A fielder is a player in cricket, baseball, or rounders who is fielding or one who has a particular skill at fielding. The fielders crouch around the batsman's wicket. one of the players who tries to catch the ball in a game of cricket or baseball
is any one of those 11 or fewer players currently on the field of play who together compose the fielding side This definition includes not only both the bowler and the wicket-keeper but also any legitimate substitute fielding instead of a nominated player It excludes any nominated player absent from the field of play, or who has been absent from the field of play and who has not obtained the umpire's permission to return A player going briefly outside the boundary in the course of discharging his duties as a fielder is not absent from the field of play nor, for the purposes of Law 2 5 (Fielder absent or leaving the field), is he to be regarded as having left the field of play