without troubling the scorers
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (informal, cricket) Describing the manner of the dismissal of a batsman who is out without scoring any runs
- 1890, The Cambridge Review
- Watson was caught and bowled for a fairly played eighteen, and Jardine again retired to the pavilion without troubling the scorers.
- 1993, Tom Raabe, "Sports for the Athletically Impaired"
- The PE teacher, the putative authority on all things sporting, went out, as they say, 'without troubling the scorers.
- 2001, Barry Gibbs, "My Cricket Journey"
- Mark Waugh came and went without troubling the scorers, leaving Australia at a perilous 2/16 with one man on the way to hospital.
- 2003, James P. Coldham, "Lord Hawke: a cricketing legend"
- He was brought down to earth in Georgetown, however, ten days later, suffering the indignity of being run out without troubling the scorers in the victory over British Guiana.
- 1890, The Cambridge Review
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