Sentence examples for stiff batsman from inspiring English sources
So the stiff batsman faces, it's full and straight... and blocked.
The 31-year-old batsman has a stiff task ahead, needing to win both Test matches to regain the top spot in the ICC rankings after South Africa were overtaken by Australia after the latter's Ashes whitewash during the winter.
The responsibility then passed to the bowlers and another man just short of international class, Aussie John Hastings, whose muscular seam saw off seven Worcestershire batsmen, leaving Durham the stiff target of 318 to win.
He was once the most nimble of batsmen, but now he was sluggish and stiff.
This is cricket heaven really; two of the greatest batsmen in the world up against a stiff challenge from one marauding paceman and a couple of very handy off-siders.
James Taylor has had to put up with a stiff neck after facing just 14 balls from Mohammad Irfan so far, but the England batsman will be perfectly happy if he suffers more of the same at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.
A batsman can respond in one of several ways: either he will play the over carefully, scared stiff of getting out to a part-timer; or he will try to cash in.
At this time, he bowled fast-medium pace, while as a batsman he had developed, in the words of his obituary in The Times, "a rather curious, wristless style; stiff and yet powerful".
The batsman looked dumbstruck.
