Cricketing Terms 2

A couple of meanings for this word:
a) The time a batsman spends batting is called his innings. So scoring 90 would be good 'innings'. Hell, 90 would be a bloody miracle in our team!
b) Depending on the type of cricket, a game may be one 'innings' or two. If it's one, Team A bats first until they run out of overs, or wickets. Everyone then has lunch or tea. Then Team B then bat until they 1) run out of overs without scoring more runs than Team A. 2) run out of wickets without scoring more... or 3) score more runs than Team A. In 1) & 2), Team A wins. In 3, Team B prevails. Got that? Simple enough.
Where it gets complicated is with two innings' matches. And that will need a whole page devoted to it, so come back again when I've worked out how to explain it!
Hit Wicket
The bowler bowls. The batsman, his bat, or his pads/gloves, hit the stumps in trying to hit the ball (or get out of the way of it) and the bails fall off. Out, 'Hit Wicket'.

Four
Not 'fore' as in golf, but the number of runs scored if the ball goes over the boundary bouncing at least once. The batsmen do not have to run. If the ball goes over the boundary without bouncing, see six.

Duck
Rather quaint term to indicate that a batsman scored ZERO. Should a batsman be out first ball, without scoring, he is said to have got a GOLDEN DUCK. Second ball with no score equals a SILVER. In a two innings match, two scores of zero equals a PAIR - a GOLDEN PAIR if it's two first-ball dismissals. And it's a long way back to the dressing room

Drive

An attacking stroke played by the batsman along the ground, usually a cover drive, on drive, off drive or straight drive.