单词 | innings |
释义 | inningsn. 1. a. Cricket. A division of the game in which one side bats (or is ‘in’); the turn taken by one team at batting. Cf. inning n.2 4a.A cricket match consists of either one or two innings for each side, depending on the format of the match. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > innings inning1721 innings1735 knock1889 1735 London Evening Post 17 June London..got 67 Notches the first Innings. 1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 581/1 The bowler..shall change [wickets] but once in the same innings. 1810 Sporting Mag. 36 194 Won by the former by sixty-two runs at one innings. 1829 Bury & Norwich Post 16 Sept. The first four wickets fell for about as many notches, but Adams..and Stearn..made up their innings to 190. 1859 Edinb. Evening Courant 31 May The Academy scored 54 in their first innings, and 38 in their second. 1870 Cambr. Chron. 2 July 8/4 Score:—St. Ives, one innings, 114; Croxton, two inningses, 112. 1891 W. G. Grace Cricket vii. 216 On five occasions Oxford has won by an innings, whilst Cambridge has done the same thing thrice. 1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket ii. 17 The amount of runs that can be saved or given away during two long inningses by a fieldsman in the country, or indeed anywhere, is astonishing. 1928 B. Johnston Let. 1 July in Lett. Home (1998) 20 A telegram came here, saying the score in our 2nd innings was 29 for 7. 1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes vi. 119 The first two innings went smoothly, as the other team kept striking out and popping up. 2016 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Sport section) 65 Tempers frayed late in the innings as Starc conceded 51 runs, including a wide ball that went to the boundary. ΚΠ 1834 R. Carver Bk. of Sports iii. 38 Base, Or Goal Ball. This game is known under a variety of names. It is sometimes called ‘round ball’, but I believe that ‘base’, or ‘goal ball’ are the names generally adopted in our country. The players divide into two equal parties, and chance decides which shall have first innings. 1855 N.-Y. Daily Times 6 June 3/2 Base Ball... 11 runs was got the 1st innings, 1 the 2d, 6 the 3d. 1866 Galaxy 1 562 The Opossums, as usual, got the first innings and played a brilliantly cautious..game. 2. Cricket. The turn of a particular batter at the wicket during a side’s innings; (also) the score made by a player during a turn at batting. See inning n.2 4b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > batsman's tenure of wicket wicket1738 innings1755 stand1808 life1865 partnership1868 1755 Norwich Mercury 7 June The Colonel on Saturday got 21 notches at one innings off his own bat. 1787 World, Fashionable Advertiser 3 Sept. Mr. Louch was in his best manner—He got 28 notches;—the best Innings. 1839 Sussex Advertiser 26 Aug. Mr. Grimston was caught by Wenman behind the wicket, after a splendid innings. 1862 Bell’s Life in London 8 June 8/4 The Hon. T. De Gray played a perfect innings of 38 in a pair of I. Z. [= I Zingari] stockings, the inningses of both of which were much admired. 1885 Leigh Chron. 19 June 8/2 O. P. Lancashire showed splendid cricket for his innings, going in first and was out seventh. 1904 R. S. Holmes Hist. Yorks. Co. Cricket iii. 23 In 1828 Tom Marsden was the only batsman in England to notch a three-figure innings. 1930 Graphic 9 Aug. 229/2 Only in the lowest form of cricket are batsmen who are bowled first ball allowed to continue their inningses, on the theory that ‘first ball doesn't count’. 1955 Times 9 May 15/2 Afterwards he played the sort of innings that not surprisingly drives some spectators to distraction. 1994 Canberra Times 27 Nov. 6/2 In the other 29 inningses, in which he [sc. Don Bradman] scored more than 100, he averaged a startling 234. 2015 Daily Express 22 May 62/4 His innings yesterday was just the sort of crowd-pleaser needed. 3. figurative. A period of power, favour, or ascendancy; an opportunity; a turn. In later use often in to have a good innings and variants: to have a good or lengthy life.Not common in North American use (cf. inning n.2 6).Some instances of the plural form may properly belong at inning n.2 6. