The Meaning of Headlines: 'bore out'

The Meaning of Headlines: 'bore out' - sports

Dawn published an article on September 19, 2015, with the headline ‘Australia to ‘bore’ their way to victory in subcontinent: Smith.’ What does ‘bore’ mean? In other words, what is the Australian cricket team going to do to gain victory over Bangladesh?

The first sentence of the article states that ‘Australia must stifle their attacking instincts in the subcontinent and ‘bore’ batsmen into giving up their wicket, captain Steve Smith has said.’ Australian beat Bangladesh 2-0 in 2006 in Australia, but now they will be playing Bangladesh in Chittagong and Dhaka – not Australia’s home turf. So what does bore the batsmen mean?

Does it mean that the Australians will bore their opponents by playing in an ‘unexciting manner’ or playing tediously (as in bored)? Bore can mean many things – it can be the past tense of the verb ‘bear’ and therefore mean: to support, to sustain, to bring, to take, to accept, to produce, to tolerate, to admit, to hold, to spread, to supply, to cause, or to have. For example, she bore two children means she had two children; they bore a grudge means that they held negative thoughts. To bore can also mean to make a hole into something, usually by using a drill. So I am confused.

According to the Free Dictionary, the definition of ‘bore out’ means to drill out, to produce a hole in, or to ‘push other competitors in order to try to get them out of the way’ – and this seems to apply to the article on the sport of cricket. Is the Australian cricket team thinking of ‘pushing’ their competitors ‘to get them out of the way’ – in other words, to get them out (to take a wicket).

The article continues with the Australian cricket captain saying, ‘In Australia you can be a little bit more attacking. In places on the subcontinent you’ve got to find ways to get batsmen out, you might have to bore them out.’ And he explains what he means, ‘So you might have to be more defensive … and when the ball starts to spin and reverse swing, that’s when you can attack … be patient, build pressure and bowl in the right areas.’ Therefore ‘to bore out’ means to push a competitor into making a mistake by being patient and pressuring the opposing batsmen.

Scorecard for the Dawn headline is 98%. The meaning was initially confusing by just reading the headline because it seemed as though the Australian game of cricket was intending to be boring – and that’s not their usual style of game. But if the Australians are going to bore out the Bangladesh team (with an emphasis on out) it makes more sense to me. The headline really pushed me to higher level cognitive functioning – but I bore out – I was patient and pressured into thinking of alternative meanings. So now, the only thing to do is to wait and see if the Australians can bore out the Bangladesh cricket team on their home soil.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1208007/australia-to-bore-their-way-to-victory-in-subcontinent-smith

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