yorker
sustantivoatestiguado en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈjɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)//
A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.
sustantivo
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A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.
He bowled forty-seven toe crushing yorkers that resulted in the wickets of 6 batsmen.
I felt rather than saw the next three balls as they whistled around my ears and the last ball was a yorker that could have easily been fired out of a howitzer.
He bowled Neesham, Henry and captain Mitchell Santner with perfect slower-ball yorkers to add sparkle to a superb team performance.
Etimología
Possibly from 18th- and 19th-century slang phrase "to pull Yorkshire on a person", meaning to trick or deceive them. Compare come Yorkshire over.
Formas
- plural
- yorkers
yorker · A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.
Yorker · Someone from York, England.Yorkshire · England's largest county. Situated in the northeast of…Yoshida · A surname from Japanese.