How to Use batsman in a Sentence

batsman

noun
  • His own Test match record as a batsman was, in his own word, poor.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Each batsman stands in front of the wickets and will exchange places if the ball is hit.
    — Peter Rauterkus, Dallas News, 12 July 2023
  • In recent years, the game has been tilted too much in favor of the batsmen.
    — Nick Compton, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Fifteen hits, 9 walks, 1 hit batsmen, so there was a lot of traffic.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Soto, who still has two seasons before free agency, is one of the finest young batsmen in the game.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The pitcher in those videos is the master of the mound, a man who paid little heed to batsman opposing him.
    — Zach Buchanan, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2017
  • The goal of a bowler is to take a wicket, which is being defended by a batsman, by knocking the bail off the stumps.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2019
  • The bowler’s goal is to take a wicket, which is being defended by a batsman, by knocking the bail off the stumps.
    — Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Legacy batted 17 in the seventh, reaching base on eight hits, four walks and a hit-batsman.
    — Dallas News, 4 June 2022
  • Over the last two losses, the Rangers put seven runners on base via walks or hit batsmen in the eighth and ninth innings.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Mayfield ended the game on the bottom of the fifth with five runs on one hit, two walks, one hit batsman, two wild pitches and one passed ball.
    — Jeff Tully, latimes.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • What Anderson doesn’t mention was that the batsman was on 110 at the time.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • The Royals took advantage of an error, walk and hit batsman to push three unearned runs across in the next frame.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2024
  • The late Donald Bradman was the best batsman to ever play cricket.
    — Samuel Gregg, National Review, 6 Jan. 2023
  • This team is all in from the start and the time in the middle is marked not by dint of duration, but by boldly going where batsmen have feared to tread.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Chacin's four hit batsmen set a Padres record and tied the major league mark by John Lackey this season.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2017
  • The more a ball swings in the air, the more problems a batsman faces and, consequently, the more likely the player is to be dismissed.
    — Zahid Mahmood, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The Reds loaded the bases in the third inning through an Alex Blandino single, hit batsman and a walk.
    — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • None of the English batsmen were reading him off the hand during the 2024 series.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 20 June 2025
  • Bowlers launch the ball -- smaller and heavier than a baseball -- into the turf at speeds of 90 miles an hour with the aim of bouncing it at a batsman’s head.
    — James Ludden and Eben Novy-Williams | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2019
  • One of my favourite stories in sport is of cricketer Wilfred Rhodes coming out as the last batsman, with still 15 runs to win.
    — David Carry, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • The firm flagged unusual betting action on the first pitch thrown by Ortiz in the bottom of the second inning to be a ball or hit batsman.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The Proteas’ victory was all the more historic for being led by their first Black captain heading a multiracial squad of bowlers, batsmen, and fielders.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
  • Senior starting pitcher Carson Roden struggled a little with two hit-batsmen, three hits and a walk in the first inning, and the defense behind her had two errors.
    — Steve Gorches, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2026
  • However, should a spectator reach out on the playing field side of such fence, railing or rope, and plainly prevent the fielder from catching the ball, then the batsman should be called out for the spectator’s interference.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But when key batsman Tristan Stubbs went cheaply on 157-4 with four overs remaining, the South African innings collapsed to offer the Irish victory.
    — Mark Gleeson, Reuters, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Caetano scored on a wild pitch and after back-to-back hit by pitches on DeJesus and Pereira, Durand scoring on another wild pitch, and DeKippe bringing home a run as the third hit batsmen of the inning.
    — Zach McMahon, Boston Herald, 20 May 2026
  • Among the many pleasing on-screen personalities who join Levy en route are Rahul Dravid, former Indian cricketer famed as one of the greatest batsmen in the game’s history, and Eric Nam, an American singer, songwriter and actor based in South Korea.
    — Laura Manske, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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