Gardening:

A batter prodding at the pitch with their bat between deliveries, often to flatten a bump or inspect features of the pitch. It can also be a calming ritual or considered time-wasting.

Genuine Number 11:

A consistently poor batter placed at the bottom of the batting order.

Getting One’s Eye In:

A batter playing low-risk defensive shots initially to assess conditions and bowlers before attempting riskier scoring shots.

Give (It) the Treatment:

Batter hitting a poorly bowled ball well, often for a boundary.

Given Man:

A skilled player given by a stronger team to a weaker team to balance teams’ strengths, historically used for handicapping and gambling.

Glance:

A shot played fine on the leg side, usually flicking a ball headed for the batter’s hips or thigh.

Glove:

(noun) Batting gloves worn by a batter for hand protection. Also, wicket-keeper’s gloves worn to catch balls.

(verb) Touch the ball with a batting glove while it’s in contact with the bat, considered part of the bat in certain circumstances.

Glovemanship (Glovework):

Skills of wicketkeeping, praised or criticized based on performance.

Golden Duck:

Dismissal for zero runs from the first ball faced in a batter’s innings.

Golden Pair (King Pair):

Dismissal for zero runs off the first ball faced in each of a batter’s two innings in a two-inning match

Good Length:

Ideal place for a stock delivery to pitch, making the batter uncertain about playing front-foot or back-foot shots.

Googly (Wrong’un or Bosie):

Deceptive spinning delivery by a wrist spin bowler that spins opposite to the stock delivery.

Gouging:

Intentional damage to the pitch or ball.

Gozza:

Australian term for a batter dismissed on the first ball they receive, similar to a Golden Duck.

Grafting:

Batting defensively, avoiding getting out, often under difficult conditions.

Grass:

To drop a catch, letting the ball fall onto the grass of the field.

Green Top:

Pitch with an unusually high amount of visible grass, expected to assist pace bowlers.

Grip:

Rubber casings on the bat handle.

How the bowler holds the ball or how the batter holds the bat.

Ground:

(noun) Collective term for the pitch, field, pavilion, and amenities for spectators. Large grounds may be referred to as stadiums.

(verb) To touch the bat onto the ground surface behind the popping crease.

(noun) Batter’s safe area on the pitch; they are ‘in their ground’ when part of the body or the bat touches the surface behind the popping crease.

Groundsman (Curator):

Person responsible for maintaining the cricket field and preparing the pitch.

Grubber:

Delivery that barely bounces.

(Taking) Guard:

Batter aligning their bat with a chosen stump(s) behind them to mark their position on the pitch.

Gully:

Close fielder near slip fielders, positioned at an angle of about 100 to 140 degrees between the stumps.