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Cricket players
Answer for the clue "Cricket players ", 7 letters:
batsmen
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Batsman \Bats"man\, n.; pl. Batsmen . The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.; in baseball, the batsman is usually called the batter .
Usage examples of batsmen.
He would dearly have liked to be out there on the field, even wearing coloured pyjamas and being belted all over the field by those hated bastards, batsmen.
Rastrick kept talking about his boy Gussie, and what he would do when he was put face to face with the village batsmen.
You see, it had been a very hot day, and both the batsmen were beginning to be a little tired, especially Simms, who had bowled through two innings.
Bowlers hurled a hard cork ball, battered by overuse, down a strip of dirt marked by sets of improvised stumps, and batsmen swung homemade bats with abandon.
I have met nervous batsmen in the course of my career, men who turned a pale green when they had to go to the wickets, but they were recklessly confident compared with Sanderson.
Immediately upon the re-start, however, the fortunes of the game veered completely round, Batkins' deliveries were wild and inaccurate, and the two batsmen, Riddell and James Douglas, speedily took advantage of this slice of luck.
It got rather dull, because the batsmen didn't seem able to make any runs, and they wouldn't hit out.
It was very much as if two batsmen at opposite wickets should run forward each halfway, and after shaking hands and conversing, one of them should lead the other safely over.
When the wicket is sticky, the batsmen are obliged to exercise a great deal of caution, as the stickiness of the wicket enables the bowlers to make the ball turn more sharply in either direction as it strikes the turf than when the wicket is not sticky.