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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Andy Ball, Josh Nicholas and Nick Evershed

Silly point or square leg: how well do you know your way around a cricket field?

Composite image showing The Ashes 2013-14 overlaid with a still from the cricket quiz
It can be difficult to to interpret the vocabulary used to identify the positions of the fielders in cricket. Composite: PA Images / Alamy / Guardian

Cricket is full of jargon. Someone can be out for a duck, fooled by a doosra or fielding in the gully. If you are listening to a game on the radio, it can be difficult to interpret the vocabulary – silly, short, square etc – used to identify the positions of the fielders.

Test how well you know cricket positions with the quiz below.

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