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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...

 terminology, a batsman who bats left handed is described as a 'left hand' bat. However, a bowler who bowls the ball
Cricket ball
A cricket ball is a hard, solid leather ball used to play cricket. Constructed of cork and leather, a cricket ball is heavily regulated by cricket law at first class level...

with his or her left hand is, by convention, called a 'left-arm' or 'left arm' (rather than 'left hand' or 'left-handed') bowler.
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