bowling crease

A bowling crease is long with the middle stump placed dead centre.

Miller returned to the bowling crease in England's second innings.

The bowling crease was smaller in those days, which restricted their angles of attack.

One picture showed him with his rear foot past the bowling crease before he had even begun to drag.

The popping crease is 4 feet (1.22 m) in front of and parallel to the bowling crease.

Side on: the back foot is parallel to the bowling crease causing the hips to be side on.

This aligns the shoulders and chest parallel with the bowling crease and hips.

He had a unique run-up where he slowed down as he reached the bowling crease.

Creases - The bowling crease is generally the non-strikers wicket along a line straight out to either side.

For example, Spin bowlers tend to have very short run-ups, some even approach the bowling crease at a walking pace.

Mafouz shuffled up to the bowling crease and started to wind his right arm backwards at high speed.

Chest on: the back foot points straight down the track towards the target, aligning the hips parallel to the bowling crease.

In the 1950s the front foot rule had not been written, so the requirement was that one foot be behind the bowling crease.

If the bowler's back foot is behind parallel to the bowling crease, the bowler loses momentum and speed when delivering the ball.

These are called the "popping" (or batting) crease, the bowling crease and two "return" creases.

As you can see on this old cine film of Ray Lindwall dragging his foot over the bowling crease.

The ball must be delivered from behind a bowling crease, but preparation to bowl the ball can be done any way the bowler wishes.

He returned to the bowling crease in the Sharjah tournament, taking four wickets at 28.00 and scoring 98 runs at 49.00.

The structure in the bowling crease was used to co-ordinate two cameras which filmed bowlers from side-on and from directly behind the arm.

In the side on action, the back foot lands parallel to the bowling crease and the bowler aims at the wicket by looking over his front shoulder.

Formerly, part of the bowler's back foot in the delivery stride was required to fall behind the bowling crease to avoid a delivery being a no ball.

Bradman injured himself during the marathon innings in a rare stint at the bowling crease after the specialist bowlers had failed to break the Englishmen.

One of the fastest bowlers ever to play Test cricket, he was nicknamed "Whispering Death" by umpires due to his quiet approach to the bowling crease.

South African fast bowler Geoff Griffin arrives at the bowling crease, his bent right arm suggesting a throw rather than a legal 'bowl'

The return creases of the pitch at the bowler's end is marked by a lines at right angles to the bowling crease to the line of the wickets.