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Block Ball – Break-back

Block Ball

A ball in play touched by a spectator or by one of the batting side when not actively engaged in the game.

Bunt Hit

A ball deliberately batted so slowly to the in-field that it cannot be fielded in time to put out the base-runner.

British Pyralides

J. H. Leech (Porter), 1886; Catalogue of the Leech Collection of Palearctic [BUTTERFLY COLLECTING

Butterflies

R. South (Longmans), 1902; The British Noctuæ and their Varieties, 4 vols., J. W.

Tutt (Sonnenschein), 1891-92; A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera, J. W. Tutt (Sonnenschein), 1899-1904; British Butterflies and Moths, W. Furneaux (Longmans), 1894; The

Book of British Butterflies

W. J. Lucas (Upcott Gill), 1895; History of British Moths, Revd. F. O.

Morris (Nimmo), 4 vols., 1896; History of British

Butterflies

Revd. F. O. Morris (Routledge), 2 vols., 1908; British Butterflies, W. S. Coleman (Routledge), 1897; The Lepidopterist's Guide, H. G. Knaggs (Gurney), 1901; Handbook of British

Butterflies

P. Charnley (Simpkin), 1902; The

Back-up

To follow up the ball when nonstriker, so as to get a start in event of a run being possible.

Bailer

A ball which removes one or both bails without disturbing the stumps.

Boundary

The limits of the match-inclosure.

Bowling-crease.- [See LAW 7.]

Break

A change of direction taken by the ball after touching the ground.

Break-back

A ball which, as delivered by a right-handed bowler, twists from "off" to "leg."

With a left-handed bowler the ball breaks from "leg" to "off."

Bump-ball.-A ball which after being struck by the bat strikes the ground before it reaches a fieldsman.