fieldsman
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fieldsmen
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Tom Screeton works as a senior agriculture fieldsman at Birds Eye looking after pea fields in East Yorkshire.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
He was known for graceful drives to the offside, but was also a deft and twinkle-footed player of spin, and a brilliant cover fieldsman.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2013
Or, he glanced the ball fine to allow the long-leg fieldsman no chance.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2011
He is a brilliant fieldsman, always a good sign.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2010
Wick′et-door, -gate, a wicket; Wick′et-keep′er, in cricket, the fieldsman who stands immediately behind the wicket.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
He is also one of the finest fieldsmen in Australian cricket and the energy he brings to his game is impressive.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2013
Other than smiting a perfectly respectable Tim Bresnan delivery into the stands beyond long-on, he caressed the ball usually square of the wicket on the off side wherever the fieldsmen weren't.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2012
Their pacemen imposed themselves on lesser players; their fieldsmen were ever alert even when the outcome of the match was decided, which was not, of course, until the departure of Kevin O'Brien.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2011
From his outside edge the ball ballooned in the air between the fieldsmen on the off-side.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2010
One individual had gone on with lobs, to the acute delight of everybody except the fieldsmen who had to retrieve the balls and the above-mentioned cow.
From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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