Flight (cricket)
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Flight, also known as Loop, is a description of a kind of delivery in cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

, when a bowler makes the ball rise above eyeline, before it descends once again on its trajectory
Trajectory
A trajectory is the path that a moving object follows through space as a function of time. The object might be a projectile or a satellite, for example. It thus includes the meaning of orbit—the path of a planet, an asteroid or a comet as it travels around a central mass...

 towards the batsman.

Flight is a key weapon of spin bowlers. The term is also known as loop or giving the ball air.

The opposite of a flighted delivery is one described as "flat", "flatter" or "flattish". In one-day cricket, spinners will often "push through" flatter deliveries, as they are perceived as more difficult to strike for boundaries by aggressive batsmen.
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