Posted by henry on september 11 2003.
Rubber match origin definition.
Thursday s semi final will be a rubber match between the warriors and second place marauders he captained australia in the home series of 1924 5 winning the ashes by 4 rubbers to 1 scoring 114 and 60 in the first test at sydney.
A rubber match or rubber game is a match where the winner of that match wins the series.
In a three game series tied at one game a piece the third match is the rubber match.
Rubber definition a highly elastic solid substance light cream or dark amber in color polymerized by the drying and coagulation of the latex or milky juice of rubber trees and plants especially hevea and ficus species.
In sports where 2 wins out of 3 games wins the match and after 2 games where each team has won one match the third and decisive game is referred to as the rubber match.
Dead rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches.
Rubber match posted by bruce kahl on september 11 2003.
Somewhat similar to bocce ball the object of lawn bowling is to roll wooden balls across a flat field toward a smaller white ball so they stop as close as possible to the smaller.
Rubber match plural rubber matches a sporting event at the end of a series in which the opponents are tied in terms of events won and lost.
The sporting term rubber match refers to the final and deciding game in any series and traces its origins back to the 16th century english game of lawn bowling.