(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 .
Fielder
Definition:
(n.) A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prince Fielder is up next and he grounds out to first.
(2) Roger Kirkby: All stores in LA were giving 50% off Puig Shirts today, to match his fielding percentage last night Does this mean all Prince Fielder shirts are free to match his lack of RBI?
(3) Fielder has accounted for more outs in this series than some of the Sox starters.
(4) 2.38am GMT 7th Inning Stretch Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.38am GMT Giants 2 - Tigers 0, Top 7th Gregor Blanco bounces to first but the throw is off line and Fielder has to dive to his right to get it while Blanco slides head first, OUT!
(5) On 2-2, Fielders swings and misses on a high fastball to strike out.
(6) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.41pm BST 60th over: England 133-6 (Ali 39, Prior 1) Prior gets underway via inside edge off to the leg side, bringing Ali back, a square of fielders around him.
(7) Last night, Henri Brandman, who is representing Fielder-Civil, said in a statement: "I can confirm that I have been instructed to commence divorce proceedings on the grounds of Amy's adultery."
(8) Great going by Pedey & Salty #RedSox there ;-P @HunterFelt @BBC5LSX October 20, 2013 3.35am BST Tigers 2 - Red Sox 1, top of the 6th Prince Fielder is still the MVP for the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS.
(9) Target Field, a $545m limestone-encased jewel that opened in 2010, produced an All-Star cycle just eight batters in, with hitters showing off flashy neon-bright spikes and fielders wearing All-Star caps with special designs for the first time.
(10) On Tuesday, the indigenous activist Jackie Fielder helped lead a protest at the San Francisco board of supervisors, which she is hoping to persuade to divest from DAPL-connected banks.
(11) Then Smith ruins my conceit by grounding to Prince Fielder.
(12) Michael Young pinch hits for the pitcher and grounds out to third, before Carl Crawford launches a ball to center field - Jay dives to his right and can't come up with it, and so it's a one-out base hit for the Dodgers left fielder.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tents set ablaze at North Dakota pipeline protest campsite “The thing about the No DAPL movement is that it’s everywhere,” Fielder said.
(14) Fielder just looks far from his best October 20, 2013 It would be interesting to see how these League Championship Series would have gone had Hanley Ramirez been fully healthy for the Dodgers and Miguel Cabrera wasn't playing through a gazillion trillion injuries.
(15) Now Cabrera is on for Prince Fielder as Tim Lincecum heads out to the bullpen to warm up.
(16) From these findings, we diagnosed this case as acute isolated (Fielder's) myocarditis.
(17) However, the speedy Crisp gets to it for the out, Fielder has to return to first.
(18) We comment on the need for appropriate facial protection for batsmen and close fielders.
(19) 2.59am GMT Giants 3 - Tigers 3, Bottom 8th Prince Fielder is up next.
(20) 2.48am BST Richie (@richiemetsoh) @LengelDavid 'those are two big men on the screen, Fielder and Ortiz.