Cricket word search
Stumps, bails and a howzat that echoes across the Basin Reserve. Twenty cricket words for the Black Caps and White Ferns fans, or a long afternoon in the backyard.
- Bails
- Basin Reserve
- Batter
- Black Caps
- Boundary
- Bowler
- Crease
- Duck
- Fielder
- Howzat
- Over
- Pitch
- Runs
- Six
- Slips
- Stumps
- Test match
- Umpire
- White Ferns
- Wicket
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
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Name
| L | W | D | T | S | C | L | R | H | O | W | Z | A | T |
| V | I | B | O | W | L | E | R | P | N | S | S | L | T |
| E | C | A | P | I | T | C | H | E | M | N | O | R | I |
| N | K | D | S | T | U | M | P | S | R | I | E | T | A |
| B | E | L | A | E | C | C | N | E | W | D | C | E | T |
| L | T | B | S | W | E | U | F | T | L | Y | R | S | F |
| B | A | S | I | N | R | E | S | E | R | V | E | T | D |
| A | L | I | G | O | T | I | I | A | C | U | A | M | R |
| P | B | X | R | I | S | F | D | U | C | K | S | A | R |
| F | A | T | H | P | I | N | C | O | T | N | E | T | R |
| G | I | W | I | P | U | M | P | I | R | E | I | C | T |
| O | L | L | E | O | V | E | R | R | S | N | U | H | N |
| F | S | U | B | Y | B | L | A | C | K | C | A | P | S |
| I | E | F | B | I | U | F | T | P | F | E | W | D | A |
Find these words
- Bails
- Basin Reserve
- Batter
- Black Caps
- Boundary
- Bowler
- Crease
- Duck
- Fielder
- Howzat
- Over
- Pitch
- Runs
- Six
- Slips
- Stumps
- Test match
- Umpire
- White Ferns
- Wicket
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About this word search
Cricket is the sound of a New Zealand summer, from a test match at the Basin Reserve in Wellington to a game in the backyard with a wheelie bin as the wicket. The Black Caps won the first World Test Championship final in 2021, and the White Ferns won the T20 World Cup in 2024.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen, with words across, down or diagonally, never backwards. Basin Reserve is the longest with twelve letters, then White Ferns at ten. Six is just three letters, and over, runs and duck four. Look for the Z in howzat and the K in Black Caps, wicket and duck. Black Caps and test match run together.
Hold a backyard test: one run for every word found and a six for the last one.
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