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- noun Plural form of
fieldsman .
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Examples
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We will have to wait until they take on SA or India to see whether they can maintain their excellent batting against an attack that actually has some bite to it, directed by a captain who actually knows where to put fieldsmen.
The Ashes 2010-11: Barmy Army in raptures while Australia mourns 2011
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In the last decade England have faltered in Australia for two reasons: the excellence of the opposition but also because of their inability to cope with everything Australian: the heat, the massive grounds, which used to expose lumbering old fieldsmen, the abuse, which just might be construed as friendly, from everyone from the customs officer on entry to the occupants of the old Hill in Sydney or Bay 13 in Melbourne.
The Ashes 2010: Virtues of modern age help England join select band | Vic Marks 2010
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He will always keep the gully fieldsmen on red alert as he flays away outside the off stump, but there were other strokes of the highest pedigree through the covers and midwicket.
Matt Prior digs deep but debutant Wahab Riaz leaves England in a hole 2010
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The bowlers ran in with vigour, the fieldsmen held their catches, and their body language, with the exception of Shane Watson who always gives the impression of wanting to be elsewhere, was never less than eager.
Battling Aussies Force England to Fight Michael Atherton 2010
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That is, if they can assure the safety of their fieldsmen.
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Really, between us two, and the efficient assistance of our fieldsmen, who seemed also spurred up to extra exertions, even Charley
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Ye fieldsmen, look sharp, lest your pains ye beguile;
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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The quarrel continued, most of the fieldsmen asserting that the batsman was out: they wanted an innings.
Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931
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One individual had gone on with lobs, to the acute delight of everybody except the fieldsmen who had to retrieve the balls and the above-mentioned cow.
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To be an object of interest is sometimes pleasant, but when ten fieldsmen, a bowler, two umpires, and countless spectators are eagerly watching your every movement, the thing becomes embarrassing.
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