A bat held loosely so that the ball falls to the ground immediately when struck.
〔板球〕死棒
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By slowing down, i don't mean he played out entire overs with a dead bat.
Each minute he spent out there, offering a dead bat, ball after ball, he took the team an inch closer to their destination.
He does not believe in offering a dead bat, and tries to manufacture strokes.
In cricket parlance: better to play a dead bat so the ball will drop to the ground and stay there.
Neither Afridi's variations, nor the varied words he let the batsman hear after each ball, seemed to trouble him, and he struck majestic poses in defence, offering a dead bat to virtually everything.