baggy green

noun

1. the Australian Test cricket cap

2. to represent Australia at Test cricket

Example Sentences

If such tales are catnip down under, any doubts over Stokes' fitness will put a further spring in the baggy green step.

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If India pull off a repeat, they will match Australia's achievement from 95 years ago, when Donald Bradman was wearing baggy green.

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"I was resigned to my goal of getting a baggy green not being there. If it didn't happen, I was OK with that. I was happy with the fact I might just be a good first-class cricketer and would hopefully win some silverware with Tasmania."

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Crawley's 189 at Old Trafford, an unstoppable butchery of baggy green, was one of the great Ashes knocks anywhere, ever.

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Australia opener David Warner says he is "pleased and relieved" to have been reunited with his 'baggy green' cap during his final Test.

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