cover point

Cricket. the position and the player stationed near the point.

Lacrosse. the position and the player stationed before the point.

Origin of cover point

First recorded in 1840–50

Twelve runs had been scored in the first five balls; there had been a possible run out; a catch had been missed at cover-point.

The Lonely Unicorn |Alec Waugh
Cover-point: the person who stops a ball or the act of stopping it.

Tom Brown at Rugby |Thomas Hughes
Some balls he hit to “leg,” and some he cut with terrific force past “cover-point.”

Parkhurst Boys |Talbot Baines Reed
Then the cover-point hitter, that cunning man, goes on to bowl slow twisters.

Tom Brown's School Days |Thomas Hughes

Then the last man came in, and the first thing he did was to send up a nice little dolly catch to Eric at cover-point.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, December 22, 1920 |Various

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