Agricultural shot is a term used in which of the following sports?

Correct — C. An agricultural shot is cricket slang for a wild, cross-batted heave across the line of the ball — the batter swings like a farmer scything rather than playing straight.

Commentators use it for the slog aimed at cow corner, the boundary region between deep mid-wicket and long-on, where such strokes usually go.

It describes a way of using a bat, which is what rules out the three ball-and-racket sports on the list → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Football — Football has no bat and so no stroke to name this way. Its terms of art are offside, free kick and clearance, and a wild swing there is simply a bad shot.
• (b)
  Table Tennis — Table tennis names its strokes loop, chop, block and smash. The vocabulary is technical and taught stroke by stroke, and agricultural shot is not one of them.
• (d)
  Lawn Tennis — Lawn tennis has deuce, love, ace and volley. Its slang for a mishit borrows from racket play, not from farming, and the sport has no batting stroke.

SSC's sports block leans on vocabulary matching: give a term, ask the game. Cricket supplies the largest share of these because its slang is the richest — googly, doosra, silly point, cow corner, agricultural shot.

The safe method is to ask what physical act the term describes. A word about swinging a bat across the line can only belong to a bat-and-ball game.

Key facts

• An agricultural shot is a cross-batted slog played across the line of the ball.
• Cow corner is the boundary region between deep mid-wicket and long-on where such slogs usually travel.
• Deuce, love and ace belong to tennis scoring, not to cricket.

Common traps

• Looking for the phrase in the Laws of Cricket, failing to find it, and rejecting cricket.
• Reading agricultural as a hint about a field sport played on grass, which fits tennis and football equally.
• Separating agricultural shot from the cow shot, when both name the same swing.

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