BEAMER

Beamer

In the terminology of the game of cricket, a beamer is a type of delivery in which the ball, without bouncing, passes above the batsman's waist height. Such a ball is often dangerously close to the batsman's head, due to the lack of control a bowler has over high full tosses. Worse, the batsman is expecting the ball to pitch on the wicket and therefore may not pick up the flight of the ball and may be struck by it.

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beamer

Noun

  1. A ball, presumed to have been bowled accidentally, that does not bounce, but passes the batsman at head height.
  2. A device that can project an image through a lens onto a screen with light from a DVD player, television or video recorder.
  3. A BMW.


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