Idiom
close the face
Meaning
To turn the face of the bat inwards, in order to hit the ball to the leg side.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The batsman closed the face to guide the ball fine.”
“Seeing the fielders on the off side, she closed the face and flicked it to square leg.”
“With the field stacked against him, the veteran batsman calmly closed the face at the last moment, deflecting the rising delivery through midwicket with surgical precision.”
Examples
simple
“The batsman closed the face to guide the ball fine.”
contextual
“Seeing the fielders on the off side, she closed the face and flicked it to square leg.”
complex
“With the field stacked against him, the veteran batsman calmly closed the face at the last moment, deflecting the rising delivery through midwicket with surgical precision.”
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