wristy

• “He is a stylish batsman batsman who is very 'wristy'.”

  Irish Blogs

• “Being the type of gadget that people can wear wrapped around their wrists (let's call them … "wristy", shall we?), the cell phone is aimed at fashion-conscious human beings who'd rather have a funky "accessory" than a rich-featured one.”

  Camera Phones Plaza

• “I think he can get 'wristy' sometimes, "Self said.”

  LJWorld.com stories: News

• “It's a signature shot too, the wristy flick to leg for a strike-rotating single.”

  The Guardian: Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot

• “A single from the first 24 balls faced signified the seriousness of his intent and, an occasional wristy whip to the leg‑side off the pace bowlers or delicate late cut off the spinners apart, risk was almost entirely eschewed.”

  The Guardian: Essex 248-8, Leicestershire | County Championship Division Two match report

• “He flicks the ball away with a wristy leg-glance off the front foot, and then grins as he watches it run all the way across the outfield to the boundary rope.”

  The Guardian: Pakistan v England – live! | Andy Bull and Rob Smyth

• “It's a quirky, wristy, vertical and extremely violent motion that he hasn't fiddled with much since he figured out how to make whiffle balls curve in both directions around his boyhood home in rural Florida.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Top Pros Who've Never Had a Lesson

• “Murray leads Lacko* 6-3, 3-2 Murray does all the running to catch a tonking Lacko forehand but then gives away the point with a wristy forehand effort.”

  The Guardian: Andy Murray v Lukas Lacko - as it happened

• “At The Oval, Butt needs a performance from himself as well as his team, for he is not really proven as a Test player, for all the wristy style of his left-handed batting.”

  The Guardian: Salman Butt: 'In these dark days for Pakistan, cricket can lift spirits'

• “His bread-and-butter stroke off Hauritz had been the wristy paddle around the corner for a single a time and trying that stroke again brought his downfall.”

  The Wall Street Journal: England Fails to Push Home Ashes Advantage

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