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  • noun cricket The swing of the ball through the air, in a direction away from the batsman.

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Examples

  • There's nothing subtle about Li's style of play: Essentially, she pounds the ball hard, pushing opponents back near the baseline, and hopes to outswing them.

    Li Na Wins French Open Title 2011

  • There's nothing subtle about Li's style of play: Essentially, she pounds the ball hard, pushing opponents back near the baseline, and hopes to outswing them.

    Li Na Wins French Open Title 2011

  • Middlesex kept themselves in it after a poor foray with the new ball, first through the brisk outswing of Steven Crook who took three of the first four wickets to fall and late in the day a stunning left-handed, diving catch at backward point.

    Middlesex v Gloucestershire | County Championship match report 2011

  • Since making his debut against England in Nagpur more than five years ago, the injury-prone and temperamental outswing bowler has managed just 24 appearances.

    India's Zaheer Khan almost certain to miss second Test against England 2011

  • Hilfenhaus got Australia back into the game on the fourth evening, but his strength is beautifully controlled outswing with the new ball.

    VVS Laxman shows special side again as India edge past Australia Dileep Premachandran in Mohali 2010

  • Middlesex kept themselves in it after a poor foray with the new ball, first through the brisk outswing of Steven Crook who took three of the first four wickets to fall and late in the day a stunning left-handed, diving catch at backward point.

    Middlesex v Gloucestershire | County Championship match report 2011

  • Kathleen tells me that her class has pooled their eveners to buy a Fardie for their school as a graduation present and that they are going to outswing it for the first time at the commencement exercises-then she had to hurry away because she had been co-opted in charge.

    Time For The Stars Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

  • Praveen's particularly nostalgic brand of outswing been compared to many things this morning - Mike Smith, Martin Bicknell, Mudassar Nazar, Jon Lewis, Terry Alderman.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • He retained a high boundary count, several via controlled edges through a packed slip cordon off Lakmal's outswing but also producing a crunching drive past a vacant cover as Dilshan kept an attacking field.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • Anderson finds some early outswing, Sehwag slashes and edges to second slip, and a diving Graeme Swann gets his right hand to the ball, but can't cling on!

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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