A batsman certainly gets a considerable amount of innocent fun by snicking good fast balls just off his wicket to the ropes, and standing stolidly in front against slow leg-breaks.
You could see it was going to beat the batsman from the moment it left Tony's hand.
The groan of a batsman when a loose ball hits him full pitch in the ribs is genuine.
Wicket keeper (Cricket), the player who stands behind the wicket to catch the balls and endeavor to put the batsman out.
Foul strike (Baseball), a strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position.
Home base (Baseball), the base at which the batsman stands and which is the last goal in making a run.
He mowed the opposing batsman down one after the other, and as inning after inning passed with only two scratch hits as the Bostons' total, it began to look as though it would be a shutout for the visitors.
Then as a low incurve came sweeping up, the batsman caught it square on the seam for a line single to left.
Then Charles went and walked rapidly up and down in front of the screen; but Eric wasn't the sort of batsman who minded that.
It was an heroic race, but the batsman had less distance to go.
However, the batsman saw that he had a faint hope after all, and he ran too.
He imagined he was being asked whether the batsmanhad been bowled, and it never occurred to him that you could be "stumped out" in this way.
Many a good batsman can recall occasions on which he made a mental resolve on the morning of a match to make a century, and did it.
Now came the question how many runs should be scored, for I had passed my fellow batsman in the race, having completed seven runs to his five.
Whilst the modern bowler has learnt extraordinary accuracy of pitch, the batsman has perfected the art of "timing" the ball.
If they are right in their guess, the holder of the Cat throws it across the ground for the opposite bowler to put it in the hole before the second batsman reaches it.
If they guess wrongly, the holder of the Cat puts it into the hole as soon as the batsman runs, and they then become the batsmen for the next game.
One batsmanruns across and puts his stick into the hole behind which the boy kneels whom they consider has the Cat, the other then running to his place.
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.
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.
I soon found that it was to test my qualities as a batsman that I had been ordered to report.
As a thrower, fielder and base runner he was in the first class, while as a batsman he was only fair.
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 a good batsman and a splendid base runner, and was nearly as good a player on the infield as in the out.
As a batsman he was only fair, and as a fielder decidedly careless.
If the batsman after striking the ball could run to a goal about thirty feet distant, and return before the ball could be fielded, he counted one tally.
The batsman had expected the "greenhorn" to try a fancy curve, and so was not prepared for a ball of this kind.
Before the astonished batsman knew it was coming, Hinsdale grabbed it for the second strike.
King looked bothered for an instant, and in that instant struck the next batsman on the elbow.
As it was, he put out the batsman by catching the ball, tagged second before the runner from that base could get back, and then threw to third and put out the man there.
But the batsman was an old hand, and was not deceived by the inshoot that followed.
Then the batsman elicited laughter and applause from his supporters by crossing the plate and suddenly becoming a left-handed batter.
The batsman was the Robinson captain and center-fielder, Wood.
Not a single hit had been made off him, while Gilberth had been struck freely, yet had frequently managed to puzzle the batsman when a single would have brought in a run, or possibly two.
Billings hit a short grounder to first-baseman who scooped it up and tagged the bag before the batsman was half-way toward it.
I do not say that every hit should be made in this manner; I only say that a perfect hit can be made in no other, and that it should be the aim of the batsman to attain this position of the body as often as he can.
Besides trying every variety of length, vary your pace to deceive the batsman in timing his play; and practise the same action so as not to betray the change of pace.
When a player hits almost every time he raises his bat, the remark is, What an excellent eye that batsman has!
How often is a batsman convinced, that the ball that hit him before wicket was making so abrupt a turn, that it must have missed the wicket, and, but for that abrupt turn, would never have hit him at all.
If the batsman is deceived in playing at both balls by the same forward play, he endangers his wicket.
Lastly, the last diagram explains that curvilinear bowling (the effect of a moderate pace with a spin) gives the batsman a shorter sight of the rise than is possible with the straighter lines of swift bowling.
These words say nothing about the ball pitching more or less straight and turning off afterwards: the distance of the ball when it passes the batsman is the point at issue.
A good field is sure to save runs, though the best batsman may not make any.
There is a deal of head-work in bowling: once make your batsman set his mind on one hit, and give him a ball requiring the contrary, and he is off his guard in a moment.
This the outraged custodian of the stumps refused to permit, and while they were wrangling about it, and the rest of the team were screaming directions, our batsman galloped safely back amidst loud applause.
There was a great argument, but the umpire's ruling had to be upheld, and the batsman retired, declaring that he would never play cricket with savages again as long as he lived.
It was a revolutionary sort of stroke, and the umpire said it must not be counted, but the batsman insisted upon having the runs put down.
The batsman retired utterly bewildered, and the Model Man assured me he had never sent down a better ball.
I have myself seen a batsman receive a mortal blow from a ball driven by his companion at the wicket.
He was watching a fast bowler who was slinging the ball at the batsman like a whirlwind, and with disastrous results for himself.
At the same instant the batsman smote the ball a ringing crack and sent it flying into the top of a tall coco palm above the church.
The final batsman was an old man with weak eyes, who, after missing three balls, caught the fourth on the edge of his bat and shot it high up into the top of a towering coconut palm.
