What's the difference between batsman and runner?

Batsman


Definition:

  • (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 .

Runner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
  • (n.) A detective.
  • (n.) A messenger.
  • (n.) A smuggler.
  • (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.
  • (n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
  • (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
  • (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
  • (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
  • (n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
  • (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
  • (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
  • (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
  • (n.) Any cursorial bird.
  • (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
  • (n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
  • (2) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (3) For recreational runners who have sustained injuries, especially within the past year, a reduction in running to below 32 km per week is recommended.
  • (4) In combined groups of male runners and controls, there was a highly significant positive correlation between the serum HDL-cholesterol level and the LPL activity of adipose tissue expressed per tissue weight (r = +0.72, p less than 0.001) or per whole body fat (r = +0.62, p less than 0.001).
  • (5) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
  • (6) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
  • (7) Runners at the corners for Daniel Descalso who he hits a hard ground ball right to Barmes at shortstop (not second base), he steps on the bag at second to get Freese for one out, fires to first to get the second out, and that's what we call an inning ending double play...or sometimes we call it a pitchers best friend.
  • (8) The runners showed less rapid eye-movement activity during sleep than the nonrunners under both experimental conditions, indicating a strong and unexpected effect of physical fitness on this measure.
  • (9) Blade Runner: the Final Cut is re-released on 3 April
  • (10) The best advertisement for the format came four hours before the final even started, when, in ITV1's coverage of the FA Cup Final, the teenager Faryl Smith, a 2008 runner-up, sang the national anthem solo and faultlessly in front of a full crowd at Wembley.
  • (11) We tested the hypothesis that the neuroendocrine control of gonadotropin secretion is altered in certain women distance runners with secondary amenorrhea.
  • (12) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
  • (13) To determine the prevalence of various gastrointestinal disturbances related to long-distance running and its effect on weight, diet and everyday digestive problems, we gave a questionnaire to 279 leisure-time marathon runners, comprising 10% of the participants in a local marathon race.
  • (14) Runner up: Newcastle University A project inspired by the childhood game Kerplunk is being used to slow the flow of water in order to improve water quality and reduce flood risk for a Northumberland town hit by floods in recent years.
  • (15) The middle distance runners were all highly trained, but had significantly slower performance times than the elite runners at distances greater than 3 miles.
  • (16) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
  • (17) The athletes were mostly volley ball players, jumpers or runners.
  • (18) The runners were divided into 2 groups: group A, who competed the 160 km within 24 hours and group B, who either ran for 24 hours, or who retired before completing the distance.
  • (19) The effects of L-carnitine on respiratory chain enzymes in muscle of long distance runners were studied in 14 athletes.
  • (20) Further, previous work has, almost exclusively, examined male runners.