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The field

Every named fielding position, drawn to scale rather than sketched. The boundary is 70 yards from the centre of the pitch, the pitch is 22 yards, and the dashed line is the regulation 30-yard circle. Take it, print it, put it on your own page. The only condition is the credit.

Cricket fielding positions for a right-handed batter A scale diagram of a cricket field seen from above. The striker is at the bottom and the bowler runs in from the top. The boundary is 70 yards from the centre of the pitch, the pitch is 22 yards long, and the dashed inner circle is the regulation 30 yards from each middle stump. For a right-handed batter, from the batter's own point of view facing the bowler, the leg side is to their left and the off side to their right; drawn this way that puts the leg side on the left of the diagram and the off side on the right. 28 named positions are marked: Wicketkeeper, 1st slip, 2nd slip, 3rd slip, Gully, Silly point, Backward point, Point, Cover, Extra cover, Mid-off, Third man, Deep backward point, Deep cover, Deep extra cover, Long-off, Leg slip, Leg gully, Short leg, Backward square leg, Square leg, Midwicket, Mid-on, Long leg, Fine leg, Deep square leg, Deep midwicket, Long-on. For a left-handed batter every position is mirrored. Third Man, thirdman.pages.dev, CC BY 4.0. Cricket fielding positions for a right-handed batter Third Man https://thirdman.pages.dev/field Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Wicketkeeper 1st slip 2nd slip 3rd slip Gully Silly point Backward point Point Cover Extra cover Mid-off Third man Deep backward point Deep cover Deep extra cover Long-off Leg slip Leg gully Short leg Backward square leg Square leg Midwicket Mid-on Long leg Fine leg Deep square leg Deep midwicket Long-on LEG SIDE OFF SIDE bowler striker, right-handed 30-yard circle
All 28 named positions for a right-handed batter. Leg side left, off side right. Third Man, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.

Which side is which

From the batter's own point of view, facing the bowler, the leg side is to their left and the off side to their right. Drawn with the striker at the bottom, as above, that puts the leg side on the left of the page and the off side on the right. For a left-handed batter every position mirrors, and the names stay attached to the batter rather than to the ground: a left-hander's cover point stands where a right-hander's midwicket stood.

The bit the diagram gives away

Because the boundary is a circle around the middle of the pitch and the batter stands 11 yards behind that middle, a fielder on the rope is not a fixed distance from the bat. Third man, on the rope behind square, stands about 56 yards from the striker. Long-off, on the same rope, stands about 76. Twenty yards of difference, and it is why a thick edge behind square runs away for four while the same shot straight is cut off. The radii above are solved from that geometry, not eyeballed.

The numbers behind it

The positions above are not placed by eye, so the placement is publishable as data: fielding-positions.csv and fielding-positions.json give every position a bearing and a distance from the striker's stumps. Anyone drawing their own diagram, or building a scoring app, otherwise has to reconstruct those by eye from a picture.

A bearing with no stated zero is a number with no meaning, so: 0 degrees is straight down the pitch toward the bowler, positive bearings swing toward the off side, negative toward the leg side, and distances are yards from the striker's stumps. For a left-handed batter, negate every bearing.

A blank one, to draw on

The same field with the eight regions commentary actually names, and nothing plotted in them. Print it, draw an innings onto it, put it in a coaching note. It is a template on purpose.

Blank cricket wagon wheel, right-handed batter An empty wagon wheel for plotting where a batter scored. A cricket field seen from above with the striker at the bottom, divided into the eight regions commentary names: LONG-OFF, COVER, POINT, THIRD MAN, LONG-ON, MIDWICKET, SQUARE LEG, FINE LEG. Leg side left, off side right, for a right-handed batter; mirror it for a left-hander. No data is plotted; the file is a template. Third Man, thirdman.pages.dev, CC BY 4.0. Blank cricket wagon wheel, right-handed batter Third Man https://thirdman.pages.dev/field Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International LONG-OFF COVER POINT THIRD MAN LONG-ON MIDWICKET SQUARE LEG FINE LEG striker, right-handed LEG SIDE OFF SIDE
Blank wagon wheel, right-handed batter. The eight regions are 45-degree sectors from the striker. Third Man, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.

Using it

The file is assets/cricket-field.svg. It is plain SVG with no external references, it draws itself in currentColor so it inherits your text colour on a light or a dark page, and it carries its own licence in a <metadata> block. Screen readers get every position name from the <desc>.

The blank wagon wheel is assets/wagon-wheel-template.svg, on the same terms.

Attribution, if you want it ready to paste:

<a href="https://thirdman.pages.dev/field">
  <img src="https://thirdman.pages.dev/assets/cricket-field.svg"
       alt="Cricket fielding positions for a right-handed batter">
</a>
<p>Diagram by <a href="https://thirdman.pages.dev">Third Man</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>.</p>

Licensed CC BY 4.0. If a position is in the wrong place, that is worth more to this blog than being left alone. The numbers behind the pieces are on the numbers page.