(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 .
Hundred
Definition:
(n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C.
(n.) A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.
(a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(3) One hundred and twelve dogs, including twenty C3-deficient dogs, were studied over a period of 6 years.
(4) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(5) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(6) Four hundred mice were innouclated in the hind footpads with 10(8) organisms.
(7) Four hundred and twenty-five lesions were dilated in 370 patients.
(8) The leak also included the script for an in-house Sony Pictures recruitment video and performance reviews for hundreds employees.
(9) One hundred and sixteen patients with advanced and metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were randomized to treatment with combined Streptozotocin and 5-fluorouracil or combined Streptozotocin and cyclophosphamide.
(10) Four hundred patients with resectable colon and rectal cancers were operated on by 37 surgeons at 31 institutions.
(11) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
(12) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(13) Two hundred eleven adult emergency hand patients were prospectively tested over a 1-year period for drug and alcohol use.
(14) One hundred consecutive patients with uncomplicated gonorrhea were treated with 800 mg of cefixime.
(15) One-hundred characters were derived from morphological features, physiological and biochemical activities and SEM micrographs.
(16) Four hundred patients who were admitted over the last three years with myocardial infarction were questioned about the presence and pattern of angina before its onset.
(17) Two hundred fifty-one cervical and 209 male urethral specimens from three Richmond health clinics were read by direct immunofluorescence staining and compared with cell culture technics using iodine staining.
(18) One hundred and forty six calving interval records were built up from 64 N'Dama cows maintained for 3.5 years under a high natural tsetse challenge in Zaire.
(19) Serial sections from over a hundred such structures show that these are tubular structures and that the 'test-tube and ring-shaped' forms described in the literature are no more than profiles one expects to see when a tubular structure is sectioned.
(20) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.