Meaning & use
wides
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In cricket, deliveries bowled too wide of the batter to be playable, for which the batting side is awarded a run.
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The bowler conceded three wides in a single over.
Extra runs from wides and no-balls decided the close match.
A note on using this word
Wides is cricket terminology specific to the sport's scoring rules, referring to illegal deliveries outside the batter's reach.
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