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• Play as one of the pair of batsmen who begin a side's innings.

  ‘Has anyone ever opened the batting, kept wicket and captained in the same Test?’

  More example sentences

  • ‘‘I opened the batting, kept wicket and bowled,’ he says.’
  • ‘Rosalie Birch opens the batting at club and country but is prepared to go in at No. 6.’
  • ‘Curry opened the batting and belted 75 in no time at all.’
  • ‘Bill Brown, who opened the batting for Australia, is the only survivor of that 1934 match.’