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A type of chocolate bar made exclusively for "female" cricket players

A term dating back to the mid 1800s when Sir Henry Piemaster the 3rd, a notoriously bad bowler, famously lost his Cricket ball after a particularly poor bowl went drastically awry. To continue the game he had no choice but to resume play using pies from his nearby factory as ball substitutes after the umpire suggested that their leathery consistency would make them perfect for the job. After the 5 day match/ordeal was over so many pies had been destroyed that Sir Henry went out of business, and to make matters worse, lost the match.

Commonly used to describe players in the Scottish cricket team after going out for a duck.

1/ a bowler of limited skill.

LBW is short for 'Look! Bus Watch', a favourite occupation of the Test Match Special team.

Invented in the United States in 1882, Charles Wentworth came up with a specialized brush for male models at the time. Made with hog bristles and wood, the purpose was to soften the mustaches of men. It became popular throughout the Western world.

A Snickometer, commonly known as Snicko, is used in televising cricket to graphically analyse sound and video, and show whether a fine noise, or snick, occurs as ball passes bat. It was invented by English computer scientist Alan Plaskett in the mid-1990s. Plaskett, brother of chess Grandmaster James Plaskett, also invented another device for aiding television commentary on cricket: Flightpath, and is the author of 'H-Trauma: The General Theory of Evil', a work in the field of psychoanalysis. The snickometer was introduced by Channel 4 in the UK, who also introduced the Hawk-Eye and the Red Zone, in 1999.