Answers to last week's sports brain teasers

Here are the answers to last week’s brain teasers:

QUESTION 1:

Answer: ‘Six yard box’ – a football term for an enclosed area inside the penalty area, extending 6 yards from goal.

QUESTION 2:

Answer: ‘Dilscoop’ – a cricket batting stroke, better known as a “ramp shot”, developed by Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dishan

QUESTION 3:

Answer: ‘Scrambled Seam’ – a cricketing term where the seam of the ball doesn’t stay perfectly upright after release.

QUESTION 4:

Answer: ‘Squeaky bum time’ – a sports term in general used to refer to the tense, final stages of a match/game.

QUESTION 5:

Answer: ‘Crosscourt backhand’ – a tennis shot where the player hits the ball with a swing that comes across the body and diagonally across the opponent’s court.

QUESTION 6:

Answer: ‘Spot fixing’ – an Illegal activity in sport in which a specific aspect of a game, unrelated to the final result but on which a betting market exists, is fixed.

QUESTION 7:

Answer: ‘Throw in the towel’ – To quit; when a boxer is too beat up to continue, his coach throws a towel into the ring to signal that the fight is over.

QUESTION 8:

Answer: ‘Kick serve’ – a tennis serve that is hit with topspin, causing it to bounce high upon hitting the ground.

QUESTION 9:

Answer: ‘DaisyCutter’ – a cricketing term for a ball hit or bowled so as to roll around the ground.

QUESTION 10:

Answer: ‘Flat track bully’ – a cricketing term for a batsman high in the batting order who is good only when the pitch does not give the bowlers much help.