sight screen

American  

noun

Cricket.

1. a white screen set in line with the wicket as an aid to the batsman in seeing the ball when it is bowled.

---

Example Sentences

Boland’s first ball McCullum had desposited metres over the sight screen with a huge straight drive.

From The Guardian

Boland’s first ball McCullum had desposited metres over the sight screen with a huge straight drive.

From The Guardian

Yet until McCullum's late and, as it proved, decisive assault, England had done well to peg back the Black Caps after an incendiary, not to say pyrotechnic, start in which the giant flame throwers parked in front of the sight screen at one end belched their dragons' breath skyward at each boundary and came close to incinerating Morgan at one stage as he leant over the boundary boards to retrieve the ball.

From The Guardian

In June 1974 he registered the 100th century to be scored in a Lord's Test match as England crushed India, and back at the ground two months later he held a memorable catch off Pakistan's Wasim Raja, leaping almost to the top of the sight screen at the Nursery End to arrest the ball with one hand.

From The Guardian

The sight screen lit, showing the approaching body clearly.

From Project Gutenberg