What is Off In the following sentence?
Where can I get some 148 off 71 balls?
Do we mean go off?
What’s its meaning in the dictionary?
In cricket, this is to measure how many runs were scored from a certain number of balls. In his career, he received 70 balls from the fast bowlers and scored 148 runs. His score is higher than the average score of the fast bowlers.
An article on the BBC reads “The captain hammered 17 sixes in making 148 from 71 balls,…”
