bowler
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- noun
- /ˈboʊlər/
- UK
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lanzador (cricket)
- In the final match, the bowler took three wickets in only four overs.
- cricket bowlers
It was a quick bowler, which probably tells you about the tensile strength and fast twitch fibre in Hamza.
- It was a quick bowler, which probably tells you about the tensile strength and fast twitch fibre in Hamza.
Examples
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Roach is tied with three other players as the second-most successful bowler in Tests this year.
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The bowler delivered a perfect yorker that dismissed the batsman.
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Get it bowler, get him out come on, get him out!
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That should be taken by the next bowler in sequence.
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Who do you think is a better bowler?
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Send out the fast bowler!
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And when it comes to consistency, no bowler on earth is as reliable as this one.
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- When I was a teenager in Nairobi, I was the best fast bowler in our school.
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The guy who was batting was expecting an inswing ball, and that's what the bowler bowled.
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Jason Holder, a 6-ft, 4-in tall, loose-limbed fast bowler, has been selected to replace his compatriot.
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Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bowler comes from the verb bowl, which means 'to roll or throw a ball', so a bowler is simply someone who bowls the ball to the batsman.