(1) Moments later Gary is being ushered out in a blur of drivers and batmen and image-straighteners.
Batsmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Batsman
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested in this paper that batsmen supplement inadequate retinal image information about where the ball will hit the ground with prior knowledge built up over the preceding few deliveries.
(2) We comment on the need for appropriate facial protection for batsmen and close fielders.
(3) The visual performance of cricket batsmen is simulated over a wide range of ambient illumination.
(4) He found a surface receptive to his spinners and pitched the ball easily on to a length, which was enough to torment the most experienced of batsmen.
(5) 6.19pm BST 12th over: England 25-0 (Cook 9, Robson 15) Nasser thinks Eranga's been impressive, and in a way he has - full length, decent line - but the batsmen have been in such little trouble that it's hard to get excited.
(6) Smith also praised India's batsmen for reaching 459 in the second innings, singling out the India captain, MS Dhoni, who scored 90, for special praise.
(7) 4.51pm BST 84th over: England 196-7 (Ali 67, Jordan 15) Eranga finds some swing and Jordan's leading edge – the batsmen is looking to play to midwicket but the ball loops a couple of yards short of the man at mid off.
(8) At one stage in the proceedings the court heard a tape in which Majeed talked about the "two bowlers, two batsmen and two all-rounders" he had under his control.
(9) England need to do something here, both batsmen look comfortable for the first time in time.
(10) "Dhoni played really well and the other batsmen also stuck it out," he said.
(11) In the batsmen’s mind, this always leaves a gap somewhere.
(12) It’s an incredibly safe game but I think this will shake batsmen slightly out of what might have been complacency,” he said.
(13) That's 15 extras so far in this innings by my reckoning, though in Prior's defence the ball is swerving about out there after it has passed the batsmen.
(14) Thus two crucial batsmen, part of Glamorgan's foreign legion, Chris Cooke and Jim Allenby, were sent on their way.
(15) It has been suggested that successful batsmen in cricket are not distinguished by their fast speed of visual information intake.
(16) The correlation was -0.63 (p less than 0.005), suggesting that the successful batsmen were faster at picking up information from briefly presented visual displays.
(17) There were more off-cutters than we remember in the halcyon days of 2005, but the occasional ball hit the bat with a thud and he always kept the batsmen guessing.
(18) It has been a similar story among the batsmen, with insufficient middle-order support for Sam Robson (1,180 runs at 47.2) and the admirable Rogers, who averaged 56.2 in scoring 1,068 in only 12 championship appearances.
(19) Sri Lanka's batsmen haven't done especially well in English conditions, yet were given a sub-continental pitch on which to ease themselves in.
(20) Although Nottinghamshire are considerably better off with two wins so far, including an opening success when Worcestershire went to Trent Bridge, both counties are looking for a greater output from their batsmen.