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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
Diagram of a Cricket ground showing various fielding positions and variations of the field as it may be set for a right-handed batsman. File usage The following 2 pages use this file:
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 ...
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)
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A cricket field or cricket oval is a large grass field on which the game of cricket is played. Although generally oval in shape, there is a wide variety within this: perfect circles, elongated ovals, rounded rectangles, or irregular shapes with little or no symmetry – but they will have smooth boundaries without sharp corners, almost without exception.
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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 ...