Culture trivia
Name a cricket shot
“Name a cricket shot” is one of 188 culture prompts in Icillion. Of its 88 accepted answers, 7 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Cover drive
- Pull shot
- Hook shot
- Sweep
- Straight drive
- Cut
- Glance
One step down
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Reverse sweep
- Switch hit
- Scoop
- Ramp
- Upper cut
- Square cut
- Late cut
- Leg glance
- Off drive
- On drive
- Square drive
- Hook
- Pull
- Slog
- Slog sweep
- Lofted drive
- Flick
- Whip
- Paddle
- Paddle sweep
- Block
- Forward defensive
- Backward defensive
- Leave
- Edge
- Nick
- Slice
- Six
- Four
- Boundary
- Single
- Dot ball
- Maiden
- Yorker
- Bouncer
- Full toss
- Beamer
- Googly
- Doosra
- Teesra
- Carrom ball
- Flipper
- Leg break
- Off break
- Arm ball
- Slider
- Top spinner
- Wrong'un
- Inswinger
- Outswinger
- Reverse swing
- Cutter
- Slower ball
- Knuckle ball
Answers by level
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsCover drive · Pull shot · Hook shot
- Below the Surface54 answers · 25 ptsReverse sweep · Switch hit · Scoop …
- The Deep16 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss10 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 16 answers starting with C, D, G, H, K, L, N, P, R and T. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 88 answers in total, 47 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Cut”. Longest: “Kevin Pietersen switch hit”.
- S, C and B are the most common first letters; together they start 33% of the answers.
How to go deeper
- Start with S: 14 of the answers begin with it.
- Cover drive, Pull shot and Hook shot are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Art movements and architectural styles have many lesser-known names.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a cricket shot”?
- The usual first answers are Cover drive, Pull shot, Hook shot, Sweep and Straight drive. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a cricket shot”?
- 88 in all: 7 on The Tip, 54 Below the Surface, 16 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a cricket shot” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Cut” and the longest is “Kevin Pietersen switch hit”.
- How hard is “Name a cricket shot”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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