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  • noun Plural form of bat-pad.

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Examples

  • The upside of that is that it gets Watson back on strike, and he bat-pads his only delivery just wide of short leg.

    The Guardian World News Rob Smyth 2010

  • But a clutch of morning miscues and bat-pads did not go to hand, the closest call coming when Ian Bell was just unable to reach a ball which looped over his head at silly-point when

    WalesOnline - Home 2010

  • But a clutch of morning miscues and bat-pads did not go to hand, the closest call coming when Ian Bell was just unable to reach a ball which looped over his head at silly-point when

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • But a clutch of morning miscues and bat-pads did not go to hand, the closest call coming when Ian Bell was just unable to reach a ball which looped over his head at silly-point when Watson was on 26.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • But a clutch of morning miscues and bat-pads did not go to hand, the closest call coming when Ian Bell was just unable to reach a ball which looped over his head at silly-point when Watson was on 26.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • His dismissals were classics and therefore should have been a source of immense satisfaction: outside edges caught at slip against the left-handers, bat-pads caught at forward short-leg against two right-handers and a tail-ender, albeit rather a good one in Friedel de Wet, deceived by the quicker delivery.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2009

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