Cricket Phrases

Phrases

• 100% squeezed sunshine (Tropicana advertising slogan)
• 100% versus 6% That's the Total difference (Total Toothpaste advertising slogan)
• 101 Dalmatians (Disney cartoon and Glenn Close movie)
• A coward dies a hundred deaths
• Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt book)
• Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie song)
• Ashes to ashes dust to dust
• Bail jumper
• Bail out
• Barmy army
• Bat from the pavilion end (slang term for a homosexual)
• Be a good sport
• Big Bird (Nickname of Joel Garner - Barbados and West Indies cricketer)
• Bowled a maiden over
• Burnt to a ashes
• Carrying his bat
• Catches win matches
• Contact sport
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fire up the Quattro (A catchphrase from Gene Glenister In Ashes To Ashes)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Good sport
• Guy The Gorilla (Nickname of cricketer Ian Botham)
• Hit for six
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• It's not cricket
• Jimminy Cricket
• Jump bail
• Keep a straight bat
• Keep wicket
• Knee high to a grasshopper

• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Let your conscience be your guide
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mr. Cricket (Nickname of Michael Hussey - Australian cricketer)
• Not a hundred miles away
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez book)
• Out for a duck
• Rake over the ashes
• Rise from the ashes
• Rise like a Phoenix from the ashes
• Sackcloth and ashes
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Slog away
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Sticky wicket
• Ten lords a-leaping (line from A Partridge In A Pear Tree)
• Ten one hundred
• The Don (Nickname of Donald Bradman - Australian cricketer)
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• The sport of kings
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Turn to ashes in your mouth
• Up stumps
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Winning is the mark of the Rebel (Rebel Sport advertising slogan)

Related

• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• It's not cricket
• Jimminy Cricket
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mr. Cricket (Nickname of Michael Hussey - Australian cricketer)
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)