What it means The batsman is a lucky dog

What it also means The bowler is a dog

What you hope it doesn't mean That the ball has been treated like a spittoon

Best one ever Chetan Sharma to Javed Miandad

What it means Flaying outside the off stump

Or what you do when You're too cool to fish outside the off stump

Bespoke L Siva way of pronouncing it Swinngannamiss: one word

Presumably meant to subliminally conjure up images of School-ground play equipment being used by girls

What it means A passably good delivery that follows a row of rubbish ones

What it really means He doesn't have pace or bounce or any of that macho stuff, but he can wobble it about.

What it really really means He isn't going to take a wicket here, is he?

What it means Goes hog wild at a ball outside off stump and gets it to the fence via second slip's fingers

What you wish it was describing A meeting between Freddy Krueger and Ravi Shastri

What it means He knew nothing about that delivery, did he?

Not to be confused with A zit on Jimmy Anderson's immaculately moisturised face

What it means Get runs

What it means on subcontinental tours Delhi Belly

What it does not mean A collision with the scoreboard

What it means The batsman's most preferred stroke

What we thought it meant till five seconds ago The batsman's most boring stroke

What it could possibly mean in some remote corner of the world A tequila-soaked breakfast roll

What it means The pitch will assist the bowlers

What it doesn't mean The bowlers will be auctioned for astronomical sums at the IPL auction

What it also doesn't mean Having no meaningful role to play on the subcontinental pitches at the World Cup, the bowlers will spend most of their time shopping

Submitted by: Shaishavi Kadakia

What it means Looking to deliver the final blow on the opposition

What you hoped it meant Harbhajan. Axe. Sreesanth.

Applicable at Just about any stage of a match, except when the side's on 600 for 2 on a flat pitch in India.

In other words Not worth saying at all, yes.

What it means It's a seaming, swinging, Headingley sort of pitch, better beware

In other words Not the 2011 World Cup

You are, though, free to Disrespect the bowler if he's Sreesanth

What it means The lower-order batsmen are unexpectedly scoring runs

What it doesn't mean but we'd obviously make a joke about The dog from the IPL is back on the field

What it certainly doesn't mean and you didn't think we'd make a joke about The lower-order batsmen partying with their wives and girlfriends

What it is supposed to mean He can turn a peach into a pie

What it really means He can't play a good length ball any other way

Also used to Explain away silly dismissals that put the team under even more pressure

Submitted by: Ravi Kandula

What it means Different personalities should be welcome in cricket

What it doesn't mean That the game is signing up for Twitter

Also doesn't mean That Bugs and Daffy should don whites

Not to be mistaken for A search for fallen currency on the pitch

What it means This match is going to get very boring very soon

Submitted by: Aditya Iyengar, India

What it means The ability of a fast bowler to release and land the ball with a bolt upright seam, making sideways movement more likely than not

Not to be confused with jargon-filled Powerpoint slideshow by John Buchanan on the art of fast bowling

Also not to be confused with A confusingly clichéd title for the post-match award for the best seamer on show

Also see Converting ones into twos

What it really means Hello, I'm L Siva, and they're running the way they're supposed to and not like they used to in my day, would you believe, the greedy little gits.

Question it begs Does the winner's cheque go to cricket then?

Also see Good cricket all round.

What it really means I get paid to talk garbage. I'm the winner.

What it means Respect the good ones, thrash the bad ones within an inch of their lives

Or as Ravi Shastri would say Play sensible cricket

What it means if you're Virender Sehwag Respect the good ones and thrash them within an inch of their lives. Kill the bad ones

What it means Inability to score runs consistently over a period of time

Not to be confused with Nicotine patches for weight watchers

Also not to be confused with Jacques Kallis' scalp before his remarkable hair transplant

Submitted by: Jay, USA