Gentlemen's Game: Cricket & History

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Sprint twenty-two yards to change the scoreboard balance (3)
• Bend forward after sending six legal deliveries down the strip (3)
• Delivery artist charging twenty paces with a rigid elbow (6)
• Remains of an urn commemorated in biennial sporting combat (3)
• Fielder standing ridiculously close at short leg like an eager dog (5)
• Roaring inquiry of 'Howzat?' directed towards the men in white (6)
• Willows implement swung by an executioner of leather (3)
• Monumental individual milestone raising a standing ovation (7)
• Thinnest sliver of contact sending leather to the slips (4)
• Polished half of leather nurtured to provoke reverse aerodynamics (5)
• Wayward projectile straying outside the painted tramlines (4)
• Rare finish where both tallies match and all are dismissed (3)
• Protective pads, box, and helmet shielding mortal limbs (6)
• Six balls without conceding a single digit to the opposition (6)
• Illegal chuck or foot-fault resulting in a free reprieve (6)
• Three wooden stakes, two loose crossbars, or an individual dismissal (6)

Down

• Deceptive off-spinner's trick that breaks like a leg-break (6)
• Neutral arbiter in white or dark coat dispensing fate with fingers (6)
• Curving flight through humid atmosphere confounding the eye (5)
• Gloved sentry positioned right behind the wooden trio (6)
• Low-skidding trap clicked from thumb and fingers by a leg-break maestro (7)
• Hostile 1932 English tactic targeting torsos with packed leg traps (8)
• Central strip measuring exactly twenty-two yards from peg to peg (5)
• Abrupt dismissal where pads stand accused before the timber (3)
• Boy from Bowral whose 99.94 benchmark stands immortal (7)
• Bonus point gained without the wood ever kissing leather (5)
• Art of revolution fooling willow masters off the dry track (4)
• Fielding coordinate sitting ninety degrees offside of the striker (5)
• Small wooden crosspiece that falls when defense collapses (4)

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