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 Viewer showed a fourfold increase in the use of the word 'metalloid' (as compared to 'semimetal') in the American English corpus from 1972 to 1983. There was a sixfold increase in the British English corpus from 1976 to 1983. As at 2011, the difference in usage across the English corpus was around 4:1 in favour of 'metalloid'. The most recent IUPAC publications on chemical nomenclature (the "Red Book", 2005) and terminology (the "Gold Book", 2006–) do not include any recommendations as to the usage or non-usage of the terms metalloid or semimetal. Use of the term semimetal, rather than metalloid,