strike bowler
Definition
Cricket
- noun a ‘frontline’
bowler
who bowls in fairly short spells to anattacking field
, especially with the new ball or to a new batsman, and whose primary function is to take wickets rather than to restrict scoring opportunitiesCitation ‘The emergence within a few days of Frank Tyson as a magnificent strike bowler and his partnership with Brian Statham transformed England’ (John Arlott, WCM September 1984)Citation ‘Hisbowling
had gone fromuseful
-third-seamer
to firecracker strike bowler’ (Simon Barnes, Wisden 2006)Compare stock bowler
