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Snickometer, commonly known as Snicko, is a system used in cricket to determine whether the ball edged [a] the bat, for a potential dismissal such as a catch or leg before wicket. It does this by showing a frame-by-frame replay of the footage of the ball passing the bat alongside a waveform displaying the soundwave of an oscilloscope connected ...
A few weeks ago I was looking for the sound of crickets, and was surprised to find no freely licensed cricket sounds on enwiki or on commons. I found some on the internet, but they did not have compatible licenses. Frustration! Then a couple nights ago I heard a cricket in my garage, so like a good Wikipedian I recorded and uploaded it.
A paddle scoop or Marillier shot is a modern cricketing shot. Players have used it more and more often in One Day International and Twenty20 cricket matches, since it appeared in the early 21st century. The player makes the shot by positioning the body square-on with the ball, both feet pointing towards the bowler.
A stump microphone, informally known as a stump mic, is a microphone embedded in a cricket stump. It was originally developed by Kerry Packer for World Series Cricket in the 1970s. [1] At first it was primarily for entertainment value: "television audiences could hear the rattle of stumps". [2]
A paddle sweep shot is a sweep shot in which the ball is deflected towards fine leg with a stationary or near-stationary bat extended horizontally towards the bowler, whereas the hard sweep shot is played towards square leg with the bat swung firmly in a horizontal arc. Typically the sweep shot will be played to a legside delivery, but it is ...
Dean is wired to the stump microphone, and bases his commentary on the sounds that he picks up.He can make out the bowler from their landing and how they grunt. His assessment of the batsman's shots is based on the length of the time between the ball pitching and hitting the bat, shuffle of the batsman's feet, and the type of noise emanating from the bat striking the ball.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 December 2024. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...
In cricket, the helicopter shot is the act of hitting the ball by means of a wristy flick, using the bottom-hand as the dominant force. The shot gets its name from the flourish completing the stroke, with the bat being circled overhead.