Field Positions

Cricket is a game where each part of the ground has a fielding position name. We have square leg, fine leg, short leg, leg slip, leg gully and lot more variety of legs only. We do have the silly's too. Coming to the POINT which again is a fielding position, I have noticed that lot of cricket lovers know the game well but don't know which position is which except for the off and on sides. This is more true with people who have played more gully cricket then on real cricket grounds just because in gully cricket you don't have so much space to place so many fielders. Which is another reason why Indian and pakistani batsmen can play superb straight drives the credit again goes to lack of space.


As i was surfing through the net i came across a beautiful image of the cricket ground with all the fielding positions marked. Here is the image

Familiarise yourself with the various fielding positions.

pic source-wikimedia







On the lighter side here is is an image from nicholson cartoons where some thing similar to gully cricket field positions are there. Have a look and let a smile break in to your lips.







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