that it's the correct way to do it. Unless that happens we are correct and everyone else is wrong.

Need more widespread use of the term 'nip-backer' imo

FMD. I hate this one so much. It's such an unnatural phrase that you are obviously going out of your way to butcher the English language.

 

[Bijed]

Put runs first in bowling analyses then I'll accept that it's the correct way to do it. Unless that happens we are correct and everyone else is wrong.

The argument I've come across for doing it the English way is that that it's consistent in terms of it's the good thing followed by the bad - i.e the team is trying to score runs/the bowler is trying to take wickets and it's cost them wickets/runs to do so. But admittedly I do remember being confused by it as a child so I won't say it's objectively better.

 

[Starfighter]

The argument I've come across for doing it the English way is that that it's consistent in terms of it's the good thing followed by the bad - i.e the team is trying to score runs/the bowler is trying to take wickets and it's cost them wickets/runs to do so. But admittedly I do remember being confused by it as a child so I won't say it's objectively better.

Wickets are good, runs are bad. This is indisputable fact.