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nightwatchman
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who guards a premises at night. 2 (context cricket English) A batsman who is sent in to bat higher than his usual position near the end of a day's play (when light is poor), in order to protect better batsmen.
Wikipedia
Nightwatchman may refer to one of the following:
- Watchman (law enforcement)
- Nightwatchman (cricket), a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play
- "Nightwatchman", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from Hard Promises
- The Nightwatchman or Tom Morello, musician
- Night-watchman state, a government ideal restricted to the upholding of negative rights
- Security guard
- Nightwatchman (film), a 2000 Italian film
- Street Kings or The Night Watchman, a 2008 film
In the sport of cricket, a nightwatchman is a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play. The nightwatchman's job is to maintain most of the strike until the close of play (remaining in overnight, hence the name) and so protect other, more capable batsmen from being out cheaply in what may be a period of tiredness or in poor light at the end of the day, and then again the following morning when the batsmen have not yet `got their eye in,' or when the early-morning conditions may favour the bowlers. The theory is that losing two top-order batsmen in quick succession would be worse than losing one top-order batsman and a tailender.
However the nightwatchman's effort is not considered to be wasted, nor is he expected to play foolishly; otherwise he would not last very long. The role of nightwatchman is generally given to players who emphasise defensive technique over quick run-scoring. However, there have been occasions when nightwatchmen have made a big score, and six have made centuries in test matches. Generally speaking, the nightwatchman plays conservatively on the night, but the next day may be allowed a freer role to score runs.
The tactic has its drawbacks; in particular, if the nightwatchman does survive until the end of the day, the beginning of the next day's play will see refreshed bowlers with better light facing a less capable batsman. As a result, not all captains utilise the tactic; Steve Waugh, for example, abandoned the tactic during his captaincy of Australia.
The nightwatchman is not to be confused with the pinch hitter, a lower- or middle-order batsman who is promoted up the order in limited-overs games, or in tests where their team is looking for a quick declaration, in the hope of scoring quick runs without too much concern for their wicket.
Nightwatchman is a 2000 Italian thriller- drama film directed by Francesco Calogero.
Usage examples of "nightwatchman".
Army—he was the last man from Kansas drafted to serve in Vietnam but never was sent—and a fruitless layover in graduate school, he found a job as the nightwatchman in a Stokely Van Camp pork and beans factory.
Matsui's two nightwatchmen had retreated to the back room to resume standing guard over money and records.
In this way the gang avoided violence, and the nightwatchmen augmented their meagre wages.
One of the nightwatchmen, Conan noted, probably come to relieve the gate guard.
Instead she woke in the dead of night, in those dark standstill hours where no one but thieves and nightwatchmen were about, feeling as if she'd been running through the streets.
One of the nightwatchmen, by the flickering lantern near his outstretched hand.
There were no nightwatchmen in this part of Tarv, to swing glaring lanterns into the faces of late loiterers and ask questions.