Hard cricket word search
Googly, silly point and the Boxing Day Test: twenty-eight cricket words for fans who know their fine leg from their square leg. The eighteen by eighteen grid hides them backwards and diagonally.
- Backyard cricket
- Baggy green
- Bouncer
- Boxing Day Test
- Century
- Cover drive
- Declaration
- Drinks break
- Duck
- Fine leg
- Follow-on
- Googly
- Gully
- Hat-trick
- Hook shot
- Leg before wicket
- Leg spin
- Maiden over
- Mid-on
- Off spin
- Scoreboard
- Silly point
- Slips
- Square leg
- The Ashes
- Third umpire
- Wicketkeeper
- Yorker
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Name
| E | P | F | I | N | E | L | E | G | U | L | L | Y | I | A | O | H | T |
| B | F | T | M | G | N | I | N | O | D | I | M | T | G | F | E | L | E |
| N | O | B | O | X | I | N | G | D | A | Y | T | E | S | T | E | P | H |
| O | L | U | W | E | S | R | R | T | O | H | S | K | O | O | H | D | I |
| I | L | E | N | D | R | A | O | B | E | R | O | C | S | H | G | F | N |
| A | O | M | X | C | S | I | L | L | Y | P | O | I | N | T | M | L | E |
| S | W | I | C | K | E | T | K | E | E | P | E | R | E | I | E | A | E |
| Q | O | T | M | S | E | R | E | O | R | E | E | C | P | I | D | N | R |
| U | N | O | I | T | A | R | A | L | C | E | D | D | U | O | R | H | G |
| A | E | C | T | H | I | R | D | U | M | P | I | R | E | L | I | T | Y |
| R | O | A | F | R | E | V | O | N | E | D | I | A | M | H | N | O | G |
| E | H | N | C | E | N | T | U | R | Y | K | R | Y | L | A | K | F | G |
| L | E | G | B | E | F | O | R | E | W | I | C | K | E | T | S | F | A |
| E | V | I | R | D | R | E | V | O | C | N | M | C | G | T | B | S | B |
| G | G | O | O | G | L | Y | O | R | K | E | R | A | S | R | R | P | M |
| R | R | O | R | S | L | I | P | S | N | C | T | B | P | I | E | I | R |
| E | A | D | E | I | D | O | O | T | O | R | U | S | I | C | A | N | A |
| T | S | T | S | E | H | S | A | E | H | T | I | D | N | K | K | R | T |
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- Backyard cricket
- Baggy green
- Bouncer
- Boxing Day Test
- Century
- Cover drive
- Declaration
- Drinks break
- Duck
- Fine leg
- Follow-on
- Googly
- Gully
- Hat-trick
- Hook shot
- Leg before wicket
- Leg spin
- Maiden over
- Mid-on
- Off spin
- Scoreboard
- Silly point
- Slips
- Square leg
- The Ashes
- Third umpire
- Wicketkeeper
- Yorker
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About this word search
The Ashes is the long-running Test series between Australia and England, named after a mock obituary for English cricket and played for a tiny urn. The Boxing Day Test at the MCG on 26 December is a fixture of the Australian summer, and the Baggy green is the cap worn by Australian Test players.
Fielding positions and shots are scattered through the big grid in every orientation, reversed spellings among them. Leg before wicket is the longest entry and hides as a single string. The Y in Gully and Yorker, plus the two Gs in Googly, are useful starting points.
A Duck means out for no runs and a Century means a hundred, two terms worth explaining to newer fans before they start.
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