Flighting (cricket)
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Flighting the ball is when a bowler in cricket
deceives the batsman with subtle changes in the speed of delivery using almost identical bowling actions. This is almost always used by slow bowlers, as it requires the ball to be pushed forward or dropped short by looping the ball in the air. Wilfred Rhodes
and Bishan Bedi were particularly fine exponents of this art. It is the origin of the expression 'deceived in flight'.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
deceives the batsman with subtle changes in the speed of delivery using almost identical bowling actions. This is almost always used by slow bowlers, as it requires the ball to be pushed forward or dropped short by looping the ball in the air. Wilfred Rhodes
Wilfred Rhodes
Wilfred Rhodes was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127 wickets in and scored 2,325 runs, becoming the first Englishman to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in Test matches...
and Bishan Bedi were particularly fine exponents of this art. It is the origin of the expression 'deceived in flight'.