(n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some slow bowlers can induce the batsman to misjudge where the ball will hit the ground.
(2) If the batsman's head is directly in the line of flight, the velocity ratio of the retinal images in the left and right eyes provides a precise cue to the trajectory of the ball in the horizontal plane.
(3) The bowler's applying the pressure, the batsman's on the defensive.
(4) Buttler, 23 years of age, was mesmerising and England’s best batsman by a very disturbing margin, though Ravi Bopara hit a commendable 51 off 47 balls.
(5) A year ago, he wasn't simply an outstanding batsman but an epochal, barely believable phenomenon.
(6) The man to captain was Frank Worrell, a great batsman, a great cricketing mind, and an extraordinary human being.
(7) Karunaratne tries his best to run Sangakkara out by sending back with the new batsman wanting to take a quick single.
(8) Sachin Tendulkar, who yesterday became the first batsman to score 50 centuries in Test cricket, was left stranded on 111 as the tourists' two remaining wickets fell cheaply.
(9) I want to give it a go, I want to test myself as a coach," said Wright, a former Kiwi batsman.
(10) In contrast, an analysis of handedness in top batsman, as measured by bowling hand, failed to find any evidence of a handedness effect.
(11) And agreed on Morgan, but it's beginning to look like he might be the latest Test-class batsman not to make it at Test level.
(12) After compiling an extraordinarily brave double century against India in the tied Test at Chennai in 1985, Australian batsman Dean Jones described what it was like to bat in infernal conditions: “When you’re urinating in your pants and vomiting 15 times, you’ve got massive problems.” When finally dismissed for 210, Jones was taken to hospital on a saline drip.
(13) Rogers offered one last demonstration for the summer of the skill and grit with which he finally established himself as a Test batsman at the age of 35 – he turned 36 in August – although he also had to ride his luck to make 65 from 85 balls on a seaming Headingley pitch.
(14) To hit the ball with the centre of percussion of a bat so that the ball goes where he intends it to go, a batsman must estimate visually where the ball will be at a specific future time (when), and coordinate his swing accordingly.
(15) But only part of the necessary information about position (ie where) is available to the batsman.
(16) It was the second notable feat achieved by an Indian batsman after Rahul Dravid became the third man, after Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting, to reach 12,000 runs in Test cricket.
(17) After all the point of the sledging is to distract the batsman from playing the proper shot."
(18) Sachin Tendulkar today became the first batsman to score 50 centuries in Test cricket.
(19) That is the element of bat versus ball and there has got to be a little bit of an element of, not fear, but, as a batsman, you have to protect yourself and if you lose that I think it shifts the balance between bat and ball too firmly in the favour of the batsman.” Hughes was wearing a Masuri helmet when he was hit.
(20) The former England captain Nasser Hussain has called for cricket helmet manufacturers to consider new methods of protecting players after the death of the Australia batsman Phillip Hughes .
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.