fieldsman
IPA: fˈiɫdzmʌn
noun
- (cricket, chiefly Australia, dated in UK) fielder
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Examples of "fieldsman" in Sentences
- It was a big hit, but there was a fieldsman in the neighbourhood.
- Radley pulled it, as a great laugh went up, to the very spot from which the fieldsman had been removed.
- When the first striker is out, the fieldsman will take his place, the striker will bowl, and the bowler will take the field.
- I timed it successfully, and had no doubt of having added four to my score, when, to my astonishment, I saw a fieldsman running from the direction of the hedge.
- I put down the sandwich I was eating, rose from my seat, picked the ball up neatly, and returned it with unerring aim to a fieldsman who was waiting for it with becoming deference.
- As a fieldsman he was perfect, but for an occasional belief that he was not merely short leg, but slip, point, midoff, and wicket-keep; and perhaps a tendency to make the ball a little “jubey.”
- The fieldsman must return the ball so that it shall cross the space between the wicket and the bowling stump, or between the bowling stumps and the bounds; the striker may run till the ball be so returned.
- As soon as the panting fieldsman had sprinted to one side of the football ground and returned the ball, there was a beautiful, musical _plonk_, and the ball soared to the very opposite quarter of the field.
- If the striker should attempt to run, the bowler should immediately run to the wicket, and the fieldsman should throw the ball to him, so that he may catch it, and touch the wicket with it to get the striker out.
- With three players, the bowler and striker will be the same as when two are at play; the second player will be fieldsman, who, when the ball be hit nearer to him than to the bowler, will pick it up, or catch it if he can, and return it to the bowler.
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