Words & TermsSport and recreation
six-and-out
Also: six and out
A backyard-cricket rule under which hitting a six over the nominated boundary also puts the batter out.
In a sentence
The fence was the boundary, so every six was six-and-out.
Where it came from
A compressed statement of the backyard-cricket rule: a hit scoring six is also out. Hyphenation varies. Multiple independent backyard-cricket rules describe six-and-out: a six over a boundary ends the batter's innings, usually with ball retrieval.
- Initial era
- 2000–today
- Where used
- Australia; related rules occur elsewhere
- Use today
- Current