sightscreen
A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.
Noun
- A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.
- The batsman swung and thwacked it behind him over the sight-screens. - 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24:
Origin
From sight + screen.