Slip (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, slip is a fielding position on the off side of the wicket-keeper, usually placed in that position in anticipation of a "snick", or edge, from the batsman which is too far from the wicket-keeper for him to catch comfortably. Many teams employ two or three slips (numbered from the slip fielder closest to the wicket-keeper: first slip, second slip, etc.).
The gully fielder is an extension of the line of slips and fields almost square to the batsman; gully is also the name given to that area of the field.
On occasion, four or five slips are called for. Australia used seven slips and a gully against Zimbabwe's lower order batsmen in a One-day International in 2001. England also used seven slips in the first Test against West Indies in Jamaica in 2004.
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