Can you name the different fielding positions in cricket?

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Cricketing fielding positions Quiz

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Created by: peanut4 -
Contributed: September 27th, 2009
Category: Sports
Plays: 4,996

Tags: Cricket Quizzes, Football Quizzes, different, fielder, fielding

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	uefa81glory:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 14:40 GMT	11 points
	a lot missing. If "silly mid-on/off" is separate from "mid on/off" then "backward square leg" should be included as a variation of "square leg". Then one could also include "short backward square leg", "deep cover" "fourth slip" (back in the 80s the Windies frequently employed 4 slips), "deep point" (sometimes just called "square point" or "square") and probably many other variations. A nice version of this quuiz would be take have an aerial picture and name the positions like a map quiz

	Andy_SSE:	Oct 18th, 2009 at 12:14 GMT	5 points
	silly point, backward point, deep backward square leg, back stop(maybe as a bonus)

	zertrudetrout:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	6 points
	Back stop usually called Long Stop, though only usually employed in junior games with incompetent wicket-keepers.

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	borisyegerov:	Dec 2nd, 2009 at 14:18 GMT	6 points
	i understand the absence of 'deep', 'forward', 'backward', 'short' etc, as there would be an inordinate number of possibles (shortish cover etc.). but i would advise incorporating long leg, leg gully, silly point, 4th slip (or just remove all the 1st/2nd/third business and call them all "slip"), square point, and longstop.

	JDass:	Jan 8th, 2010 at 20:46 GMT	-1 points
	Silly Point? Backward Point? Deep Backward Square Leg? Bat-Pad? Deep Cover?

	randomtran:	Feb 2nd, 2010 at 15:54 GMT	0 points
	BatPad? Do you play cricket, JDass? Thats not a fielding position! Pretty good quiz, but there are a few missing here as these other beautiful people have said..

	buckers:	Mar 5th, 2010 at 11:40 GMT	5 points
	does the bowler count. Bat pad isn't an actually a position it just refers to someone in one of the 'silly' positions

	johnsnow:	Jul 12th, 2010 at 14:31 GMT	-4 points
	Dreadful game. Absolutely woeful.

	MikeyB:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 08:58 GMT	2 points
	@randomtran: Bat-pad (also known as short leg) is an incredibly important position on the field. Although it is needless in the suggestions as 'short leg' is already up there. Great quiz, peanut4!

	World_B_Free:	Sep 28th, 2010 at 02:58 GMT	1 point
	Agree with Long Leg, Leg Gully, Silly Point and 4th Slip needing inclusion (these are far more commonly employed in field settings than, say, 'Fly Slip'). 'Longstop' exists in theory but is nonexistent at the senior levels (although the keeper's helmet does a fair job at this position, if you don't mind the five-run penalty)... What about 'Straight Hit'?

	loftyj37:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 14:55 GMT	3 points
	Good idea in principle but as many others have pointed out there are many, many others that could, indeed maybe should, have been included. Long leg, deep fine leg, backward square leg and silly point in particular. I like the idea of the 'map' with ALL the positions shown thereon.

	Brizza:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 10:48 GMT	2 points
	Also need to accept variations like "1st slip" or "long leg". Nice idea for a quiz, just needs a bit of work.

	Wrensidestorey:	Feb 2nd, 2011 at 20:32 GMT	-1 points
	You forgot straight hit too. He stands on the boundary in line with the stumps at the bowlers end.

	ChileNoseJam:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 19:10 GMT	1 point
	A quiz like this is never really going to work, because there's no definitive list of fielding positions (cow corner is another one which hasn't been mentioned yet); if you're restricting the list to those without a prefix added - eg no short third man, deep square leg etc. - then including silly mid on and silly mid off is inconsistent. The best (possibly only) way you could do it would be by identifying them from a diagram, which would make it clear which were included and which weren't.

	bluebellnutter:	Aug 19th, 2011 at 15:20 GMT	2 points
	You'd be better off just saying slip, as the Windies teams in the 1980s played with anything up to seven slips sometimes. Also missed out deep square leg, deep backward square leg, long stop (an uncommon one but nevertheless one which exists), deep cover, backward point, deep point, deep fine leg and doubtless others

	chrisb93:	Aug 30th, 2011 at 23:20 GMT	2 points
	COW CORNER!!!!!!!!! enough said.

	KirkMack:	Oct 1st, 2011 at 08:52 GMT	2 points
	No Slip

	sampauly:	Feb 2nd, 2012 at 18:29 GMT	1 point
	to many missing for my liking, silly mid on and off, yet no silly point, a position used considerable more than the other two and the big one backward point, where is that one!