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In cricket, an over consists of six legal deliveries bowled from one end of a cricket pitch to the player batting at the other end, almost always by a single bowler. A maiden over is an over in which no runs are scored that count against the bowler (so leg byes and byes may be scored as they are not counted against the bowler). A wicket maiden ...
Nadkarni bowled 21 maiden overs, [4] or 131 scoreless balls, in succession. The record for most consecutive balls without conceding a run is held by Hugh Tayfield of South Africa, who bowled 137 dot balls, or 16 eight-ball overs, across two innings against England at Durban, in 1956–57. [5]
List A cricket the limited-overs equivalent of first-class cricket. Lob bowling An obsolete form of underarm bowling, in which the ball was lobbed high in the air, falling back to the pitch on a steep trajectory. A common variation aimed to drop the ball directly onto the stumps, without bouncing. Lob bowling was popular in the 19th century but ...
Saad holds the world record for completing his maximum quota of overs (4 overs in a 20-over match) without conceding a run in a men's T20I match and has the 7th most maiden overs bowled in T20I career. [4] Saad also currently holds the record for the 3rd highest strike rate of 414.28 in a T20I innings. [5]
Overs is more traditional, but balls is a more useful statistic because the number of balls per over has varied historically (and even within a single match, can vary due to umpire miscounting [4]). Maiden overs (M): The number of maiden overs (overs in which the bowler conceded zero runs) bowled. Runs (R): The number of runs conceded.
In women's cricket matches played between the top 10 ranked teams – as announced by ICC – are given ODI status, as are matches played as a part of the ICC Women's World Cup or ICC Women's Championship. [1] [2] [3] ODIs consist of one innings per team, with a limit to the number of overs. This limit is currently 50 overs, although in the ...
Herschelle Gibbs, the Player of the Match of the first ever game where a team scored 400.. This is a list of scores of 400 or more runs made by a team in a One Day International (ODI), a form of one-day cricket played between international cricket teams who are Full Members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) as well as the top six Associate and Affiliate members. [1]
Much of the language of cricket is heavily gendered; terms such as maiden over, nightwatchman, and third man are not officially sanctioned but remain in colloquial use. [15] In 2021, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) amended the rulebook, the Laws of Cricket , to replace the term "batsman" with the term " batter " to better reflect the modern ...