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n. (context cricket English) A bowler who specialises in bowling the ball fast; as opposed to a spin bowler.
Usage examples of "fast bowler".
Some day he would have to tell Rubens about the West Indian fast bowler who had got life for murdering his wife, though, thankfully, not with a cricket bat.
However, that's anticipating - I was telling you how I became a fast bowler at Rugby, which is a necessary preliminary.
The wicket, too, was giving him just that assistance which a fast bowler needs, and he would have been a courageous man who would have asserted that the Gentlemen might even yet make a game of it.
Sharples, our fast bowler, will insist on sitting up to weird hours on the night before an important match, smoking strong tobacco and drinking whisky and soda.
The long arm came over, just like a fast bowler at cricket, thought O'Hara, and the rock soared into the sky, higher and higher.
I salute him, and he responds properly, then says 'Combustible Jones', sticking out a hand big as a West Indian fast bowler's.
The robed apparition turned from his victim without undue haste, took one long stride and brought over his sword-arm like a fast bowler, letting the Khyber knife go.