Crossword clues for batsman
batsman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Batter \Bat"ter\ (b[a^]t"t[~e]r), n. The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context cricket English) A player of the batting side now on the field. 2 (context cricket English) The player now receiving strike; the striker. 3 (context cricket English) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler. 4 (context baseball now rare English) A hitter.
WordNet
Usage examples of "batsman".
Indeed he rather over-did it, and the batsman, who was a sportsman and knew Charles, appealed to the umpire to say he was really out.
However, the batsman saw that he had a faint hope after all, and he ran too.
He faced the new batsman, and then, of a sudden, twirled around and sent the ball whizzing to third.
Then came another out, and then a drive to second, which landed the batsman on first, but kept the man on second where he was.
June 8th, 1869, when they defeated the Columbias of that city by the remarkable score of 209 to 10, two of the Niagaras scoring twenty-five runs each, and the least number of runs, scored by any one batsman amounted to twenty.
I soon found that it was to test my qualities as a batsman that I had been ordered to report.
He could disguise a change of pace in such a manner as to deceive the most expert batsman, while as a scientific hitter himself he had few superiors.
He was a good batsman and a splendid base runner, and was nearly as good a player on the infield as in the out.
He was also a fairly good left-handed pitcher, and a rattling good batsman, who excelled in fair-foul hitting.
Gore was a newcomer in the League ranks, he hailing from New Bedford, but he soon made for himself a name, being a first-class fielder and a batsman that was away above the average, as is shown by his record made in after years.
He was better than an average batsman and one of the few that knew how to wait for a ball and get the one that he wanted before striking.
He was only a fair batsman, and after his release by Chicago he played for a time in some of the other League teams, principally Cincinnati.
As a thrower, fielder and base runner he was in the first class, while as a batsman he was only fair.
As a fielder he was very fair, and as, a batsman above the average, so far as strength went, though not always to be depended upon as certain to land upon the ball.
He was a remarkable fielder and a good batsman for a pitcher, men who play that position being poor wielders of the ash, as a rule, for the reason, as I have always thought, that they paid more attention to the art of deceiving the batsman that are opposed to them than they do to developing their own batting powers.