A cake. As opposed to a caker. Not really a relevant image to accompany this article.

A caker is a term used to describe an almost certain winning result in a Grades cricket match. Naturally  applicable when a top of the table side meets a struggling one, it is more commonly used by clubs who can lay claim to having a rival of similar quality "in their pocket", invariably defeating said rival on the majority of occassions.

The four grades that constitute the Aberdeenshire Cricket Association will all probably have at least one whipping boy and for the remaining clubs, playing the club in question should be "a caker" although the reality is that such are the low expectations and ambitions of these whipping boys, that they may choose to play for a draw from the outset in an attempt to claim a (dubious) moral victory.

However the purest definition of a caker is best exemplified by the regular meetings between Cults and Kintore, both Grade 1 sides and consistent title challengers. Kintore, no matter how good a season they are having, always lose to Cults, thereby making the Kintore fixture a caker to the Cults club.

Etymology

A Cakewalk is a traditional African American form of music and dance which originated among slaves in the US South. The form was originally known as the chalk line walk; it takes its name from competitions slaveholders sometimes held, in which they offered slices of hoecake as prizes for the best dancers.

The dance was invented as a satirical parody of the formal European ballroom dances preferred by white slave owners, and featured exaggerated imitations of the dance ritual, combined with traditional African dance steps. One common form of cakewalk dance involved couples linked at the elbows, lining up in a circle, dancing forward alternating a series of short hopping steps with a series of very high kicking steps. Costumes worn for the cakewalk often included large, exaggerated bow ties, suits, canes, and top hats.

Caker is a Scottish derivative of the word cakewalk which, in this sense, means something that is easy and requiring little effort. How this relates to the stuff above, Gawd only knows.