white ball
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Noun
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning.
- (cricket, journalism, metonymically) limited overs cricket, as distinct from first-class cricket
- 2017 January 28, Jonathan Liew, "To cling together or drift apart? Red and white-ball cricket facing a divided future" The Daily Telegraph, London:
- Kohli says that his white-ball batting is essentially an extension of his Test batting.
- 2018 February 15, Ali Martin and Vithushan Ehantharajah, "Adil Rashid opts out of first-class cricket for 2018 season" The Guardian, London:
- Adil Rashid has put his ambitions for a Test return on hold and negotiated a new white-ball deal at Yorkshire after losing some of his appetite for the first-class game. ... “I’ve made the decision to just concentrate on white ball, something which makes me very happy and gives me the best chance of improving my cricket,” said Rashid.
- 2017 January 28, Jonathan Liew, "To cling together or drift apart? Red and white-ball cricket facing a divided future" The Daily Telegraph, London:
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