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A single dot in the scorebook, recording a delivery from which nothing was scored.
Also known as: Dot, Dot ball
A dot in the bowler's over records a legal delivery off which no run was scored. Six dots make a maiden over. The mark is scorebook convention rather than a Law, but it is universal.
Records a delivery from which no run was scored. Six such deliveries in one over make a maiden, a statistic the Laws recognise even though the notation itself is scorers' convention.
The phrase 'dot ball' has passed from the scorebook into ordinary commentary, where it describes the event rather than the mark.
A single small dot, written in one of the six boxes recording an over.
A dot records nothing happening; a W records a wicket falling. Both occupy one box of an over and both mean no runs were scored, which is why a hurried scorer can conflate them.