<Dd> a shot played square on the off side to a short - pitched delivery wide of off stump . So called because the batsman makes a "cutting" motion as he plays the shot . </Dd> <Dd> a break delivery bowled by a fast or medium - pace bowler with similar action to a spin bowler, but at a faster pace . It is usually used in an effort to surprise the batsman, although some medium - pace bowlers use the cutter as their stock (main) delivery . </Dd> <Dl> <Dt> Daisy cutter </Dt> <Dd> When a ball rolls along the pitch or bounces more than 2 times </Dd> <Dt> Dancing (down the pitch) </Dt> <Dd> when a batsman approaches the bowler during the delivery, usually skipping once or twice down the wicket, to leverage momentum in hitting the ball toward the boundary; see' charge .' </Dd> <Dt> Day / night cricket </Dt> <Dd> a cricket match that is allowed to proceed into night hours by using floodlights; originally only allowed for one - day cricket, the ICC has recently allowed evening sessions of Test cricket to go day / night so that bad light need not preempt play . </Dd> <Dt> Dead ball </Dt> <Dd> 1 . the state of play in between deliveries, in which batsmen may not score runs or be given out . </Dd> <Dd> 2 . called when the ball becomes lodged in the batsman's clothing or equipment . </Dd> <Dd> 3 . called when the ball is (or is about to be) bowled when the batsman is not yet ready . </Dd> <Dd> 4 . called when a bowler aborts his run up without making a delivery . </Dd> <Dd> 5 . called when the batsmen attempt to run leg - byes after the ball has struck the batsman's body, but is deemed to have not offered a shot . </Dd> <Dt> Dead bat </Dt> <Dd> the bat when held with a light grip such that it gives when the ball strikes it, and the ball loses momentum and falls to the ground . </Dd> <Dt> Dead rubber </Dt> <Dt> Death bowler </Dt> <Dd> a bowler who regularly bowls during the death overs of a limited overs match . Bowlers are also described as "bowling at the death". </Dd> <Dt> Death overs (also slog overs) </Dt> <Dd> the final overs of a limited overs match, in which a batting side with wickets in hand can bat aggressively, and in which bowlers are, usually, hit for lots of runs . </Dd> <Dt> Death rattle </Dt> <Dd> the symbolic sound of a batsman's wicket being broken when he is bowled . </Dd> <Dt> Debenture </Dt> <Dt> Decision review system (DRS) </Dt> <Dd> see Umpire Decision Review System . </Dd> <Dt> Declaration </Dt> <Dd> the act of a captain voluntarily bringing his side's innings to a close, in the belief that their score is now great enough to prevent defeat . Occurs almost exclusively in timed forms of cricket where a draw is a possible result (such as first - class cricket), in order that the side declaring have enough time to bowl the opposition out and therefore win . </Dd> <Dt> Declaration bowling </Dt> <Dd> deliberately poor bowling (Full tosses and Long hops) from the fielding team to allow the batsmen to score runs quickly and encourage the opposing captain to declare, thereby giving both teams a chance of winning in a timed match which would otherwise have been drawn . Non-specialist bowlers will often be used in this context, to preserve dignity (and the bowling averages) of the specialist bowlers . This may be seen in domestic first - class cricket, where the points systems used often show little penalty between a draw and a loss; but it would seldom be seen in Test cricket where the consequence of a loss in the context of a series is greater . Cf . Cafeteria bowling . </Dd> <Dt> Defensive field </Dt> <Dd> A fielding configuration in which fielders are spread around the field so as to more readily stop hit balls and reduce the number of runs (particularly boundaries) being scored by batsmen, at the cost of fewer opportunities to take catches and dismiss batsmen . </Dd> <Dt> Delivery </Dt> <Dd> the act of bowling the ball . </Dd> <Dt> Devil's number (also Dreaded number) </Dt> <Dd> a score of 87, regarded as unlucky in Australian cricket . According to Australian superstition, batsmen have a tendency to be dismissed for 87 . The superstition is thought to originate from the fact that 87 is 13 runs short of a century . The English term Nelson similarly refers to a superstition concerning a number traditionally regarded as unlucky . </Dd> <Dt> Diamond duck </Dt> <Dd> regional usage varies, but either a dismissal (usually run out) without facing a delivery, or a dismissal (for zero) off the first ball of a team's innings (the less common term platinum duck is used interchangeably). </Dd> <Dt> Dibbly dobbly </Dt> <Dd> 1 . a bowler of limited skill . </Dd> <Dd> 2 . a delivery that is easy to hit . </Dd> <Dt> Dilscoop </Dt> <Dd> A stroke where a batsman goes on one knee and hits a good length or slightly short of length ball straight over the wicket keeper's head usually to the boundary or over it . Displayed at the world stage by Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan during the ICC World Twenty20 in June 2009 and named after him . </Dd> <Dt> Dink </Dt> <Dd> a gentle shot . </Dd> <Dt> Dinner </Dt> <Dd> the second of the two intervals taken during a full day's play during a day / night test . </Dd> <Dt> Dipper </Dt> <Dd> a delivery bowled which curves into or away from the batsman before pitching . </Dd> <Dt> Dismissal </Dt> <Dd> to get one of the batsmen out so that he must cease batting . </Dd> <Dt> Direct hit </Dt> <Dd> a throw from a fieldsman that directly strikes and puts down a wicket (without first being caught by a fieldsman standing at the