Hard cricket word search
Silly point, a yorker and a hat trick at Hagley Oval: twenty-eight cricket words for proper fans. They run in every direction in an eighteen by eighteen grid, backwards included.
- Bails
- Basin Reserve
- Batter
- Black Caps
- Bouncer
- Boundary
- Bowler
- Crease
- Duck
- Fielder
- Hagley Oval
- Hat trick
- Howzat
- Innings
- No ball
- Over
- Pitch
- Runs
- Silly point
- Six
- Slips
- Spinner
- Stumps
- Test match
- Umpire
- White Ferns
- Wicket
- Yorker
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- Bails
- Basin Reserve
- Batter
- Black Caps
- Bouncer
- Boundary
- Bowler
- Crease
- Duck
- Fielder
- Hagley Oval
- Hat trick
- Howzat
- Innings
- No ball
- Over
- Pitch
- Runs
- Silly point
- Six
- Slips
- Spinner
- Stumps
- Test match
- Umpire
- White Ferns
- Wicket
- Yorker
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About this word search
A hat trick is three wickets in three balls, a yorker lands right at the batter's feet and silly point is a fielding spot close enough to the bat to be risky. Hagley Oval in Christchurch and the Basin Reserve in Wellington both host test cricket.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen, with words in all eight directions. Basin Reserve is the longest at twelve letters. Six is only three, and over, runs and duck are four letters and easy to miss. Look for the Y in yorker, boundary, silly point and Hagley Oval, and the only Z in howzat. No ball, hat trick and Hagley Oval run together.
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