cover drive

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Noun

cover drive (plural cover drives)

1. (cricket) A type of shot played by the batsman bringing the bat down vertically and hitting the ball along the ground in the direction of cover.

   With 8 required from 2 balls, Forde hit two back to back cover drives and sealed the game for his team.

Verb

cover drive (third-person singular simple present cover drives, present participle cover driving, simple past cover drove, past participle cover driven)

1. (intransitive, cricket) To play a cover drive shot.