stumps). Occurs when attempting a run out . </Dd> <Dt> Dobbing </Dt> <Dd>' Dobbing' is the act of a bowler running out a batsman who has backed up too far . It is particularly used in League cricket in Lancashire and neighbouring counties </Dd> <Dt> Doctored pitch </Dt> <Dd> a cricket pitch which has been intentionally prepared in an unusual manner to gain a competitive advantage for the home team, such as by creating a surface that favours the home team's strike bowler, or that exacerbates weaknesses in the visiting team's batting . The practice is common and (within reason) legal, but the term is used pejoratively . </Dd> <Dt> Dolly </Dt> <Dd> a very easy catch . </Dd> <Dt> Donkey drop </Dt> <Dd> A ball with a very high trajectory prior to bouncing . </Dd> <Dt> Doosra </Dt> <Dd> a relatively new off spin delivery developed by Saqlain Mushtaq; the finger spin equivalent of the googly, in that it turns the "wrong way". From the Hindi or Urdu for second or other . First coined by Pakistani wicket keeper Moin Khan . </Dd> <Dt> Dot ball </Dt> <Dd> a delivery bowled without any runs scored off it, so called because it is recorded in the score book with a single dot . </Dd> <Dt> Double </Dt> <Dd> normally the scoring of a 1000 runs and the taking of 100 wickets in the same season . </Dd> <Dt> Down the pitch (also Down the wicket) </Dt> <Dd> referring to the motion of a batsman towards the bowler prior to or during the delivery, made in the hope of turning a good length ball into a half - volley . </Dd> <Dt> Drag </Dt> <Dd> before the current "front foot rule" was introduced, bowlers had to release the ball with the rear foot behind the bowling crease; there were instances of bowlers (especially Gordon Rorke) managing to "drag" the rear foot forward before release and not being no - balled . </Dd> <Dt> Draw </Dt> <Dd> 1 . a result in timed matches where the team batting last are not all out, but fail to exceed their opponent's total . Not to be confused with a tie, in which the side batting last is all out or run out of overs with the scores level . </Dd> <Dd> 2 . an antiquated stroke that has fallen into disuse, it was originally a deliberate shot that resembled the French cut--the ball being played between one's own legs . </Dd> <Dt> Draw stumps </Dt> <Dd> Declare the game, or a day's play, over; a reference to withdrawing the stumps from the ground by the umpire . </Dd> <Dt> Drift </Dt> <Dd> the slight lateral curved - path movement that a spinner extracts while the ball is in flight . Considered very good bowling . </Dd> <Dt> Drinks </Dt> <Dd> a short break in play, generally taken in the middle of a session, when refreshments are brought out to the players and umpires by the twelfth men of each side . Drinks breaks do not always take place, but they are usual in test matches, particularly in hot countries . </Dd> <Dt> Drinks waiter </Dt> <Dd> a jocular term for the twelfth man, referring to his job of bringing out drinks . </Dd> <Dt> Drive </Dt> <Dd> a powerful shot generally hit along the ground or sometimes in the air in a direction between cover point on the off side and mid-wicket on the leg side, or in an arc between roughly thirty degrees each side of the direction along the pitch . </Dd> <Dt> Drop </Dt> <Dd> 1 . the accidental "dropping" of a ball that was initially caught by a fielder, thus denying the dismissal of the batsman; when such an event occurs, the batsman is said to have been "dropped". </Dd> <Dd> 2 . the number of dismissals which occur in a team's innings before a given batsman goes in to bat; a batsman batting at' first drop' is batting at number three in the batting order, going in after one wicket has fallen . </Dd> <Dd> 3 . the act of excluding a player from selection in a squad even when he or she was included in the most recent prior selection . </Dd> <Dt> Dropper </Dt> <Dd> alternate term for a lob ball, seen in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short work The story of Spedegue's Dropper . See also Lob bowling . </Dd> <Dt> Drop - in pitch </Dt> <Dd> a temporary pitch that is cultivated off - site from the field which also allows other sports to share the use of the field with less chance of injury to the players . </Dd> <Dt> DRS </Dt> <Dd> common abbreviation for the Umpire Decision Review System . It is not used by India . </Dd> <Dt> Duck </Dt> <Dd> a batsman's score of nought (zero) dismissed, as in "he was out for a duck ." It can refer to a score of nought not out during an innings, as in "she hasn't got off her duck yet", but never refers to a completed innings score of nought not out . Originally called a "duck's egg" because of the "0" shape in the scorebook . (see Golden, Diamond, and Platinum duck) </Dd> <Dt> Duck under delivery </Dt> <Dd> a short pitched delivery that appears to be a bouncer, making the striker duck to avoid from being hit; but instead of bouncing high, it has a low bounce which causes the batsman to be dismissed LBW, or occasionally bowled . </Dd> <Dt> Duckworth - Lewis method </Dt> <Dd> a mathematically based rule that derives a target score for the side batting second in a rain - affected one - day match . </Dd> <Dt> Dugout </Dt> <Dd> a sheltered place just outside the boundary ropes where players sit . Dugouts are a common feature of Twenty20 matches, but pavilions are usually used for any longer forms of the game . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> When a ball rolls along the pitch or bounces more than 2 times </Dd>

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