2) cricket, sport. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...(bails) resting on three wooden stumps 28 in. (71.1 cm) high. 2At each wicket stands a batsman. If the opposing bowler, delivering the ball from near the opposing...

3) Catch Out (To). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...In cricket, is to catch the ball of a batsman, whereby the striker is ruled out, that is, must relinquish his bat. 1...

4) Leg-bye (A). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...in cricket, is a run scored from a ball which has glanced off any part of a batsman s person except his hand. 1...

5) 33702. Lang, Andrew. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:33702 QUOTATION:If the wild bowler thinks he bowls,Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled,They know not, poor misguided souls,They, too, shall perish unconsoled....

6) Cricket. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...about to strike it with a cric. In the field are other monks. There are no wickets, but the batsman stands before a hole, and the art of the game was either to get...

7) Innings. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...innings of an individual is the time he holds the bat. 1 A good innings. One in which the batsman has made several runs. Figuratively, a run of luck or business....

8) wicket. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...of three stumps, topped by bails, that forms the target of the bowler and is defended by the batsman. b. A batsman's innings, which may be terminated by the ball...

9) bowl 2. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...or roll a ball in bowling. c. To hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch toward the batsman at the other, keeping the arm straight throughout the delivery....

10) 1932. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...and England began in Melbourne. "Bodyline" was an English tactic of bowling fast at the batsman's body, designed to curb the brilliant batting of Australia's Don...