A Summer of Cricket - Select Cricket Glossary
Bodyline 1. n. a tactic employed by the fielding side in which fielders are placed near the batsman on the leg side and the bowlers bowl fast, short pitched balls aimed at the batsman, with the goal of making the batsman fend the ball away from his body and deflect the ball for a catch, first used by the English team touring Australia in 1932-33 and subsequently made illegal under the law governing fair play; synonym for leg theory but with greater connotations of foul play.
Chucker 1. n. derogatory term for a bowler who violates the rule prohibiting the straightening of the bowling arm during a delivery.
Duck 1. n. a batsman's score of zero runs, after getting out. The batsman got out for a duck. cf. golden duck.
Gardening 1. v.i. present participle of garden.
2. n. the act (of a batsman) of inspecting and tapping the pitch lightly with the bat in order to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities
Googly 1. n. a type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins from off to leg to a right-handed batsman, unlike a normal leg break.
Leg Before Wicket (LBW) 1. adj. describing the method of getting out in which the bowler bowls a ball that would hits the striker's wicket, but it hits the striker instead without first hitting his bat; abbreviated LBW. 2. n. a wicket that fell by the method of LBW.
Nightwatchman 1. n. a batsman sent in to bat above his normal batting position at the fall of a wicket a short time before the end of a day's play, as a tactic to protect better batsmen from having to begin their innings just before the end of play and then have to begin again the next day.
Silly Point 1. n. fielding position on the off side, square of the striker's wicket and very close to the batsman, a static position designed to catch the ball from a misplaced block or other defensive shot. 2. n. a fielder fielding in the silly point position.
Wrong 'Un 1. n. see googly.
Yorker 1. n. a ball bowled so as to bounce on the pitch on or near the batsman's popping crease.
A more comprehesive list of cricket terms can be found on either BBC Sports 
or David Morgan-Mar's cricket glossary site.
