Overused terms in cricket journalism/writing/punditry

[Lillian Thomson]

“Corridor of uncertainty” is the worst phrase in the history of cricket.

 

[Starfighter]

“Corridor of uncertainty” is the worst phrase in the history of cricket.

Says someone who's never heard Damien Fleming's versions.

 

[smash84]

maximum seems to have become an overused word for 6, for some reason I find it very irritating to hear.

 

[NZTailender]

Intent

Momentum

 

[Victor Ian]

maximum seems to have become an overused word for 6, for some reason I find it very irritating to hear.

Particularly when people have scored 7 before.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

maximum seems to have become an overused word for 6, for some reason I find it very irritating to hear.

Someone should start saying "minimum" for singles.

 

[Victor Ian]

Someone should start saying "minimum" for singles.

Particularly when you can score 0.

 

[ataraxia]

Particularly when you can score 0.

and given penalty runs

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Batsman takes a swing towards cow corner, ball kisses the outside edge of bat and sails over the 3rd slip and towards the boundary:


Samuel Badree: a fortuitous boundary for so-and-so batsman

 

[Daemon]

More commentators should use bopped

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

'Nurdle' is synonymous with Atherton and Nasser.

 

[mr_mister]

Mark Taylor: phhoar smassshed

 

[ankitj]

'Inspired performance' - I understand inspiring performance but what is inspired performance? This is a phrase that gets used exclusively for good performances which doesn't make sense to me. You could be inspired and all on a given day but still put in a **** performance so why use it selectively for good performances? Completely useless phrase afaiac

'Held their nerves' - Usually said for winning team at the end of a close match. Again a post-facto phrase that means nothing IMO. A team may win the game on the last ball of the game with an edge running to the boundary and commentary goes "they held their nerves". May be both teams were ****ting their pants, but one has to inevitably win?

Maybe I overthink.

 

[Prince EWS]

'Inspired performance' - I understand inspiring performance but what is inspired performance? This is a phrase that gets used exclusively for good performances which doesn't make sense to me. You could be inspired and all on a given day but still put in a **** performance so why use it selectively for good performances? Completely useless phrase afaiac

'Held their nerves' - Usually said for winning team at the end of a close match. Again a post-facto phrase that means nothing IMO. A team may win the game on the last ball of the game with an edge running to the boundary and commentary goes "they held their nerves". May be both teams were ****ting their pants, but one has to inevitably win?

Maybe I overthink.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

Can anyone find an early use of 'shape'?

 

[ankitj]

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[TheJediBrah]

Mark Taylor: phhoar smassshed

fujitshhhhu

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Says someone who's never heard Damien Fleming's versions.

Exposed.

 

[thierry henry]

Do writers still use "nicking off"? I'd never heard anyone use that when I was a kid and then all of a sudden people kept saying it.

Honestly I'd never heard this until maybe 5 years ago and I started saying it because it sounded like a "cricket bloke" thing to say. I figured it was an Australian thing or something. Guess it's English?

 

[Noumenon]

Positives. We have to stay positive. We'll pick ourselves and take the positives. He brings so much positivity. Yes we lost...badly...but there are positives to take. It's all about staying positive.