[Gail White]

Personally, I've always wondered about the meaning of a "maiden over".

[Allen Tice]

I had a maiden over for dinner the other day. Lot of good it did me.

[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

Gail

A maiden over is an over (i.e. a period of six balls from a bowler from one end of the pitch) in which the batsman has scored no runs. Nor has the bowler made a mess of things - i.e. he has neither bowled a wide (a ball out of the reach of the batsman) or a no-ball (usually occurring when the bowler oversteps the line).

Duncan

[Allen Tice]

Exactly......