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without troubling the scorers

Noun CEFR C2

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Describing the manner of the dismissal of a batsman who is out without scoring any runs

informal

Examples

Watson was caught and bowled for a fairly played eighteen, and Jardine again retired to the pavilion without troubling the scorers.”
The PE teacher, the putative authority on all things sporting, went out, as they say, without troubling the scorers.”
Mark Waugh came and went without troubling the scorers, leaving Australia at a perilous 2/16 with one man on the way to hospital.”
“He was brought down to earth in Georgetown, however, ten days later, suffering the indignity of being run out without troubling the scorers in the victory over British Guiana.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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