Definitions
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- noun cricket A skilled or courteous display of skill as a
batsman .
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Examples
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After the 2007 World Cup people were questioning you but the kind of batsmanship which people are seeing from you after the Australia series Down Under has been great.
The Times of India 2010
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After the 2007 World Cup people were questioning you but the kind of batsmanship which people are seeing from you after the Australia series Down Under has been great.
The Times of India 2010
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After the 2007 World Cup people were questioning you but the kind of batsmanship which people are seeing from you after the Australia series Down Under has been great.
The Times of India 2010
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After the 2007 World Cup people were questioning you but the kind of batsmanship which people are seeing from you after the Australia series Down Under has been great.
The Times of India 2010
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Behind them three, four and five are often described as "the engine room", but engine rooms are staffed by hoary-handed grease monkeys, whereas the middle order are the prom kings and queens of batsmanship, a cabal of head prefects and silver-spoon merchants.
Why English cricket needs the six appeal of an Indiana Jones | Barney Ronay 2011
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Good captaincy and good batsmanship/bowling just aren't related.
The Ashes 2010-11: Ricky Ponting – great batsman, flawed captain 2011
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This was supposed to be Flintoff's match, but no one, clearly, had told Stuart Broad, who bowled throughout the afternoon session, taking five for 37 in 12 overs of superb swing and cut that destroyed the cream of Australian batsmanship, confirmed his position as the heir to Fred's throne and his place in Ashes folklore.
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Opener Cook has already proved many doubters wrong by adapting his batsmanship effectively from the demands of five days to one day - and he believes he can take it into the shortest format too.
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Opener Cook has already proved many doubters wrong by adapting his batsmanship effectively from the demands of five days to one day - and he believes he can take it into the shortest format too.
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But its dampness and softness gave India their first sniff of a victory over England on this tour, when the left-arm spinner Ravi Jadeja and off-spinner Ravi Ashwin exposed the lack of footwork that is still inherent in English - and South African - batsmanship.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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