Definitions
Cricket delivery that lands near the batter's feet.
Word origin
Possibly from 18th- and 19th-century slang phrase "to pull Yorkshire on a person", meaning to trick or deceive them. Compare come Yorkshire over.
Used in a sentence
“He bowled forty-seven toe crushing yorkers that resulted in the wickets of 6 batsmen.”
“I felt rather than saw the next three balls as they whistled around my ears and the last ball was a yorker that could have easily been fired out of a howitzer.”
“He bowled Neesham, Henry and captain Mitchell Santner with perfect slower-ball yorkers to add sparkle to a superb team performance.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Cricket delivery”6 letters
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