With present participles, or adjectives so formed, forming adjectives, as cross-batted (cf. cross, adj. 1e), cross-fissured, cross-folded, cross-…

Cricket. Of a batter or his play: consistent, safe, cautious.

Cricket. Having a batting style characterized by jabbing strokes. Cf. poke, v.1 1d. Obsolete.

Cricket. Designating an unrestrained style of batting, or a person who bats with such a style.

In Cricket, etc., with the sense ‘effected or directed by means of wrist-work,’ as wrist hit, wrist-play (hence wrist-player, wrist-playing), wrist…

Cricket. Designating a batter who does not advance down the wicket to play shots, but plays with the back foot kept firmly in the crease…

Performed by flexure of the wrist; marked by or clever in wrist-work.

attributive and in other combinations.

That forces, in senses of the verb spec. in Cricket (cf. force, v.1 5) and in Bridge.

Cricket. = poking, adj. 1b. Obsolete.

= fast-footed, adj. 2.

Cricket. Designating a shot played from close to the wicket, with the foot closest to the wicket bearing most of the weight of the body. Also…