Maiden over
also: maiden
An over in which the batting side scores no runs off the bowler.
A maiden is six legal balls with nothing charged to the bowler: no runs off the bat, no wides, no no-balls. Byes and leg byes do not spoil a maiden, because they are not the bowler's runs. A wicket does not make it a maiden or stop it being one.
Maidens are the currency of Test and first-class cricket, where building pressure is the point, and they are rare in T20. An over that is a maiden in the ball-by-ball record has six deliveries in which the bowler's runs total zero, which is also how you can find them yourself.
Counting an over with no scoring shots as a maiden. A single wide or no-ball in it means it is not one, even if the batter never hit the ball.
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