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Fairygodmother | 06:54 Fri 14th Sep 2012 | Crosswords
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14a poor player RA?B?T think I have got something wrong!
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The term is certainly used in cricket
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Thanks Factor30, never heard the word used in that context!
"Rabbit
1. a particularly incompetent batsman, who is invariably a specialist bowler. While most lower order batsmen would be expected to occasionally score some useful runs, a rabbit is expected to be dismissed cheaply almost every time. Another term, ferret is used to describe a batsman even worse than a rabbit (named as such because, in the wild, "a ferret goes in after a rabbit."

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