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- noun cricket a
ball that exhibitsoutswing - noun cricket a
bowler that uses outswing
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Examples
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Fred Trueman, who played in the 1950s and 1960s, was a brilliant exponent of the "outswinger".
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Fred Trueman, who played in the 1950s and 1960s, was a brilliant exponent of the "outswinger".
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Fred Trueman, who played in the 1950s and 1960s, was a brilliant exponent of the "outswinger".
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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The dam was bursting now: Michael Clarke played jauntily but was drawn into a beautiful late outswinger by Mr. Anderson to complete a series in which he had made only one double-figure score in the first innings of each Test, and only one half-century.
Australian Frailties Shown Up by Comical Run-Out Michael Atherton 2011
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David Sales went before adding to his overnight score, edging a Corey Collymore outswinger to the wicketkeeper, Hall gloved a Toby Roland-Jones lifter to first slip, and Tim Murtagh cut one back to trap Middlebrook leg-before to leave the home team on 226 for six at lunch.
Scott Newman puts Middlesex in strong position against Northamptonshire 2011
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"He is an opening bowler with a deadly late outswinger and a free-hitting middle order batsman," reports Heller.
Diary 2010
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For all the talk of the perfect Adelaide pitch, it was Mr. Anderson who was pitch perfect, producing a lovely, late outswinger to Mr. Clarke now, whose stiff-legged forward push also ended up in the hands of Mr. Swann.
England Dominate Australia on Day One Michael Atherton: The Times 2010
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In his fourth over of the morning, he had Liam Plunkett driving at a full-length outswinger, and edging to third slip.
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The problem is that he's either starting the inswinger too much on leg stump or the outswinger is doing well too much.
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The pace attack as a whole was inconsistent: Andrew Flintoff was unable to recreate the spirit of Lord's, James Anderson's inswinger was working but his outswinger not and Stuart Broad was ineffective.
bilby commented on the word outswinger
Cricket jargon - when bowling, a ball that moves away from the batsman.
November 30, 2007