What is the fielding position in cricket?

Answer 1

The Basic postions are Bowler Keeper Mid off Mid on mid wicket square leg deep backstop gully point and

cover there all trying to get the batsman out by getting to the ball as fast as possible and throwing it into either the keeper or the batsman as fast as they can.

Answer 2

There are two types of positions when talking about cricket, the most common being fielding positions, however the term is sometimes used when referring to where the players bat in the batting order.

Fielding Positions

• Wicket Keeper (specialist position).
• Slips (can range from 1st to 5th, sometimes more).
• Gully (can range from 1st to usually 2nd)
• Third Man
• Point (can be sometimes backward or forward).
• Cover (can be sometimes cover point, extra cover).
• Mid Off
• Mid On
• Mid Wicket
• Square Leg
• Fine Leg
• Bat Pad

In addition to these specific fielding positions, fielders can be positioned either shorter (closer to the bat), or deeper (further away from the bat). For example, Mid Off can become Deep Mid Off, and Cover can become Short Cover.

Some fielding positions which are very close to the bat in front of the wicket have the prefix 'silly'. Examples include Silly Mid Off instead of Mid Off, or Silly Point instead of Point. An exception to this is Square Leg, where the position is called 'Bat Pad', instead of Silly Square Leg.

Fielding Positions behind the wicket can be described as either 'squarer' or 'finer'. The squarer the fielding position, the closer it is to being horizontal with the batsman's crease. The finer the fielding position, the closer it is to being perpendicular to the batsmen's crease.

See the diagram for a visual description of the fielding positions described.

Answer 3

A fielding position refers to the place on the cricket ground a player from the fielding team stands to stop the batting team from taking runs. Some important positions are:

• Slips
• Point
• cover
• long on
• long off
• mid on
• mid off
• third man
• deep fine leg
• etc.

Answer 4

There are many cricketing positions. The most basic are:
Slips, Wicket Keeper, Covers, Mid-Wicker, Mid-on and Mid-off, Square leg, Backward Square, Fine leg, Third Man, Point. For all the cricketing positions: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Cricket_fielding_positions2.svg

Answer 5

There are a lot more than five fielding positions. The best way is with a diagram: http://www.botwcc.co.uk/fielding%20positions.jpg

That's not exhaustive though. You're not restricted to only those positions. You can stand anywhere you like.

Answer 6

well. you have the wicketkeeper, slip. gully, point, deep point, third man, fine leg, mid off, mid on. long off, long on, midwicket, deep midwicket, silly point, square leg, cover, extra cover, deep cover, short fine leg, short third man, deep backward square. these are all the position on a cricket field.

Answer 7

A CRICKETOR A BOWLER A BACK STOP A WICKET KEEPER A GULLY & A BULKER

Answer 8

1st slip,2nd slip,3rd slip,gully,mid-on,mid-off,point,3rdman,backward point.silly mid-on,cover,fine leg

Answer 9

it depends on what type of bowler if its a fast bowler then bowler keeper slip 3rd man 2nd man long on and ya