Through it all the game went merrily on, and despite unfavourable conditions Pago Pago continued to add to its score until, when the last batsman was out on the fifth day, a total of 1,386 runs had been chalked up to its credit.
He could see that the batsman was in pain, and yet his second ball was faster than the first.
And the last ball of the over sent Jennings's off-stump out of the ground, after that batsman had scored two.
It was about to bounce for the second time when, with a pleased smile, the batsman stepped out.
The fourth ball of the over was too wide to hit with any comfort, and the batsman let it alone.
Gosling was getting tired, and Baynes apparently offered no difficulties to the batsman on the perfect wicket, the conversational man in particular being very severe upon him.
The little batsman went forward in a hesitating, half-hearted manner, and played a clear two inches inside the ball.
In baseball the batsman must run for every fair hit; in cricket he may choose which hits to run for.
I thought it an odd example of lenience to allow the batsman as many strokes behind the catcher as he chanced to make.
The next batsman was one of the bronzed brigade who could not grace the old ground every season.
There Jan had been quite right, but it was not so tactful to remind the batsman of every batsman's anxiety on nearing the century.
And partly because the batsman was an even bigger fellow than himself, partly out of open spite against Jan, the Shocker allowed the game to proceed.
The defeated batsmanproceeded to make a less creditable stand than the one the Tiger had broken up.
But Evan kept Jan buttonholed at mid-off, and they had a whisper together while the new batsman was on his way out.
Swallow affected to see another good bowler degenerating into a batsman in accordance with his own bad example.
It lay so high that at one end the batsman stood in position against the sky from the pads upwards, and the empyrean was the screen behind the bowler's arm.
This time the ball seemed well off the wicket, and the batsman took a vindictive slash, only to find his off stump mown down.
Two overs later the new batsman had succumbed to Jan after a lofty couple through the slips; but A.
The batsman took fresh guard, and Jan his shambling run.
Volunteer batteries bombarded each, but Jan's batsman eventually requested the other volunteers to wait while the left-hander gave him a little practice.
Variety was lacking; a first-class batsman would have taken the measure of the attack in about an over; but there was scarcely the makings of one such in the Lodge team, and great was the fall of that strong house.
The firstbatsman obligingly sent up a short fly which Captain Warner got by a run back into the outfield, but the next man was a canny batsman and before Tom knew it the score was two balls and no strikes.
But there was little speed in what was meant for a fast ball and the batsman cracked out a long two-bagger into left field.
He put himself in a hole with the first batsman when what should have been a straight one went wild, an out-shoot missed the plate by an inch and a drop was judged too low by the umpire.
Pete made an effort to settle down then, after Frank Warner and Sam Craig had both talked with him, and succeeded in striking out the next batsman and causing the following one to pop a fly into shortstop’s hands.
It would be best to give all his attention to the batsman and not allow that dancing, shouting figure over there to take his mind from the real task, which was to strike out the man at the plate.
The first batsman was plainly anxious to hit, and Sam took his cue from that.
And Tom got him, sending two slow balls across shoulder-high, at each of which the batsman struck and each of which he missed.
Then, recovering himself finely, Tom set to work and disposed of the last batsman with just four balls, and the game was over!
The batsman was a tall, weedy youth and a knee-high offering was likely to get by him.
But a “knuckler” fooled the second batsman and a drop that looked awfully good until it was almost at the plate evened the score.
Meyers went out, third to first, but Frank Warner again proved his dependability as a batsman by lining out a red-hot one straight through the pitcher’s box, bringing in Sam Craig and Buster.
As a batsman he would doubtless never perform in the three-hundred class, but he was fully as good with the stick as two or three other players who had won places on the team.
The years had passed since the famous innings, making of the bowler an Assistant District Superintendent of Police, of the batsman a pleader in the High Court.
But the score stood at thirty-six, and as the batsman walked past him proudly yet sheepishly, the Eton boy shook him by the hand.
Mike waited till the outcoming batsman had turned in at the professionals' gate.
There is only one thing for a batsman to do on these occasions.
Mr Smith, who always went in last for his side, and who so far had not received a single ball during the week, was down the pavilion steps and half-way to the wicket before the retiring batsman had taken half a dozen steps.
There's a sort of rough idea of giving the batsman a chance of seeing the ball, as well.
There are moments when thebatsman feels an almost super-human fitness.
He did not use that phrase to himself, he merely thought that thebatsman suspected something.
But if the wary batsman imagined (as he not unfrequently did) that this was the prelude to a slow and thoughtful ball, he occasionally (though not always) found he was quite in error.
Once he completely beat Maddox, and must have shaved the varnish off his bails, and from the rest the batsman made no attempt to score, being quite satisfied with stopping them.
The batsman was yards out of the—the popping crease.
In other words, he bowled balls apparently so slow and stupid and devoid of all merit that a batsman who did not know quite all about them felt insulted and tried to do impossible things with them.
It is a common fallacy among cricketing coaches and their pupils that when the young batsman has mastered all the strokes that can be imparted to him at the nets his education is complete.
Your next move should be to summon the other batsman to a whispered conference in the middle of the pitch.
Nothing looks worse than a batsman hurrying out at a furtive trot, as if he were going to pawn his bat.
The batsmanholds himself responsible for reading the riddle of the pitcher's motions.
Yet the pitcher is forbidden to deceive the batsman by a feint of delivering the ball without delivering it.
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