without troubling the scorers

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without troubling the scorers

1. (informal, cricket) Describing the manner of the dismissal of a batsman who is out without scoring any runs
   • 1890, The Cambridge Review:

     Watson was caught and bowled for a fairly played eighteen, and Jardine again retired to the pavilion without troubling the scorers.

   • 1993, Tom Raabe, Sports for the Athletically Impaired:

     The PE teacher, the putative authority on all things sporting, went out, as they say, without troubling the scorers.

   • 2001, Barry Gibbs, My Cricket Journey:

     Mark Waugh came and went without troubling the scorers, leaving Australia at a perilous 2/16 with one man on the way to hospital.

   • 2003, James P. Coldham, Lord Hawke: a cricketing legend:

     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.