Cricket Fielding Positions

Listening to the Ashes series and don't know all the cricket fielding positions?

Simply bring up this page so you can refer to it when listening to the radio.

This diagram will help you work out you with your Mid Offs from your Long Ons as well as your Silly Mid Ons from your Short Mid Wickets.

1. Wicket Keeper
2. First Slip
3. Second slip
4. Third Slip
5. Fly Slip
6. Long Stop
   
7. Third man
8. Gully
9. Deep Gully
10. Silly Point
11. Point
12. Deep Point
13. Cover Sweeper
    
14. Cover Point
15. Extra Cover
16. Deep Extra Cover
17. Silly Mid Off
18. Mid Off
19. Long Off
20. Straight Hit
21. Silly Mid On
22. Mid On
23. Long On
24. Forward Short Leg
25. Short Mid Wicket
26. Mid Wicket
    
27. Deep Mid Wicket
28. Sweeper
    
29. Short Square Leg
30. Square Leg
31. Deep Square Leg
32. Leg Gully
33. Long Leg
    
34. Leg Slip
    
35. Short Fine Leg
36. Deep Fine Leg
    

Working out the cricket fielding positions
Reading off the list of cricket fielding position, you could get completely confused, although there is a bit of method in all this madness!

Anything with position with 'Leg' in it refers to the Leg side which is the side of the batsman's leg eg. Square Leg, Leg Gully etc.

Any position with 'On' in it also refers to the On side which is batsman's leg side again eg. Mid On, Long On etc.

Oppositely, cricket fielding positions with 'Off' in it refers to the batsman's off side which is the opposite of the leg side eg. Mid Off, Long Off etc.

Distances of the fielding positions from the batsman are described as Silly, which is very close, Short which is quite close, Mid which is a mid point to the boundary and Long and Deep which are closer to the boundary.

Of course you can't do all of the cricket positions at once!

I hope it all make sense! Enjoy the Ashes!