English Dictionary

nervous nineties

名詞

複数形 複数形のみ

(cricket) The set of individual scores between 90 and 99, when a batsman may play badly due to feeling pressure to convert the score into a century.

日本語の意味

クリケットにおいて、個々の得点が90～99点の範囲にある状態。打者が100得点（センチュリー）に到達するプレッシャーから、普段のパフォーマンスを発揮できずに悪いプレーをしがちな状況を指す。

He froze in the nervous nineties and was dismissed for 98.

彼は90〜99の得点帯で緊張して固まり、98ランでアウトになった。

意味（1）

(cricket) The set of individual scores between 90 and 99, when a batsman may play badly due to feeling pressure to convert the score into a century.

I have never found anything particularly significant in the term nervous nineties for I firmly believe that a batsman should treat every ball on its merits, be his score 9 or 90.