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yorker

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  • Reino Unido//ˈjɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)//

A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.

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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.

Etimologia

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

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Conteúdo lexical proveniente do Wiktionary, sob licença CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origem · Versão dos dados 2026-08-23

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