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  • noun cricket A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken block. The description of the "blockhole" being a physical location has caused much debate within the cricketing community. Many assert that the "blockhole" is actually the general area in which the batsman takes guard. A ball bowled into the "blockhole" will generally force the batsman to play a "blocking" type shot.

Etymologies

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block +‎ hole

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Examples

  • Fanie de Villiers had been a luminary exponent of the 'blockhole' art.

    News24 2008

  • Zaheer bowled a good length in the final overs and got one right in the blockhole to shatter the stumps of Sami and after that Moin was clean bowled by Balaji and India won by 40 runs with Pakistan allout for 253.

    Archive 2004-03-01 Chirayu 2004

  • The upshot of it was, I bowled pretty well for Mynn's eleven, and when I went to the wicket to bat, I stuck to my blockhole like glue, to the disappointment of the spectators, who expected me to slog.

    Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

  • To start with, this is a better over: he gets the ball up in the blockhole and there are five from the first four balls.

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

  • To start with, this is a better over: he gets the ball up in the blockhole and there are five from the first four balls.

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

  • Once again they show that they have no idea that you can dismiss a batsman by bowling in the blockhole at 145 kph and uprooting the middle stump!

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • Prince gets a great yorker, right in the blockhole and keeps it out well.

    IOL: News 2010

  • Jimmy again, scampering to the crease, turning sideways and hurling it up into the blockhole.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • Jimmy again, scampering to the crease, turning sideways and hurling it up into the blockhole.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • By the skin of his teeth and the edge of his bat, Vikram Solanki kept out the hat-trick ball, 95mph fuelled by adrenaline and speared in the blockhole, but he too was to be beaten by swing and bowled off his pads.

    The Guardian World News 2009

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