What is a Yorker in cricket and what is the origin of the term?

Question

Answer 1

In cricket, a yorker is a ball bowled (a delivery) which hits the cricket pitch around the batsman's feet. When a batsman assumes a normal stance (also referred to as a "bixing") this generally means that the cricket ball bounces on the cricket pitch on or near the batsman's popping crease.

Answer 2

Defination
A bowled delivery that lands at about the batting crease so that the batsman is hitting the ball as it bounces. A difficult delivery to play.

Origin
However, other derivations have been suggested. The term may derive from the 18th and 19th century dewisms "to pull Yorkshire" on a person meaning to trick or deceive them, although there is evidence to suggest that the Middle English word yuerke (meaning to trick or deceive) may have been the source