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life life-dayOE year-daysOE timeOE dayOE lifeOE life's timeOE livelihoodOE yearOE lifetimea1300 life-whilea1300 for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325 coursec1384 livingc1390 voyage1390 agea1398 life's dayc1425 thread1447 racea1450 living daysc1450 natural life1461 lifeness1534 twist1568 leasec1595 span1599 clew1615 marcha1625 peregrination1653 clue1684 stamen1701 life term1739 innings1772 lifelong1814 pass-through1876 inning1885 natural1891 life cycle1915 puff1967 the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > spell or bout of action turnc1230 heatc1380 touch1481 pluck?1499 push?1560 bout1575 yoking1594 pull1667 tirl1718 innings1772 go1784 gamble1785 pop1839 run1864 gang1879 inning1885 shot1939 society > authority > power > [noun] > period of power or influence a dog has his day1546 innings1772 inning1885 1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical xcviii. 183 As all to be in, suppose equal pretences, Of Innings when baulk'd, they're out of their senses. 1793 Stockton Bee June 183 Those who taste the sweets of present winnings Labour as heartily to keep their innings. 1824 P. Egan Boxiana II. 479 His stubborn frame enables him to receive more than most men; and those millers who enter the ring with Duggan may expect a long innings before he says ‘no!’. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxiii. 238 It's my innings now, gov'rnor, and as soon as I catches hold o' this here Trotter, I'll have a good 'un. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. vi. 81 She's had remarkably good innings, and persons can't expect to live for ever. 1917 McGill Univ. Mag. Oct. 359 The word..of the jolly brave English boy he never ceased to be—‘Well, I have had a good innings.’ 1968 S. Gore Holy Smoke 36 If thouse weren't all so thick in the skull, thouse'd flamin' know the Lord's bound to give you an innings in the long run. 2014 Sports Forever Aug. 77/2 You've had a good innings, you've travelled a lot. Now you've got to get a job. Phrases to follow their innings (also to follow its innings) (Cricket, now rare): (of a team) to bat again immediately after completing its first innings, at the request of the opposing team (this Law may be enforced if the opposing team leads by more than a stipulated number of runs after both sides' first innings are completed); = to follow on 5 at follow v. Phrasal verbs 1.The Law was introduced in 1835; the variant in quot. 1815 presumably reflects local rules. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > follow on to follow their innings1815 to follow on1865 1815 Suffolk Chron. 2 Sept. 4/4 The latter [sc. Hintlesham], immediately following their first innings, obtained 13. 1835 Laws of Cricket (J. H. Dark) (broadsheet) The players who go in second shall follow their innings, if they shall have obtained one hundred runs less than their antagonists. 1836 Reading Mercury 22 Aug. Windsor and Eton got 50 only; and, according to the new rule, followed their innings, and at the close of the day had five wickets down for thirty runs. 1854 J. Pycroft Cricket Field (ed. 2) xi. 251 The M.C.C. in 1847 in playing Surrey followed their innings, being headed by 106; still they won the match by nine runs. 1896 Morning Bull. (Queensland) 11 Apr. 7/2 Having to follow their innings the visitors were all dismissed for 150..The Graziers thus won by an innings and 23 runs. 1929 Yorks. Post 3 May 19/2 They were compelled to follow their innings 209 runs in arrear, and at the close of play, with two wickets down, they needed 145 to avoid an innings defeat. 1963 Birmingham Daily Post 14 Mar. 8/2 The possibility that the side having second use of the wicket may be obliged to follow its innings has considerable influence on the strategy and tactics of the game, and adds to its fascination. 2019 Laws of Cricket 43 (heading) Lead on first innings..In a two-innings match of 5 days or more, the side which bats first and leads by at least 200 runs shall have the option of requiring the other side to follow their innings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1735 |
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