corridor of uncertainty

noun

1. cricket an area of a wicket just outside a batsman's off stump, so located that the batsman will have difficulty in deciding whether or not to play a ball bowled into it
2. soccer an area of the pitch between the defenders and the goalkeeper, in which it is not clear who should take the responsibility of dealing with a ball played into it
3. any situation in which the right course of action is not clear

Example Sentences

James Ward-Prowse curls a dangerous ball into the Corridor of Uncertainty behind the Norwich defence, forcing Angus Gunn out of his area to head the ball clear.

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Davis whistles an inviting ball along the corridor of uncertainty, but there’s nobody in claret keeping up with him, and Everton can deal with the situation easily enough.

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But suddenly they turn it up a bit, De Bruyne striding down the right and whipping a low ball along the corridor of uncertainty.

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But it was sumptuous all the same; whipped with pace from the right at neck height, the longitudinal corridor of uncertainty.

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Ten more minutes passed when Jason McAteer barrelled down the right and rolled a gorgeous ball along the corridor of uncertainty, teeing up Collymore to force the ball home at the far post.

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