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Cricket, Baseball, and similar games (in Great Britain always in pl. form innings, whether in sing. or pl. sense): That portion of the game played by either side while `in' or at the bat: cf. IN adv. 6d. In Cricket also used of the play of, or score of runs made
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First the article states "each side has two innings." but then the example says "Sri Lanka made 464 in the third innings (of the game)". Perhaps this is correct for one of the variations of cricket but I believe in the essential incomprehensibility of "cricket" and don't want to wade through all the
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American games in the earlier editions? And I'm surprised if the printed edition (what date?) didn't have at least the archaic forms. I could
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I've just tidied this up quite a bit to remove the "offense/defense" terminology from the introductory discussion of what team is batting and what is fielding, since those terms don't apply in the same way for cricket. What I've done should now read correctly for both sports. I've also NPOVed the
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Reference Dictionary (1986) in front of me now, there is no entry for inning. However, I just dug out my Concise Oxford Dictionary (1981) and it does have an entry marking it as an Americanism. So there we
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The information in this section is false. The term is immemorial and the earliest known record of it is dated 1730, as has been the case for a long time. I will rewrite it in due course.
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