innings

Definition

One side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.

Etymology

From the old verb inn (“to house corn”).

Example Sentences

• "Forty-odd. That's a better innings than Mozart's thirty-five. Only a moderate knock perhaps in an era brimming with space age technology, and transplants, and artificial hips etcet, but still higher than Mozart's."
• "My mother-in-law died at 89 years of age, while sad and as you might expect, we used the phrase “she had a good innings”."
• "He was the first of my grandparents to die but none of them made it much past seventy, although that was very much looked on as 'a decent innings' in early-seventies England."