Overused terms in cricket journalism/writing/punditry

[Daemon]

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.

gtfo with your negativity smh

 

[Magrat Garlick]

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.

talking about their covid test results were they

 

[Teja.]

Snagging a single after a boundary always being intelligent cricket is pretty funny.

 

[honestbharani]

Snagging a single after a boundary always being intelligent cricket is pretty funny.

#SunnyGthoughts

 

[BoyBrumby]

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?

I never thought of it as being peculiar to English comms, but it's pretty much always been in use up here since I've been watching. Nass seems particularly fond of it, so it's probably come more to the fore over the last decade and a half.

I think it sounds tidier than "edging behind" anyway as it sums up the full passage of play, both the nick and the catch.

 

[Uppercut]

Pressure. Used as a catch-all reason to do literally anything, no matter how little sense it makes.

Like when a batsman is turning down singles batting with the tail, but the commentators still insist that the field should have men up saving turned-down singles because "pressure".

 

[andruid]

Football matches kick off, ttherefore in Kenya, cricket matches bowl off.

 

[thierry henry]

I never thought of it as being peculiar to English comms, but it's pretty much always been in use up here since I've been watching. Nass seems particularly fond of it, so it's probably come more to the fore over the last decade and a half.

I think it sounds tidier than "edging behind" anyway as it sums up the full passage of play, both the nick and the catch.

To me it sounds sort of intentionally dumb/grammatically incorrect. Hence why I associated it with that sort of "Grade Cricketer", blokey Aussie sort of thing.

If you "edge behind" it means you've edged the ball behind yourself. If you've nicked off you've nicked it and you're.....off? Is that what it's supposed to mean, like "I'm off" as in "I'm leaving"? Because in cricket generally you're not "off" you're "out". I've also never heard a catch being referred to as an.....off? It's a weird bit of syntax.

 

[Prince EWS]

To me it sounds sort of intentionally dumb/grammatically incorrect. Hence why I associated it with that sort of "Grade Cricketer", blokey Aussie sort of thing.

If you "edge behind" it means you've edged the ball behind yourself. If you've nicked off you've nicked it and you're.....off? Is that what it's supposed to mean, like "I'm off" as in "I'm leaving"? Because in cricket generally you're not "off" you're "out". I've also never heard a catch being referred to as an.....off? It's a weird bit of syntax.

Say "off" more.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Snagging a single after a boundary always being intelligent cricket is pretty funny.

****ing this. Overrated as all hell. You'd think this was the peak of batting. "Sure hitting 3 boundaries in a row is great but would have been better if he got a single instead".

**** off with that

 

[Prince EWS]

****ing this. Overrated as all hell. You'd think this was the peak of batting. "Sure hitting 3 boundaries in a row is great but would have been better if he got a single instead".

**** off with that

As a bowler I was sometimes just relieved when someone who just played a great shot got himself off strike tbh.

 

[smash84]

As a bowler I was sometimes just relieved when someone who just played a great shot got himself off strike tbh.

So you mean that is great cricket from the bowler's perspective.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

Football matches kick off, ttherefore in Kenya, cricket matches bowl off.

You sure you aren't thinking of this?

 

[Son Of Coco]

Not: for 'Not Out'. I find it really ****ing annoying. Sounds like something the cool kids would come up with at the back of the bus to try to distinguish themselves from all the plebs who speak normally.

"I don't know who wrote the script": nobody did you daft ****. It's called life and it happens randomly - if you did well, maybe it's because you're a good cricketer.

 

[Daemon]

Snagging a single after a boundary always being intelligent cricket is pretty funny.

I hope snagging a single never becomes a thing

 

[OverratedSanity]

Any time a captain makes a big score its called a "captain's knock". An almost completely meaningless term.

 

[Daemon]

Any time a captain makes a big score its called a "captain's knock". An almost completely meaningless term.

Technically even a duck is a captain's knock

 

[Teja.]

I hope snagging a single never becomes a thing

 

[Daemon]

I saw hamster and immediately assumed the worst (or best)

 

[andruid]

You sure you aren't thinking of this?

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