Yorker

A yorker is aimed at the base of the stumps. It pitches so full that the batter has almost no time to get the bat down, and a batter who misjudges it is bowled, trapped lbw or digs it out for nothing. It is the standard death-overs ball in limited-overs cricket, and the word gives this site its name.

It is hard to bowl because the margin is a few inches: a fraction short and it becomes a half-volley that can be hit for four, a fraction long and it is a full toss. Because ball-by-ball records do not store where a ball pitched, a yorker cannot be counted from scores alone; what shows up in the data is the effect, a dot ball, a wicket or a run saved in the last overs.