batsman

bat +‎ -s- +‎ -man

• IPA^(key): /ˈbætsmən/

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batsman (plural batsmen)

1. (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
2. (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
   • 2001 June 19, Julia Price, “Julia's Ashes Diary 2001”, in Women's Cricket in Australia -Ashes Tour 2001‎, southernstars.org, archived from the original on 22 March 2015:

     The batsman, Kathryn Leng, (who has played for quite a few years for England) asked the umpire dumbfounded if Charlie was going to bowl with a helmet on.

3. (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
4. (baseball, now rare) A hitter.
5. (aviation, historical) An officer who used a pair of hand-held bats to signal to aircraft as they came in to land on the flight deck.

• The term batsman is applied to both male and female cricketers; batswoman is much rarer.
• In baseball, batsman is rarely used outside of the phrase 'hit batsman'.

• (baseball): hitter, batter
• (cricket): batter (both male and female)

• (antonym(s) of “cricket”): batswoman (female) (when "batsman" is treated as only male)

• (male cricketer): batter (both male and female)
• (cricket): cricketer

• (cricket): batswoman (female) (when "batsman" is treated as both male and female)

• bat

• Bantams, Batmans, bantams, batmans