batsman Definition
bats·man (bats′mən)
noun pl. -·men-mən
- Baseball batter
- Cricket the player whose turn it is to bat
batsman Usage Examples
Converse of object
- hard-hit: Pakistan had expected to counter-attack with Yousuf resuming on 185 while hard-hitting batsman Shahid Afridi was yet to score.
- dismiss: Few can forget Malcolm playing on club days in the past and dismissing some high quality batsman.
- oppose: Choose bowling strategies that will show up the weaknesses of the opposing batsmen.
- beat: He beats the batsman 's slash outside off stump, before jamming one into the batsman's left wrist.
- hit: The third ball hit the batsman 's pad half way up the leg.
Preposition: at
crease: Needless to say, the two batsmen at the crease finished the task with ease.
Adjective modifier
- right-handed: There are eight batting shots and 12 types of bowling delivery, as well as left and right-handed batsmen.
- left-handed: Left-handed opening batsman Godleman, who picked up a bat at the age of 10, could well be a part of that.
- right-hand: He was a hard hitting right-hand batsman, who fielded at slip.
- prolific: Unable to recover both his sight and his rhythm, Wolfson's most prolific batsman was bowled out.
- one-day: When he bats like this there is no more destructive one-day batsmen on the county circuit.
- Australian: I still have a mind's eye picture of fire eyed Freddie steaming in toward the Australian batsmen.
Modifies a noun
score: When a batsman scores no runs in either innings of a match, two zeros written together resemble spectacles.
Noun used with modifier
- top-order: The 20-year-old top-order batsmen have both enjoyed excellent starts to the 2005 campaign.
- middle-order: Matt has the potential to be a high class middle-order batsman.
- Aussie: Of the Aussie batsmen on show, only Ponting has scored big this summer.
- opening: Either the first or the third speaker, both of whom are right, could have been the opening batsman.
- opposition: He has gutted middle orders, and put fear into the opposition batsmen.
- order: We cannot afford to carry a top order batsman with such a poor return.
Preposition: in
cricket: What is the highest ever partnership between England batsmen in Test cricket?
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