(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 .
Bouncer
Definition:
(n.) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
(n.) A boaster; a bully.
(n.) A bold lie; also, a liar.
(n.) Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Imran Yousuf, 24, a bouncer and former marine who served in Afghanistan, saw people pouring into the back hallway.
(2) Prasad, meanwhile, inserts a bouncer, and the over closes with the pleasing reappearance of the verbal.
(3) "S exual harassment is endemic," says Sophie Tolley, who until last month worked at student club nights around Edinburgh as a bouncer.
(4) A young man holds his hands aloft in victory as he is frog-marched out the door by bouncers.
(5) It is a figurehead maybe, although one that is less svelte mermaid than bullying bouncer.
(6) Then, following more mouth, another short one crumps the handle - they run two - before torso is offered to bouncer, it takes back and earns four.
(7) I would like to say thank you very much to the bouncers outside Turtle Bay,” she said.
(8) Next to Laura’s elegant effort, he looks like a steroidal bouncer who’d kick you off a glacier.
(9) A door guarded by bald, unsmiling men, the bouncers who stand forever as the bored sentinels of indifferent celebrity.
(10) Both teams left the pitch with a pile of grievances and the lingering image is of the referee, Jon Moss, being escorted off the pitch at the final whistle by a man wearing the look of a nightclub bouncer.
(11) The former bouncer Levi Bellfield has lost a bid to challenge his conviction for the kidnap and murder of Milly Dowler .
(12) Maybe a sling or a bouncer if you're feeling flush – and, of course, bottles and sterilisers if you're bottle feeding.
(13) There are a few things about his death that everyone agrees on: he was in a hilltop park eating a burrito and tortilla chips, wearing the Taser he carried for his job as a bouncer at a nightclub, when someone called 911 on him a little after 7pm on the evening of 21 March 2014.
(14) Bennett’s route into teaching encompassed six years running nightclubs in Soho, including a popular club on Wardour Street – sparking headlines that the government’s new behaviour tsar was a former bouncer.
(15) Molina hits a bouncer, Pedroia wisely just gets the out at first.
(16) A snazzy looking nightclub with bouncers who won’t let you in.
(17) The 78-year-old, a former bouncer who reportedly had three girlfriends before becoming a priest, described the family as “a factory of hope”, each one with “divine citizenship”.
(18) He used Unity Force as on-stage bouncers, renaming them Security of the First World, or S1Ws.
(19) Puig caps an 0-4 night with a bouncer to Kozma at shortstop who fires to second base, to take Gordon off the base paths.
(20) One of the earliest posts told the story of a young Asian woman who had run away from home only to find herself pursued by a posse of ex-rugby league players and bouncers hired by her father.