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non-striker
noun[ C ]
sports specializeduk /ˌnɒnˈstraɪ.kər/ us /ˌnɑːnˈstraɪ.kɚ/
in cricket, the one of the pair of batters (= the players who try to hit the ball) to whom the ball is not being bowled (= thrown), who stands at the same end of the wicket (= the length of ground between the two sets of sticks) as the bowler:
She smashed the ball back and almost hit the non-striker.
The non-striker should always begin to move down the pitch as the bowler bowls.
The non-striker was very unlucky to be run out when the bowler deflected the well-struck straight drive onto the wicket.
The umpire asked the non-striker to move to the other side of the wicket as the bowler was switching to bowl round the wicket.
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