Definitions
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- noun cricket a large
screen , at each end of acricket field ,coloured to providevisual contrast to thecricket ball , to aid thebatsman inseeing itsmovement through the air
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Examples
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Despite panicked calls for a comeback, Shane Warne has made just one onfield contribution in the Ashes, at Adelaide, where beaming from a sightscreen about to sink his neon teeth into a McDonald's Legend Chicken burger, he became the only Australian bowler to stop Kevin Pietersen in his tracks during his withering seven-hour double hundred.
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Siddle, after reaching 40, his highest Test score, then hoisted the off-spinner Swann to Kevin Pietersen, who ran round from long on and judged an awkward catch well in front of the sightscreen.
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_ His eyes flicked from the sightscreen to the sky ahead, looking for the telltale flare of rockets -- ready to follow like a ferret.
Slingshot Irving W. Lande
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Coulter watched the pip move into his sightscreen.
Slingshot Irving W. Lande
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He forgot everything but the sightscreen, concentrating on keeping the pip dead center.
Slingshot Irving W. Lande
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Broad had Tendulkar caught low down at second slip, but maybe the relief - at not being ridiculed for ever more as Tendulkar's whipping boys in the 2,000th Test - disturbed their concentration; or else the visibility was poor at the pavilion end Tendulkar had trouble with the sightscreen in the over he was dismissed.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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England agreed Ireland spinner George Dockrell could replace Hassan for the second innings, after the Afghan seamer had pitched over a picket fence on the boundary and collided with concrete and metal runners around the sightscreen.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2012
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Marsh lofts one over Welegedara's head and it smashes into the sightscreen.
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Broad had Tendulkar caught low down at second slip, but maybe the relief - at not being ridiculed for ever more as Tendulkar's whipping boys in the 2,000th Test - disturbed their concentration; or else the visibility was poor at the pavilion end Tendulkar had trouble with the sightscreen in the over he was dismissed.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Broad had Tendulkar caught low down at second slip, but maybe the relief - at not being ridiculed for ever more as Tendulkar's whipping boys in the 2,000th Test - disturbed their concentration; or else the visibility was poor at the pavilion end Tendulkar had trouble with the sightscreen in the over he was dismissed.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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