Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈɪn.ɪŋz/
innings (plural innings)
- (cricket) One side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.
- (British) The time during which any party is in possession of power, or enjoying good luck, etc.; a turn of any kind.
- (British, euphemistic) A person's lifespan.
- 1994, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, Sebastian Barker, The London Magazine
- Forty-odd. That's a better innings than Mozart's thirty-five. Only a moderate knock perhaps in an era brimming with space age technology, and transplants, and artificial hips etcet, but still higher than Mozart's.
- 2007, Roger F. Peters, Police Under Pressure: A Donkey on the Edge, Roger Peters ISBN 9780646471051, page 22
- My mother-in-law died at 89 years of age, while sad and as you might expect, we used the phrase “she had a good innings”.
- 2009, Mark Radcliffe, Thank You for the Days: A Boy's Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond, Simon and Schuster ISBN 9781847377166
- He was the first of my grandparents to die but none of them made it much past seventy, although that was very much looked on as 'a decent innings' in early-seventies England.
- 2010, Jacqueline James M P, An Ignoble End, AuthorHouse ISBN 9781452055510, page 79
- You can only say, she had a good innings, so many times. I suppose seventy nine isn't so bad. It's a damn sight more than I can expect.
- 2012, Peter Fitzpatrick, The Two Frank Thrings, Monash University Publishing ISBN 9781921867248, page 523
- Like father, like son. Sixty-eight. Not such a bad innings, really, when the old man was gone at fifty-three.
- 1994, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, Sebastian Barker, The London Magazine
- plural form of inning
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