yorker

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The fifth was a yorker, and just grazed the leg stump.

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  1. A ball which pitches in the block-hole, or within a few inches of it. Hutchinson, Cricket, p. 32. For one thing, the very name “anthropology” is apt to suggest different things to different minds. (And yet, as was said of the yorker, “What else would you call it?”) Athenæum, March 25, 1905, p. 370.

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  • That's a pearling delivery first-up from Broad, a wicked inswinging yorker which Gibbs does well to dig out. —  BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
  • Mumbai: Lanky seamer Siddharth Trivedi credited Rajasthan Royals captain Shane Warne for giving him the freedom to use the slower and yorker-length deliveries in the inaugural DLF-IPL Twenty20 competition last year. —  The Hindu - Front Page
  • Taylor's second ball is a yorker, which Prior plays late back down the pitch. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Khan bowled just one over in the Royals 'losing warm-up game against the Cape Cobras in Cape Town on Saturday but surprised Cobras captain and South African international batsman Justin Ontong with a fast yorker which scattered Ontong's stumps. —  Cricket365
  • Dammit, I stole the railroad line from the new yorker! —  Apple Matters
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