Name a fielding position in cricket: rare answers

Answering “Name a fielding position in cricket”? Our list has 28 answers, sorted below from the deepest cuts to the picks everyone types first. Wicket-keeper, Slip and Gully only score 10. Deep cuts such as Leg slip, Leg gully and Fly slip score 85 points.

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Accepted answers: 28
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 7 (25%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 11 answers
First letters: 11 different; S is the most common (8)

🦑 Midnight Zone: 7 answers (25%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 9 answers (32%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 9 answers (32%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 3 answers (11%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

This list has no Abyssal tier, so the Midnight Zone is as deep as it goes: Leg slip, Leg gully, Fly slip and Short fine leg and 3 more, worth 85 points each.

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Leg slip, Leg gully, Fly slip, Short fine leg, Straight hit, Long stop, Bowler

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Long off, Deep midwicket, Deep square leg, Deep cover, Deep point, Silly point, Silly mid-off, Silly mid-on, Short leg

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Point, Cover, Mid-off, Mid-on, Mid-wicket, Square leg, Fine leg, Third man, Long on

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Wicket-keeper, Slip, Gully

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Straight hit: Straight
Deep midwicket: Cow corner
Deep cover: Sweeper, Deep extra cover
Short leg: Forward short leg, Bat-pad
Point: Backward point
Cover: Covers, Extra cover
Mid-wicket: Midwicket
Square leg: Backward square leg
Fine leg: Long leg
Wicket-keeper: Wicketkeeper
Slip: Slips, First slip, Second slip, Third slip

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.