Definitions
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- noun cricket A series of
deliveries at anunguarded wicket at the end of a non-first-class cricket match, used to decide the winner of adrawn match.
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Examples
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Lancashire's third consecutive quarter-final defeat was every bit as hard for their players to stomach as the empty feeling of losing a bowl-out in the Old Trafford indoor school last year.
Mark Pettini leads Essex to thrilling T20 victory over Lancashire Andy Wilson at Chelmsford 2010
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If it had kept on raining, the game would have gone to a super-over, or a bowl-out.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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If the game is then washed out once more, it will be decided by a bowl-out.
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After winning the competitive North Group with eight wins from 10, Glen Chapple's men came unstuck in the last eight when they lost in an indoor bowl-out against Somerset.
Cricket365 | Cricket 2010
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The maximum he could do with the last ball was to hit the six and force a bowl-out and the 20-year-old batsman did exactly that.
News 2009
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Chasing a modest total of 124, Nepal could muster only 123 runs from its maximum 20 overs, requiring the match's result to be decided through a bowl-out, in which Nepal outplayed Kuwait
News 2009
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West Indies 'reserve pace bowlers are involved in something of a bowl-out ahead of the Tests and all-rounder Dave Bernard, who swung the ball impressively, and Lionel Baker were the stand-outs in dismissing Essex for 263.
ECB Latest News 2009
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However, Nepali batsman Binod Bhandari lofted the last ball of the match for a six making imminent a bowl-out for a clear result.
News 2009
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The Super Over rule replaced bowl-out which, the committee felt, was not testing every department of the game -- bowling, batting and fielding.
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ABU DHABI: Debutante Binod Bhandari hit the six off the last over to force a tie and Nepal defeated Kuwait 3-2 in bowl-out in the ACC Twenty20 Cup Group B match at the Zayed Cricket Stadium here today.
News 2009
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