Cricket jargon pet hates

[BoyBrumby]

left arm chinaman?

Was actually named after someone of Chinese extraction though, wasn't it? Puss Achong from memory?

Would give you French/Chinese cuts tho.

 

[zaremba]

AWTA, I always thought you were supposed to mention the wickets taken first, e.g 9/21. It frustrates me when it's the other way around.

It depends whether you're talking about batsmen or bowlers, and where you are in the world.

In Australia, you would say 4/235 for a batting team's score. In England and, I think, the rest of the world (not sure about NZ) it would be 235/4, which I think makes a bit more sense, because it puts the actual score first before qualifying it with the number of wickets lost.

When you're talking about a bowler's analysis, it's wickets first every time (including I think in Oz): we would say a bowler took 3/23. Again, putting his achievement first, in this case wickets taken, before qualifying it with runs given away.

 

[ankitj]

"Held their nerves". Hate it because it's mostly used in hindsight and adds nothing in terms of adding insights into what happened in the match.

 

[watson]

I've never understood why anyone would want to bowl left-arm chinaman.

What's the point in going through so much contorted effort just to get the ball to move back into the right-hand batsman so he thrash it over mid-wicket?

 

[stumpski]

I've never understood why anyone would want to bowl left-arm chinaman.

What's the point in going through so much contorted effort just to get the ball to move back into the right-hand batsman so he thrash it over mid-wicket?

Well you've got the googly variation I suppose - the one that leaves the right-hander - plus there are a lot of left-handed batsman in the game now, but it's still a style hardly ever seen outside Australia (I think only two or three individuals have ever bowled it for England).

"Good areas" I dislike, also "executing skills" and why do targets always get "chased down" now, rather than simply chased, or achieved? I don't mind "nurdled" - it's got an antiquated, agrarian sound to it - probably what the Hambledon guys did with their curved bats.

 

[uvelocity]

Was actually named after someone of Chinese extraction though, wasn't it? Puss Achong from memory?

Would give you French/Chinese cuts tho.

dunno. would give you a flogging but

Trying to think of another one.... indian summer? pretty sure Mark Nicholas (hate him) has used that one

 

[Agent Nationaux]

With the way umpiring standards are these days, LBW should be called BBW (Bat Before Wicket).

 

[Son Of Coco]

Was actually named after someone of Chinese extraction though, wasn't it? Puss Achong from memory?

Would give you French/Chinese cuts tho.

Don't try to bypass the filter

 

[howardj]

'Group' instead of 'team'

 

[Langeveldt]

Just heard a cracker from Jim Maxwell

"Dernbach throws down the whitie"

 

[benchmark00]

I like Mark Nicholas, but "sixer" annoys me. He also says "MAXIMUM" for a six. Seems like a contrived way of making 20/20 more "exciting for the people".

Slater and Nicholas commenting on a 20/20 are the worst, "the buzz here is ELECTRIC", "SIXER...MAXIMUM".

It is the rock n roll version of the game tbf.

 

[smash84]

absolutely hate "MAXIMUM"....Ramiz Raja uses that a lot...so does Mark Nicholas I think

on a somewhat related note also hate Greig's "up she goes".......

 

[benchmark00]

What about his 'I wonder where they flew her in from' ?

Big fan of it itbt.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Warne just dropped one: "busyness". He's a "busy cricketer".

What does that even mean? Turd but tries a lot of things quickly?

 

[Agent Nationaux]

I hate Shatri's, "it went like a tracer bullet". Him and Ramiz are full of cliches.

 

[NUFAN]

"He'd catch that 99 times out of 100".

 

[benchmark00]

''Mick Lewis has been brought into the attack.''

 

[fredfertang]

Any reference to Geoff Boycott's grandmother

Any reference to "lollipop bowling"

Used to hate hearing about the "corridor of uncertainty" when it first came in to vogue - almost miss it now though

 

[ganeshran]

Cricket is the winner today

 

[Bonnie Prince C]

I've never understood why anyone would want to bowl left-arm chinaman.

What's the point in going through so much contorted effort just to get the ball to move back into the right-hand batsman so he thrash it over mid-wicket?

Why does anyone bowl offspin on the same basis?

I have bowled some overs of chinaman bowling in my time and I have found it pretty effective as it actually turns on tracks with very little assistance, it is easier to get bounce with compared to SLA I find and the straight one is very effective. If I had more time to work on it would probably bowl it properly.