footmark

The creases and bowlers’ footmarks have been repaired.

Thirsting for potable water, Felix tramps through mud that leaves glowing, phosphorescent footmarks.

The book still needs what Harriet, as a child, called “footmarks”—not to present incidentally interesting facts but, rather, to provide a basic intelligibility.

The increasingly threatening Lyon was regularly beating the bat, bowling into the footmarks.

It prompts the ground staff to come out to hammer the pitch where the footmarks are for the bowler - not sure if the two events are linked, but we lose a couple of minutes.