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- noun cricket the
batsman standing at thebowler 's end of thepitch
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Examples
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I imagine there was a short-leg for the life of me I cannot remember but that apart it was a lonely place, the non-striker the nearest point of human contact.
Never in my life had I faced a bowler as swift as Michael Holding | Mike Selvey 2011
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Put in to bat by Strauss on the easiest of the three surfaces this series, India lost the wicket of Virender Sehwag to the first ball he faced on his return to the side and by the end of the 40th over, with Dhoni propped on his bat at the non-striker's end, the tail-ender Amit Mishra was walking back to the dressing room with the scoreboard showing 111 for seven.
India 224, England 84-0 | Third Test day one match report 2011
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He was at the non-striker's end when captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit a six to win the match.
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Taufeeq plays an awkward off-drive, banging the ball back past Hafeez at the non-striker's end and away to the rope for another boundary.
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Even at 33 he seems determined to occupy the crease, leaving the forlorn Iberian waif stranded at the non-striker's end.
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He recovered and three years later had the brass neck to "Mankad" Derek Randall, the bowler running the England batsman out at the non-striker's end without warning.
Mohinder Amarnath's bravery for India was a lesson for the cricket world | Rob Bagchi 2011
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The non-striker, Gareth Berg, set off for a run and had virtually arrived at Newman's end when he realised he had to make a return trip.
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Adams, the runner, set off like a hare; so did the non-striker, Sean Ervine.
Cork revels in Hampshire blend of dad's army and youth after t20 win 2010
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Yorkshire have had plenty of times to celebrate, almost twice as many as the nearest rival, and indeed I was actually at the crease (non-striker) when they clinched the last of their great run through the 1960s.
Somerset county championship win would exorcise ghosts of legends past 2010
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The sight of a batsman being rapped on the pads in front of middle stump, being given out and then strolling down to debate the umpire's eyesight with the non-striker was hardly the image the ICC wanted to foster when the referral system was introduced to Test cricket in 2008.
bilby commented on the word non-striker
Cricket jargon - the batsman who is not facing the ball being bowled and who must stand within his ground at the bowler's end.
December 2, 2007