Word: batsman
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...sped the batsmen along the pitch-too late! An alert "Kangaroo" had shot the ball into the wicket keeper's gloved hands and a fraction of a second later the ball flew off the stumps just a fraction of a second before the English batsman could shove his bat over the "popping crease" (batting line). England was beaten. Loud cheers and glad faces in Australia. Silence and long faces in England...
...protractedness of cricket is due to the fact that the batsman is not obliged by rule either to make a run or be put out within any given number of bowls. His prime function is to prevent the ball from striking his wicket. Interminable defensive play ("stonewalling") is thus possible-as it would be in baseball if a batter were adroit enough to foul safely off an indefinite number of pitches...
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped...
...Casey was not the only batsman whose name worked itself into the week's headlines. It was generally advertised throughout the civilized world that Tyrus R. Cobb, manager and centre-fielder of the Detroit American League team, by virtue of his past season's work, has batted .300 or better for 18 consecutive years, and is therefore undisputed possessor of the " all time batting honors...
...which put the team at its ease. Yale's first man up promptly retaliated with another, tying the total; but there the scoring stopped, and throughout the rest of the game the visitors were unable to reach home, although they registered several scattered hits. Allen, Yale's star batsman, was also his team's mainstay on the defense. For several innings he held his own, but toward the end he weakened and the local players found him for hit after hit, sending the bull into the far corners of the field...