Nightwatchman (cricket) the role up to that time. Nightwatchman (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a nightwatchman is a lower-order batsman who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play. The nightwatchman's job is to maintain most of the strike until the close of play (remaining in overnight, hence the name) and so protect other, more capable batsmen from being out cheaply in what may be a period of tiredness or in poor light at the end of the day, and then again the following morning when the batsmen have not yet ‘got
Origin and use of the term metalloid metals and metalloids, was still regarded as peculiar and potentially confusing. Beach, writing in 1911, explained it this way: In or around 1917, the Missouri Board of Pharmacy wrote that: During the 1920s the two meanings of the word metalloid appeared to be undergoing a transition in popularity. Writing in "A Dictionary of Chemical Terms," Couch defined 'metalloid' as an old, obsolescent term for 'nonmetal.' In contrast, "Webster's New International Dictionary" noted that use of the term metalloid to refer to nonmetals was the norm. Its application to elements resembling the typical metals in some way only, such as arsenic,