Nightwatchman (cricket) 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 their eye in', or when the
Origin and use of the term metalloid the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recommended that '[t]he word metalloid should not be used to denote nonmetals' although it was still being used in this sense (around that time) by, for example, the French. In 1969 the classic and authoritative "Hackh's Chemical Dictionary" included entries for both 'metalloid' and 'semimetal'. The latter term was described as obsolete. In 1970 IUPAC recommended abandoning the term metalloid because of its continuing inconsistent use in different languages. They suggested using the terms metal, semimetal and nonmetal instead. Despite this recommendation, use of the term 'metalloid' increased dramatically. Google Ngram