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English: Diagram of a Cricket ground showing various fielding positions and variations of the field as it may be set for a right-handed batsman. Changes compared to Cricket fielding positions2.svg. Closer in → nearer the batsman; very close in → very near the batsman; toward 90 deg to the pitch → level with batsman's crease
A wicket-keeper (bending down) and three slips wait for the next ball. The batter – out of shot – is a left-hander. Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the striking batter, to limit the number of runs that the striker scores and/or to get a batter out by either catching a hit ball before it bounces, or by running out ...
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A cricket field may be notionally divided into two halves, by an imaginary line running down the middle of the pitch, through the middle stumps, and out to the boundary in both directions. The off side is the half of the field in front of the on-strike batsman, when the batsman is in normal batting stance. Which half of the field is the off ...
Image is drawn for a right handed batsman. For a left handed batsman, the positions are mirror image of the above. The bowler here is assumed to be a right handed bowler bowling "over the wicket"; for "around the wicket" bowling, the bowler and the non-striker will interchange their positions. (Vice-versa for left-handed bowlers)
a fielding position close the boundary on the leg side, located in front of, and relatively close to, the line of the wicket. Long stop. or very fine leg. a fielding position on the boundary directly behind the wicket-keeper, to recover any byes or wides that evade the keeper. Occasionally seen at village cricket level but obsolete in ...
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Fielding positions in cricket for a right-handed batter. Of the eleven fielders, three are in shot in the image above. The other eight are elsewhere on the field, their positions determined on a tactical basis by the captain or the bowler. Fielders often change position between deliveries, again as directed by the captain or bowler. [87]