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/ˈjɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/ · noun
(cricket) A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease..
He bowled forty-seven toe crushing yorkers that resulted in the wickets of 6 batsmen.
I felt rather than saw the next three balls as they whistled around my ears and the last ball was a yorker that could have easily been fired out of a howitzer.
He bowled Neesham, Henry and captain Mitchell Santner with perfect slower-ball yorkers to add sparkle to a superb team performance.
Use yorker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yorker means (cricket) A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease..
Common synonyms include sandshoe crusher, tice.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He bowled forty-seven toe crushing yorkers that resulted in the wickets of 6 batsmen.
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