Spot
To bowl "on the spot" is to bowl a good "length" (q.v.). A bowler is said to have "found a spot," when he continuously pitches the ball on a broken patch of ground, which makes the ball break or rise unnaturally.
Square-leg.-A fieldsman on the leg-side, square with the wicket.
Steal runs. To get a run for a hit, when no run seems reasonably possible.