Definition of "no-ball" []

• In cricket:
• To condemn as a ‘no ball.’ See no ball, under ball.
• To declare (a bowler) to have delivered a ‘no ball.’

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Cook and Strauss were beginning to threaten several of their own partnership records when the captain was bowled round his pads, sweeping at leg-spinner Amit Mishra but it appeared that umpire Simon Taufel had missed a Mishra over-step and therefore failed to call a no-ball."
• "Television replays demonstrated only after Strauss had been replaced by Ian Bell that umpire Simon Taufel had missed a Mishra over-step and therefore failed to call a no-ball."
• "The umpires checked for the no-ball, as they did with Tait's first wicket, but again he was just about okay.14th over: New Zealand 66-4 Taylor 4, Styris 0 A double-wicket maiden for Mitchell Johnson."